Water companies need to adapt to climate change: experts (AFP via Yahoo! News) Water management companies will face huge challenges due to climate change and need to start adapting their strategies, experts warned in Amsterdam on Friday. [News Source]

Pataki to co-chair global warming task force (BizJournals) Former New York state Gov. George Pataki has been named the co-chair of a task force on global warming. [News Source]

Review: Why get so heated about global warming? (San Francisco Chronicle) Break Through From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger HOUGHTON MIFFLIN; 344 PAGES; $25 - - Cool It The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming By Bjorn Lomborg KNOPF; 253 PAGES; $... [News Source]

Westminster project raises global-warming awareness (Sentinel & Enterprise) WESTMINSTER -- Nick d'Arbeloff, one of the 1,000 people trained by former Vice President Al Gore to educate audiences about the science underlying global climate change, will give a presentation at the Westminster Country Club on Thursday, Oct. [News Source]

Vilsack Named to Global Warming Task Force (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids) ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has been named co-chairman of a task force on global climate change. Vilsack was named to the task force for the influential, nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. [News Source]

Science museum to open climate change exhibit (Evening Standard) The new director of the Science Museum has revealed plans for a £6 million climate change exhibition. Professor Chris Rapley will mastermind the show, which aims to deliver real evidence on how climate change is affecting the Earth. [News Source]

Vilsack Named To Global Warming Task Force (KCCI 8 Des Moines) Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has been named co-chairman of a task force on global climate change. [News Source]

Rice says nations must find ways to reduce global warming (Mohave Valley News) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's climate meeting opened Thursday with its main problem on full display: The biggest polluters - industrialized and developing nations alike - say their economies are more important than global warming. [News Source]

Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN (Mail and Guardian) A record number of floods, droughts and storms around the world this year amount to a climate change "mega disaster", the United Nation's emergency relief coordinator, John Holmes, has warned. [News Source]