City, county officials brainstorm anti-global warming tactics (The Sacramento Bee) The first Sacramento regional forum on climate change drew nearly 100 area officials in from heavy rain Thursday for a brainstorming on ways to cut global warming emissions locally. [News Source]

City, county officials brainstorm anti-global warming tactics (The Sacramento Bee) The first Sacramento regional forum on climate change drew nearly 100 area officials in from heavy rain Thursday for a brainstorming on ways to cut global warming emissions locally. [News Source]

Panel discusses climate change and Wyoming (Billings Gazette) LARAMIE - As the nation's leading exporter of energy, Wyoming is in a unique position to respond to global climate change, a panel of state officials said. During a University of Wyoming symposium on global warming Thursday, representatives from the g ... [News Source]

President Klaus makes new comments about climate change, do they echo the views of Czechs? (Radio Prague) Czech President Václav Klaus is notorious for his outspoken views on climate change. He calls evidence of global warming “bogus” and ambitious environmentalism "a threat to freedom and economic growth". But now Mr. Klaus is no longer just up against “ambitious environmentalists”. He is opposing the far-reaching measures that the EU has put in place to cut carbon dioxide emissions in the coming ... [News Source]

Climate change could wreck havoc on crops: Study (EARTHtimes.org) WASHINGTON - Some of the world's poorest regions will be hit hard by climate change as crop losses will become the norm in years to come unless urgent action is taken to address global warming, according to new study by researchers at the Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) in Stanford University. [News Source]

Nations work to refine road map for facing climate change (KPUA Hilo) HONOLULU (AP) _ Participants at a climate change conference in Hawaii praised what they saw as a new willingness by the U.S. to discuss possible solutions to fighting global warming. [News Source]

Colleges host ‘teach-in’ on warming

Global warming issues took over lecture halls in colleges across the country Thursday, with more than 1,500 universities participating in what was billed as the nation's largest-ever "teach-in."

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STUDENTS FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Local high school joins national teach-in on global warming (The Patriot Ledger) HINGHAM - Dressed in bright yellow waders, Hingham High School social studies teacher Ron Woolley leaped from tabletop to tabletop, sending paper ‘‘fish’’ flying as he goes. [News Source]

Nations work to refine road map for facing climate change (KHNL News 8 Honolulu) HONOLULU (AP) - Participants at a climate change conference in Hawaii praised what they saw as a new willingness by the U.S. to discuss possible solutions to fighting global warming. [News Source]

Leaders urge action on climate change (The Daily Utah Chronicle) Planting a tree, riding a bike or using mass transit were just a few of the things Salt Lake County mayor Peter Corroon said students can do to combat global warming. Corroon told students last night at an event at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts that there is no one answer to offseting the effects of climate change, but that there are many small things students can do . [News Source]

Teach-in puts focus on global warming (The Kentucky Kernel) Local climate-change issues came to campus yesterday with Focus the Nation, a nationwide teach-in on global warming. More than 1,750 college campuses participated in the teach-in, and 500 UK students participated locally in yesterday's daylong event, said Shane Tedder, sustainability coordinator for UK's Office of Residence Life. [News Source]