Judge tosses Calif global warming suit (AP via Yahoo! News) A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world's six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming. [News Source]

Judge Tosses Global Warming Lawsuit (AP via Yahoo! Finance) A federal judge on Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed by California that sought to hold the world's six largest automakers accountable for their contribution to global warming. [News Source]

U.S. judge kills Calif. suit citing car makers for global warming (USA Today) California's landmark lawsuit seeking to hold automakers responsible for global warming was dismissed today by a federal judge in San Francisco, who also said that keeping the challenge alive would threaten U.S. foreign policy. In a rebuff to Attorney General... [News Source]

U.S. Climate Change Science Program Making Good Progress In Documenting And Understanding Changes, But Study Of … (Earth Observatory) Climate change research directed by the federal government has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, says a new report from the National Research Council. [News Source]

Drew Carey on the cutting edge of climate change (USA Today) Drew Carey, in his stand-up act in the early 90s, joked that the winters in his hometown of Cleveland were so cold that he would stand outside spraying from an aerosol can in order to induce global warming. While CFCs... [News Source]

New Method of Studying Ancient Fossils Points to Carbon Dioxide As a Driver of Global Warming (PhysOrg) A team of American and Canadian scientists has devised a new way to study Earth's past climate by analyzing the chemical composition of ancient marine fossils. The first published tests with the method further support the view that atmospheric CO2 has contributed to dramatic climate variations in the past, and strengthen projections that human CO2 emissions could cause global warming. [News Source]

Global warming art exhibit opens in Calumet (Daily Mining Gazette) HOUGHTON — As temperatures have climbed and water levels have dropped, a slew of artists, scientists and educators from the upper Midwest have collaborated on a project showing the effects of climate change, as well as possible solutions. [News Source]

Climate change tops future humanitarian challenges: Annan (AFP via Yahoo! News) Former UN chief Kofi Annan warned Monday that climate change was likely to be the most urgent humanitarian challenge in the future, highlighting some one million people hit by recent flooding in Africa. [News Source]

President Klaus criticized for planned U.N. speech on climate change (Radio Prague) President Vaclav Klaus has been criticised by a number of Czech politicians for a speech he is going to deliver at a conference on climate change held by the Secretary General of the U.N. in New York. While some say Mr Klaus should not express his personal opinions on the matter but rather the official position of the Czech Republic, others fear that his speech might harm Czech prospects of ... [News Source]

Professor: Global warming a danger to Va. (The Daily Times) WACHAPREAGUE -- The lecturer at a recent Virginia Institute of Marine Science seminar on global warming is better known for his research into oyster distribution and the invasion of the Atlantic coast by a large predatory Asian mollusk. [News Source]

One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax (Addict 3D) In the debate over global climate change , there is a yawning gap that needs to be bridged. [News Source]