US experts, activists slam Bush opposition to climate change bill (AFP via Yahoo! News) US experts and environmental activists on Tuesday slammed President George W. Bush for threatening to veto a far-reaching climate change bill which is before the Senate for debate. [News Source]

Nations discuss cost of global warming fight (USA Today) A tax on airline tickets, an auction of pollution rights, an international climate change bond: These are some of the ideas likely to be thrashed out at a 162-nation conference on raising the billions needed each year to fight global warming. [News Source]

Court-order climate change report issued (North Denver News) In accordance with an August 21, 2007 court order compelling the Bush administration to issue a long-overdue scientific assessment, on Thursday the U.S. Climate Change Science Program released a comprehensive report of the impacts of global warming in the United States. The report, Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States, documents the numerous adverse impacts ... [News Source]

Japanese urged to bathe faster Speedier family baths could help Japanese cut their burgeoning energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a government report said on Tuesday. [News Source]

Army: Sun, Not Man, Is Causing Climate Change (Wired News) The Army is weighing in on the global warming debate, claiming that climate change is not man-made. Instead, Dr. Bruce West, with the Army Research Office, argues that changes in the Earth's temperature are caused by "longer-term solar cycles." [News Source]

All three US candidates are strong on global warming: UN climate chief (AFP via Yahoo! News) UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said on Tuesday the profiles of all three US presidential candidates pointed to a major change in US policies on global warming after George W. Bush leaves the White House next January. [News Source]

Best U.S. Cities for the Global Warming Conscious (The Christian Post) Some of the largest cities in America actually have the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per capita, according to a recent first-of-its-kind study that ranks the nation’s top 100 metro areas based on their climate change-causing ... [News Source]

NATO set to battle global warming threats (MSNBC) NATO must expand its role to prepare for new threats provoked by the impact of global warming, energy shortages and the spread of nuclear technology, the alliance's top diplomat warned Tuesday. [News Source]

NASA watchdog: Politics influenced climate change info (USA Today) NASA's press office "marginalized or mischaracterized" studies on global warming between 2004 and 2006, the agency's own internal watchdog concluded. [News Source]

Global warming: Make sun the first accused! (rediff.com) Brian Bloom, the author of Beyond Neanderthal , which looks broadly at the causes and impact of climate change, says that it could be a mistaken premise. C02 emissions may be exacerbating the global rise in temperatures rather than causing it. [News Source]