All eyes on Calif. climate-change fight (USA Today) California, whose economy is larger than Canada's, is the only state that has ordered mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases. With no federal action yet on climate change, the process here is being closely watched. State regulators will consider a host of new pollution controls this month. [News Source]

Global Warming Could Trigger Economic Meltdown (donga.com) Climate change triggered by global warming could cause stagnation, slow economic growth, and rising prices all over the world, according to a recent report by Morgan Stanley. In other words, climate change has become serious enough to make a dent in the world economy. [News Source]

National Survey: In Age of Global Warming Politics, Consumers Dogged by ‘Clueless’ Factor (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) While 63 percent of U.S. consumers agree they are "very concerned" about the effects of climate change or global warming, a wide disparity exists between how greenhouse gas emissions are actually generated and which culprits Americans think are to blame, according to a third-annual national study that evaluates the consumer mindset on energy use and conservation. [News Source]

Centre to focus on climate change (TVNZ) The government has announced a multi-agency assault on dealing with climate change. Nine Crown Research Institutes will work alongside Canterbury and Victoria universities to form the New Zealand Climate Change Centre. [News Source]

Climate change: Less cool nights? (EARTHtimes.org) Global warming might be more evident across parts of the United States, however, in Ohio it's not by warmer days but by less cool nights. A study led by Ohio State University Professor Jeffrey Rogers found average summer nighttime low temperatures in Ohio... [News Source]

Climate change: Less cool nights? (UPI) Global warming might be more evident across parts of the United States, however, in Ohio it's not by warmer days but by less cool nights. [News Source]

Global warming puts winter fashion out in the cold (AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News) SYDNEY (AFP) - The heavy winter coat is not only out -- it may be a thing of the past in Australia as temperatures rise and summers lengthen due to global warming. [News Source]

Global warming puts winter fashion out in the cold (AFP via Yahoo! News) The heavy winter coat is not only out -- it may be a thing of the past in Australia as temperatures rise and summers lengthen due to global warming. [News Source]

Expert: We’re past warming threshold Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another decade, according to a leading Australian climate change expert. [News Source]

‘Global climate change has crossed danger threshold’ (IANS via Yahoo! India News) Sydney, Oct 9 (DPA) The UN climate change report to be released next month will show that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already reached dangerous levels, Australia's pre-eminent conservationist said Tuesday. [News Source]

Wyoming finds its climate change efforts stymied by Washington (Casper Star-Tribune) As one of the largest energy producers in the nation, Wyoming is no stranger to the debate over global warming. [News Source]