Student beliefs on global warming follow party lines (The Lantern) Most Ohio State undergraduate students, regardless of political orientation, believe global warming is happening, according to a recent survey of 3,568 full-time, undergraduate students. However, beliefs about the cause of global warming significantly divide Democrats and Republicans. [News Source]

Bill Clinton in call for ’strong’ climate change bill (Financial Times) The US Congress must pass a "strong" climate change bill before the global warming summit in Copenhagen this December if it is to have a chance of persuading China and India to sign up to a new treaty, says Bill Clinton. [News Source]

Doctors’ health warning on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) Climate change will present the greatest threat to health this century, amplifying the risk of disease, malnutrition and homelessness through floods, drought and rising sea levels, a medical panel said on Thursday. [News Source]

Report: Climate Change Threatens Health (WebMD) A newly released report identifies climate change as the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. [News Source]

Global warming will force dictionary re-write (ZDNet) For most of my life "Glacial (adjective)" has been synonymous with "slow" and "gradual." Get me re-write, it's starting to mean "sudden," and "gone forever." The new poster child for global warming is what was once the world's highest altitude ski spot: the Chacaltaya glacier, at 17,400 ft. in the Andes. No more glacier, no more skiing. The ski resort closed a few years back, now the Bolivian ... [News Source]

Bill Clinton in call for ‘strong’ climate change bill (Financial Times) The US Congress must pass a “strong” climate change bill before the global warming summit in Copenhagen this December if it is to have a chance of persuading China and India to sign up to a new treaty, says Bill Clinton. [News Source]

Global warming may make monsoons harder to predict (SciDev.net) [NEW DELHI] Monsoons will be more difficult to predict in the future because of global warming, researchers have warned. [News Source]

League of Women’s Voters forum addresses global warming (Pickens County Progress) The League of Women Voters of Dawson and Pickens Counties gathered with a panel of experts to discuss global warming and climate change issues at local, state, and federal levels, Saturday. [News Source]

Dozen wavering Democrats hold key to fate of crucial climate change bill. It is one of the few visible growth ­industries of the recession: the lobbying and PR offensive aimed at influencing how, when and even whether Barack Obama moves America towards a new low ­carbon economy. [News Source]

EPA chief says CO2 finding may not ‘mean regulation.’ The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday a finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a public health danger won't necessarily lead to government regulation of emissions, an apparent about-face for the Obama administration. [News Source]

Dozen wavering Democrats hold key to fate of crucial climate change bill. It is one of the few visible growth ­industries of the recession: the lobbying and PR offensive aimed at influencing how, when and even whether Barack Obama moves America towards a new low ­carbon economy. [News Source]