Climate change campaign turns to fuel (North County Times) First, California lawmakers targeted the cars we drive in their campaign to curb global warming. Then they turned their attention to the power plants that produce our electricity. [News Source]

Joe Biden: Face global warming or global conflict (Salon.com) The presidential candidate says failing to address climate change would lead to new wars and a changed U.S. military. [News Source]

Global warming melts Arctic ice 20 years early (The Mercury) A RAPID rise in the rate that Arctic ice is melting has opened the Northwest Passage, the sea route from Europe to Asia, at least two decades earlier than scientists monitoring the effects of global warming had expected. [News Source]

Czech President Klaus visits Zeman, discuss climate change (České noviny) Prague- Czech President Vaclav Klaus visited former prime minister Milos Zeman in his countryside house in south Moravia this afternoon and they discussed climate change, for instance, Zeman has said. [News Source]

Charlie Pedersen: Unsung heroes of climate change (The New Zealand Herald) Two reports from the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit at Lincoln University prove that New Zealand farmers should be regarded as climate change heroes, rather than the villains some critics make us out to be. [News Source]

Climate change campaign turns to fuel (North County Times) First, California lawmakers targeted the cars we drive in their campaign to curb global warming. Then they turned their attention to the power plants that produce our electricity. [News Source]

Immediate Action Crucial To Tackle Affects Of Global Warming, UN Official Warns (EuropaWorld) A senior United Nations official called this week for action not only to tackle the causes of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also to cope with its effects such as the increasing vulnerability of agriculture, which places developing countries especially at risk. [News Source]

Climate change topic of Oxford lecture (Clarkston Eccentric) Kingsbury Country Day School in Oxford will kick off its annual Environmental Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, with Dr. Kathryn Savoie, who will speak on the impact and implications of global climate change. Savoie is a member of the board of directors of the Michigan Environmental Council and serves on the Wayne County Global Warming Task Force. She has been working in the ... [News Source]

God: The new weapon against climate change (New Scientist) Leaders from world religions gather in Greenland to show unity on the problem of global warming and to pray for the planet [News Source]

Monk’s notes show climate change (Baltimore Sun) Old personal records hold clues to patterns of global warming A librarian at this 10th-century monastery leads a visitor beneath the vaulted ceilings of the archive past the skulls of two former abbots. [News Source]