Nov 17, 2007

UN plea to act over global warming

Radio New Zealand, New Zealand 
The report says human activity is causing rising temperatures and that deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, ...
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World on the verge of climate 'catastrophe': UN chief

Times of India, India 
Ban noted recent acceleration in the melting of glaciers and polar ice, and pointed out that the collapse of an at-risk Antarctic ice shelf could raise sea ...
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OPEC SUMMIT Saudi Arabia earmarks 300 mln usd for climate change ...

Forbes, NY 
RIYADH (Thomson Financial) - Saudi arabia is to put aside 300 mln usd to fund research into climate change research, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah told ...
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Saving the planet starts here - maybe.

Euronews.net, France 
The un's 130-nation meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has ended in Valencia with the adoption of what it believes is a conclusive ...
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Duke Energy headquarters blockaded in opposition to new coal plant

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In what appears to be a recurring phenomenon in North Carolina, angry polar bears have once again descended on a notorious climate criminal to disrupt their ...
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UN Panel Reports Rising Seas, Melting Arctic Ice Evidence of ...

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It declares that climate systems unquestionably have already begun to change. The evidence is in the measured warming of air and ocean temperatures, ...
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US delegates say dangers of climate change unclear

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States believes there is no clear scientific definition of the dangers of climate change although it recognizes urgent action ...
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Glaciers a barometer for climate change

TVNZ, New Zealand 
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research says the most obvious signs of climate change in New Zealand are in the South Island.
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Brown determined to tackle urgent climate challenge

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LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown said tackling climate change was an urgent challenge, following Saturday's report on global warming by a ...
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Edwards, Clinton Aim at Climate Change

The Associated Press 
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called on the United States and China - the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - to do more to fight it.
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Humanity responsible for global warming

Radio Netherlands, Netherlands 
It warns that the effects of global warming could be abrupt and irreversible. Mr Ban said the ipcc's worst scenarios resemble a science-fiction film but are ...
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UN climate panel report highlights risks of global warming

Xinhua, China 
MADRID, Nov.17 (Xinhua) -- The UN climate panel issued a landmark report on Saturday warning of severe consequences of global warming and urging governments ...
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Climate Change to Create Scenes from a Science Fiction Film

Deutsche Welle, Germany 
The new IPCC report makes clear that global warming is a man-made phenomenon and is already taking place. It warns of catastrophic and unavoidable ...
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Delay In Autumn Color Caused By Increased Carbon Dioxide Not ...

Science Daily (press release) 
To date, this has been explained by global warming, with increasing temperatures causing longer growing seasons. However, while a strong correlation has ...
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UN secretary-general praises report warning of global warming ...

WLOS, NC 
Ban says the potential impact of global warming is "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action will do." The un's Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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The new Arctic cold war

Toronto Star,  Canada 
Theoretically, a polar meltdown could shut down the ocean "conveyor belt" that brings warm water into the North Atlantic and moderates the climate of Great ...
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Global warming reports miss facts

Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL 
If Earth is supposed to be warming due to large increases in mankind's usage of fossil fuels during the past 30 years, why wasn't 2006 or 1998 warmer than ...
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Court Throws Out Bush Fuel Economy Standards

Environment News Service 
"This ruling is a big help in holding the Bush administration accountable for its refusal to accept the realities of global warming and forcing it to start ...
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Global Warming: China says: Et Tu?

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
As world leaders prepare to meet in Bali next month to shape the next international treaty to fight global warming (the Kyoto Protocol will expire in 2012), ...
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Nov 16, 2007

Putting a lid on global warming

Salt Lake Tribune, United States 
Plans call for pumping carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, into mile-deep rock formations under Carbon County for long-term ...
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Poll: Montanans taking global warming seriously

Helena Independent Record, MT 
More than half of Montanans consider global warming a serious problem, according to a new poll released Friday, while fewer than a quarter dismiss the issue ...
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Birds, fleas - even elevated trees add to global warming

Redlands Daily Facts, CA 
He also attributed global warming to sun spots, claiming that sun spots, along with Pacific and Atlantic oscillations have such great influence on global ...
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Climate change department faces £300 million cuts

Guardian Unlimited, UK 
The government department spearheading the fight against climate change is planning an emergency package of at least ��300m of cuts covering key ...
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Rocklin enrolls in pg&e's 'carbon neutral' program

Bizjournals.com, NC 
Rocklin's new solar-paneled police station will help the Placer County city curb greenhouse gas emissions. The fast-growing city is the first municipality ...
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Critics praise Xcel's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Rocky Mountain News, CO 
Environmentalists used words such as "innovative" and "precedent setting" to describe Xcel's announcement this week that it plans to cut its greenhouse gas ...
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Governors Sign Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord

North American Windpower 
by NAW Staff on Friday 16 November 2007 Nine governors and the Premier of Manitoba have signed the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord at ...
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Global warming's trillion dollar debate

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The battle will likely be pitched and the stakes high as each side of the global warming debate says the other's plan will cost the global economy trillions ...
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Fighting climate change is pricey, farmers are told

Salt Lake Tribune, United States 
Randy Parker, the farm bureau's chief executive officer - and a member of the governor's Blue Ribbon Advisory Council on Climate Change - said studying the ...
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Aid Workers: Climate Change, Rising Prices Threaten Africa's Food ...

Voice of America 
By Kari Barber Humanitarian officials warn that climate change along with higher food prices and growing populations are threatening food supplies in Africa ...
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UN maritime agency to intensify work on greenhouse gas emissions

UN News Centre 
Mr. Mitropoulos spoke of the increasing importance and urgency given by the international community to the control of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and ...
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World greenhouse gas emissions rising faster

NEWS.com.au, Australia 
By Brian Williams WORLD greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster and impacts on oceans and the atmosphere are worse than scientists thought.
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'US greenhouse gas emissions to accelerate in next 50 years'

Earthtimes, UK 
New York, Nov 16 - Even as it leads the clamour on global warming, the US will find its greenhouse gas emissions growing faster in the coming half century.
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World Responsible Tourism Day of colossal significance says polar ...

Travel Daily News International, Greece 
They are archives of climates of the past; they are regulators of our climate today and they also provide an early warning system.
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Sceptics' week: Your comments

BBC News, UK 
Climate is easier to predict than weather, so why does John Christy keep implying the opposite? Polar melt has accelerated, so why does Christy keep saying ...
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Climate Change Document Completed

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VALENCIA, Spain (AP) - Working until dawn, negotiators on Friday concluded a policy guide for governments on global warming that declares climate change is ...
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US States Sign Global Warming Pact

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Washington is running out of excuses to act on climate change. That's the message from the Midwest, where governors from nine states in the region, ...
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Forests damaged by Katrina may contribute to global warming

Hindu, India 
This increase in carbon emissions can enhance global warming in what is termed by scientists a "positive feedback mechanism." Increased carbon dioxide warms ...
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9 Midwestern states join with Schwarzenegger on global-warming plan

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
Arnold Schwarzenegger lauded an agreement Thursday that brings nine states in the US heartland in line with his fight against global warming - his 11th such ...
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Ottawa short of targets, energy board warns

Globe and Mail, Canada 
The greenhouse gas would be permanently sequestered in the oil formations. With the construction of the pipeline, the NEB estimates that carbon-capture ...
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Uganda: Climate Change Youth Lead the Way

AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Climate change will be the lead theme of the CHOGM Youth Conference, which was officially opened by President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday.
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Climate change fuelling water crisis

NDTV.com, India 
South Asia will be particularly affected by water shortages due to global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned.
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Governors Pushing Caps on Greenhouse Gases

New York Times, United States 
"Now it's time for Congress to act by capping greenhouse gas pollution." In an interview, Governor Huntsman said, "With just weeks left in the legislative ...
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Countering climate-change challenge

China Daily, China 
Developed countries should take more responsibility to mitigate climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions and offering technical aid, Zheng said...
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Ski areas catch wind of global warming

USA Today 
By Laura Bly, USA TODAY During a recent campaign speech in Portsmouth, NH, presidential candidate Barack Obama warned his audience that "global warming is ...
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Nov 15, 2007

Coalition to launch health policy

The Age, Australia 
Their argument was that the northern ice cap was melting due to climate change and with it the polar bear's home. "Shut up," shouted one of Ms mckillop's ...
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Midwest governors sign climate change accord

Reuters 
... countries in implementing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol's mandatory caps on emissions, instead emphasizing voluntary approaches to tackle climate change.
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Ballard Power Systems Inc. and Plug Power Inc.: Fuel Cell Products ...

CNNMoney.com 
Running this data through the US Climate Technology Cooperative Gateway Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator (www.usctcgateway.gov/tool/) shows that by ...
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Consumer power is the main driver for greener companies

e-Travel Blackboard (press release), Australia 
Hadow hopes to conduct and exploration to find out when the polar ice cap will melt. The ministers met at a Summit on Tourism and Climate Change and agreed ...
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US, others at odds on UN climate wording

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Other delegates countered that nothing was reversible about the extinction of species or the melting of polar ice sheets, as the scientists predict in some ...
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Bipartisan global warming forum

San Diego Union Tribune, United States 
... barred from running for president, but has indicated he hopes to influence the 2008 debate by calling attention to global warming and other issues...
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Ten Midwestern Leaders Sign Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord

Wisbusiness.com, WI 
Within the next year, Governors and other participating jurisdictional leaders will establish targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions and complete ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions outstrip UN worst-case estimates

Inquirer, UK 
By Paul Hales: Thursday, 15 November 2007, 3:41 PM CLIMATE WATCHING Aussies say the real rate of greenhouse gas emissions is far-outstripping the un's ...
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OPEC wins praise for global warming stance

AFP 
RIYADH (AFP) - OPEC, the cartel that pumps 40 percent of world oil, won praise on Thursday for tackling the subject of global warming at its summit here, ...
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Schwarzenegger To Put His Jet On Global Warming Registry

Los Angeles Times, CA 
And the champion of environmental controls to curb global warming pumps far more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than an ordinary citizen, by far.
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Climate change Green protectionism

Economist, UK 
FOR those (such as this newspaper) who argue that the only way to avert dangerous climate change is to set a price on CO 2 emissions, what's going on in ...
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Opec mulls $3bn climate change fund

Times Online, UK 
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is discussing the creation of a $3 billion fund designed to tackle climate change by investing in ...
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Tourism hit by climate change fears

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
The Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources is commissioning a study into how Germans and Britons feel about climate change.
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Britain publishes world first climate change bill

Xinhua, China 
15 (Xinhua) -- The British Parliament on Thursday published the Climate Change Bill, the first of its kind in the world, setting out a framework that will ...
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Uganda: Climate Change in the Commonwealth

AllAfrica.com, Washington 
CLIMATE change is the main topic on the agenda of the Youth Forum, which started yesterday. The Commonwealth, which represents one quarter of the world's ...
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Arctic ocean currents shown to affect polar climate more than ...

TG Daily 
Coordinating out of the University of Washington and their Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory in Seattle, director James Morison's team used a ...
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Granholm forms council to cut greenhouse gases

Crain's Detroit Business, MI 
Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday announced the creation of a council that will develop recommendations for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that ...
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Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions grow

Minnesota Public Radio, MN 
The announcement comes as a new report shows that greenhouse gas emissions from Minnesota and the rest of the Midwest continue to grow despite reductions in ...
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GOP Looks to States for Pollution Solution

U.S. News & World Report, DC 
James Sensenbrenner, ranking member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. In a hearing today featuring Govs.
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Global warming skeptic speaks to students

Colgate University News & Events, NY 
By disproving scientific statements regarding the negative impacts of climate change, he attempted to show that global warming poses no imminent threat.
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International Polar Year lights fire of discovery

Space Ref (press release) 
While the central theme of the IPY involves studying the polar regions in the context of climate change, the effort ranges across most disciplines and ...
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Global warming not to blame for warmer North Pole?

Register, UK 
... lead researcher based at the University of Washington's Polar Science Centre Applied Physics Laboratory. "While some 1990s climate trends, ...
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Nigeria: FG Will Tackle Climate Change -Yar'Adua

AllAfrica.com, Washington 
The Federal Government will take effective action to confront the challenges of global climate change on the Nigerian environment, President Umaru Musa ...
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Climate change bill published

Reuters UK, UK 
LONDON (Reuters) - The government published its Climate Change Bill on Thursday, starting a parliamentary process that could lead to a legal limit on ...
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Global warming 'threatens the existence of the travel industry'

Travel Weekly UK, UK 
Tourism leaders joined United Nations officials and Government ministers demanding the travel industry wakes up to global warming.
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Krebs: Recycling missing from global-warming legislation

Ventura County Star, CA 
Missing in all of the legislation, however, is any recognition of the value of recycling in combating global warming. One vital addition: enabling ...
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Governors Join in Creating Regional Pacts on Climate Change

New York Times, United States 
The advertising campaign is underwritten by Environmental Defense, an advocacy group that is pressing for quick action on a climate change proposal ...
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Korea to Start Carbon Credit Exchange Next Year

Chosun Ilbo, South Korea 
Korea isn't on the Kyoto Protocol list of countries obliged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but it will almost certainly be in 2013.
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Global warming sizzling at a red-hot pace

The Age, Australia 
THE latest scientific research indicates global warming is happening faster than recent United Nations reports projected, while China and India's rapid ...
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Bush Aide Denies Wanting Testimony Cut

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The president's science adviser said Wednesday he recommended some changes in global warming testimony by the head of the Centers for ...
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Regulatory Uncertainty Ends Plan For Fla 'Clean Coal' Plant

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NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Citing uncertainty surrounding future greenhouse gas rules in the US, a consortium of power companies on Wednesday canceled plans to ...
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Hot air over gas count

Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand 
In fact, eating less beef and fewer dairy products would not necessarily cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to Mick Keogh, executive director of the ...
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Growth In US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Predicted To Accelerate

Science Daily (press release) 
14, 2007) - US greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, even with technological advances and ...
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Nov 14, 2007

Australia, the world's biggest greenhouse gas culprits

LIVENEWS.com.au, Australia 
Australian power stations pump out more greenhouse gases per head than anywhere else on Earth. For the first time the carbon emissions produced by the ...
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Tas pollies almost agree on climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
In State Parliament, the Tasmanian Government has voted in support of a Greens motion on climate change after re-wording it. The Greens introduced a motion ...
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Climate change 'worse than thought'

ABC Online, Australia 
An independent climate change report has found pollution's impact on global warming is worse than previously predicted. The University of Melbourne study ...
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Howard harassed by three bears

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Their argument was that the northern ice cap was melting due to climate change and with it the polar bears' home. "Shut up," one of Ms mckillop's supporters ...
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Skeptics of global warming address legislative committee

Kentucky.com, KY 
By JOE BIESK AP Writer A state legislative committee heard from skeptics Wednesday seeking to debunk the notion that global warming is a looming threat to ...
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Global warming may reduce cod stocks to Arctic

Canada.com, Canada 
Global warming and overfishing may yet defeat the Atlantic cod, a fish that so far has managed to survive even an ice age 21000 years ago.
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Napolitano: Global warming real, caused by humans

Bizjournals.com, NC 
Janet Napolitano says global warming is a real threat being caused by "human activities" and could result in Dust Bowl-type droughts in Western states.
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Boxer agrees to slow down global warming legislation

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
Barbara Boxer agreed on Tuesday to take more time to work through complex global warming legislation amid concerns over the possible economic impact of ...
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How Not to Repeat the Mistakes of the Kyoto Protocol

YaleGlobal Online, CT 
Under the agreement, however, Canada must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent below the 1990 level through 2008-2012, and in 2005 Canada's ...
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Florida CFO mandates climate change disclosures for state investments

Bizjournals.com, NC 
The goal is to safeguard tax dollars from the risks posed by climate change and to encourage companies to capture opportunities related to the changing ...
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Albertans not blamed for greenhouse gas: poll

Edmonton Journal, Canada 
EDMONTON - Albertans may feel like national scapegoats when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, but a new poll shows only two per cent of Canadians say ...
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Uma Thurman and Tommy Lee Jones to co-host Nobel concert

AFP 
The 2007 Nobel Peace prize was awarded jointly to Gore, author of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
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Balancing act on energy and climate, but at least the USA and ...

ic Wales, United Kingdom 
The UK's determination to adopt a leadership position in relation to tackling climate change is well known, and it is frequently to the fore of the ...
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UN chief discusses climate change with Zapatero in Madrid

International Herald Tribune, France 
The prime minister's office said the two would discuss the expected results of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting this week in the ...
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Be bolder on climate change, ALP told

The Age, Australia 
KEVIN Rudd has been urged to be bolder in his climate-change and water policies after announcing three new funds promoting clean energy.
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Researchers See Reversal in Arctic Patterns

Wired News 
... Climate A team of climate researchers has discovered a reversal in circulating Arctic Ocean currents that indicates some of the polar region's recent ...
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Greenhouse gases: proof we are up with the worst polluters

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
"We know that this works for other forms of pollution and we believe it can work for greenhouse gas emissions, too. We expect that institutional and private ...
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Brit politician blames babies for global warming!

Zee News, India 
London, Nov 14: A top British Liberal Democrat has proposed a solution to combat global warming - put a full stop on babies. Chris Davies has warned that ...
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BC set to miss targets for emissions cuts, group says

Globe and Mail, Canada 
"There remains a yawning gap between the [greenhouse-gas] emission reduction targets that BC has established, and what we are currently on track to achieve ...
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WWF rejects lone stance on greenhouse gas

ABC Regional Online, Australia 
The environment group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has rejected suggestions that Australia should go it alone in tackling greenhouse gas emissions.
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A scientist's take on global warming

Napa Valley Register, CA 
By JEFFREY P. SCHAFFER John Stephens' piece on global warming ("From amcan to Greenland, take action on warming," Oct. 24) outdoes Al Gore's "Inconvenient ...
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Global warming plans more fantasy than science

Stockton Record, CA 
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., delivered a speech in the Senate last week in which she linked global warming to the San Diego wildfires, Darfur, the imminent loss ...
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California fighting global warming with technology, greenbacks

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
California is leading the way in the fight against global warming as its investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into green technology ...
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Nigeria: Preventing Climate Change Calamity in Nigeria

AllAfrica.com, Washington 
The latest evidence shows that the danger of human-induced climate change is not only real but also intensifying. And the developing world can no longer ...
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Saudi Arabia seeks positive role in tackling climate change

Guardian Unlimited, UK 
Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, said his country had signed up to the Kyoto protocol and was as interested as any other in tackling climate change but ...
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Experts warn climate change will bring disease

Jakarta Post, Indonesia 
Umar said climate change would inevitably affect the two main health determinants of human population and environment. "One of the most obvious effects of ...
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Satellite 'sentinels' to help track climate change

CNET News.com, CA 
European project that will monitor different climate elements in Europe from space aims to help fight climate change. By Tim Ferguson A European project to ...
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Government input to climate change summary makes it harder to ...

The Canadian Press 
The United Nations climate change report expected to guide policy-makers with the most up-to-date assessment of the problem is being heavily influenced by ...
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Climate change bill expected on Thursday

Reuters UK, UK 
By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - The government is expected to publish its Climate Change Bill on Thursday, starting a parliamentary process that could ...
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Global-warming gases to rise by 57 percent by 2030

Daily Times, Pakistan 
Emissions of greenhouse gases will rise by 57 percent by 2030 compared to current levels, which will increase the Earth's surface temperature by at least ...
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Plan to Cut Jet Pollution Is Approved in Europe

New York Times, United States 
Europe has imposed similar emissions limits on other industries for several years in search of steep reductions in its greenhouse gas production.
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Nov 13, 2007

Counties warned to reduce greehouse gas or go to court

Inside Bay Area, CA 
Earlier this year, Brown sued San Bernardino County, alleging it did not adequately consider greenhouse gas emissions when updating its general plan.
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Climate change conference opens in Maldives

Xinhua, China 
The Foreign Ministry of the Maldives said in a statement that the conference will attempt to broaden the traditional climate change debate by focusing on ...
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Challenges to Both Left and Right on Global Warming

New York Times, United States 
The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. By Bjorn Lomborg. Alfred A. Knopf. 272 pages. $21. Excerpt By Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple.
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So just where does America's CO2 come from?

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
It's been said US buildings contribute something like half of greenhouse gases (50 percent). This blog item mentions meat contributing 18 percent.
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Aussies warned about higher energy bills

The Age, Australia 
"Almost all of the cost increase of greenhouse gas mitigation policy interventions will be passed forward to consumers as higher prices," Professor ...
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The gas is always greener

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
It has been estimated that the average household with electric appliances such as a stove, water heater and heating, creates 7.66 tonnes of greenhouse gas ...
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Whirlpool Corporation Ahead of Schedule to Reduce Greenhouse Gas ...

Earthtimes, UK 
In 2003, Whirlpool became the first appliance manufacturer to announce a global greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target, with a goal of reducing emissions by ...
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Conservation Council welcomes bus, climate change funding

ABC Online, Australia 
"Also a commitment to keep moving this one forward, we want to see constant improvements to the public transport system as a response to climate change and ...
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Scientists and Government Officials Open Conference on Final ...

ABC News 
It is the fourth and last report issued this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace prize.
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Gold Coast to become first climate change hub

ABC Online, Australia 
The federal Environment Minister has announced Australia's first climate change adaptation facility will be based on the Gold Coast.
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Govt blind on climate change: farmers

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Australia's farmers have delivered a scathing review of the coalition's agriculture policy, saying it lacks vision on the crucial areas of climate change ...
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Gore has a new ally against global warming

Los Angeles Times, CA 
He is the chairman of Alliance for Climate Protection, a Palo Alto- based foundation that works to find policy solutions to global warming.
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LIPI to address climate change

Jakarta Post, Indonesia 
20 to 22 to address chief issues on climate change. LIPI chairman Umar Anggara Jenie said the quadrennial congress, to be held in Mercure Convention Center, ...
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Nov 12, 2007

UPDATE: BP May Miss 10-Year Greenhouse Gas Targets - Document

EasyBourse.com, France 
By Benoit Faucon Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON -(Dow Jones)- BP PLC (BP) may not meet its 10-year greenhouse gas emissions objectives, with its goals per ...
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UN chief praises Brazil on climate change policies

AFP 
BRASILIA (AFP) - UN chief Ban Ki-moon praised Brazil's commitment to fighting climate change and poverty Monday in a meeting with President President Luiz ...
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Multilateral action urged to takle effects of climate change at UN ...

Xinhua, China 
12 (Xinhua) -- Some 450 experts from 130 countries, present at the 27th Inter-Government Climate Change Group Plenary (IPCC), a United Nations conference ...
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Polar bears in danger? Is this some kind of

Times Online, UK 
Sooner or later that bodes ill for humans who live there, as well as polar bears. "Natural cycles in the climate are dwarfed by what we are doing to it.
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James Bone in Eduardo Frei Montalva Base, Antarctica

Times Online, UK 
Scientists welcomed Ban Ki Moon to Antarctica with a glass of Johnny Walker Black Label served "on the rocks" with 40000-year-old polar ice.
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Health Toll Of Climate Change Seen As Ethical Crisis

Science Daily (press release) 
12, 2007) - The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the ...
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Celebrities For Climate Change: Polar Bears Kill

Anorak.co.uk (satire), UK 
WITH actress Joanna Lumley learning us in ways of farming and animal husbandry, the Sun calls upon impressionist Alistair McGowan to talk about polar bears.
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eu's Barroso says Bali conference 'crucially important' in climate ...

Forbes, NY 
Speaking in Rome, Barroso said it is 'vital' that EU leaders use Bali to launch serious negotiations on a post-2012 agreement on fighting climate change.
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Robots deployed to measure climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
Guy Williams) An international group of oceanographers have finished deploying the last robot that will allow them to observe the effect of climate change ...
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EU chief urges India and China to help cut greenhouse gas emissions

Earthtimes, UK 
Rome - Europe must take the lead in cutting environmentally harmful greenhouse gas emissions, but developing giants such as China and India must also do ...
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Maine AG Rowe Joins California Lawsuit To Win Approval For ...

All American Patriots (press release), Sweden 
"Maine has adopted a policy designed to combat climate change by controlling greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles sold in this state.
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"Greatest Scam in History" is Global Warming, Says Weather Channel ...

ShortNews.com, Germany 
According to John Coleman, creator of the US cable station The Weather Channel, global warming is "the greatest scam in history.
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Skeptics raise doubts on global warming

Arizona Republic, AZ 
The issue of global warming has stirred passions not unlike the battle over evolution, similarly dragging scientists into the political arena to defend ...
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Couple kick off walk from Vancouver to San Diego with climate ...

The Canadian Press 
... A couple from Vermont kicked off a trek to San Diego on Sunday, surrounded by a dozen supporters, in a quest to raise awareness of climate change.
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Nov 11, 2007

Tasmanians rally against global warming

ABC Online, Australia 
Hundreds of people have rallied in Tasmania as part of the national Walk Against Warming. The rallies have been held in about 60 locations across the ...
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