Jan 19, 2008

Terrorism, climate change to figure in Manmohan-Brown talks

Hindu, India 
... coordinate the approach of the two countries on reforms of multilateral institutions providing aid to African countries, climate change and terrorism.
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'60 Minutes’ Preempted This Sunday for Global Warming Hysteria

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However, for those that mysteriously don't switch channels after the Chargers-Patriots game, CBS will offer a special about global warming this Sunday ...
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Fund managers are warming to climate theme

Times Online, UK 
What's more, such investors now have a new place to put their money - in the shape of funds that focus on companies providing solutions to climate change.
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EPA turns over redacted documents in Calif. greenhouse gas case

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
Barbara Boxer says the Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to explain why it rejected California's greenhouse gas regulations.
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India to stand up to Brown on climate change

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"We want progress (on climate change) to be made but it has to be in line with our own development priorities." Brown has said he wants to press New Delhi ...
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Icy work may hold key to a brighter future

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
... projects exploring climate change, and is highlighting their stories in a special series to mark the opening of the airlink and the International Polar ...
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Jan 18, 2008

UK's Brown focuses on climate change in China

Reuters UK, UK 
Action on climate change is a priority for Brown, who spent the first day of his visit on Friday telling Chinese officials that Britain would welcome more ...
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Green challenge for new ideas on climate change

Huddersfield Examiner, UK 
But now a ��1m fund to help provide vital backing for ideas to tackle climate change has been announced. The National Endowment for Science, Technology and ...
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Internal EU report casts doubts on its biofuel strategy

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A Commission spokesman downplayed the study and insisted that the use of biofuels remained at the centre of its strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions in ...
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Climate change mitigation study in ‘final stretch'

Engineering News (press release), South Africa 
National statement delivered at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Bali, by Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental.
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Brown visit: Climate change, terrorism on top of agenda

Hindu, India 
The two sides will seek further expansion of economic linkages, collaboration in counter-terrorism and fight against climate change, joint research and ...
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GLOBAL: Space gears up for climate change study

IRINnews.org, NY 
The information is critical, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that by 2020 up to 250 million people in Africa could be ...
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Bear litigation a ploy, say Inuit groups

Nunatsiaq News, Canada 
If polar bears receive the "threatened" designation, they would be the first species to receive endangered species protection due to climate change.
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INTERVIEW-Targets no panacea for climate change-Japan advisor

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But Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Special Advisor to the Cabinet on climate change, said only that Fukuda would present a "positive disposition" at Davos, ...
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HSBC fund seeks firms tackling climate change

Reuters UK, UK 
By Tom Miles HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings launched a climate change fund on Thursday to give investors a chance to turn a threat into an opportunity ...
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Jan 17, 2008

Google philanthropy targets global warming, poverty, and disease

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google's philanthropic arm on Thursday said it is taking aim at global warming, poverty, and pandemics with millions in cash and the ...
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Global warming protest frosted with snow

Baltimore Sun, United States 
A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this morning, but it did not dampen the shouts of about 400 ...
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Australian push for unity on climate change World's biggest ...

The Age, Australia 
CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong will meet the major world polluters in Hawaii this month to try to form common ground on curbing greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Global warming

Helena Independent Record, MT 
Sadly, I voted for presidents Clinton and Bush, both of whom obstructed efforts to curb global warming while there was still a chance to halt or reverse the ...
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Global Warming hot in Canterbury Classic

ThoroughbredNews.co.nz, New Zealand 
By Rob Burnet Global Warming was the winner of the $80000, listed, Canterbury Classic (1100m) at the Sydney Turf Club's meeting at Canterbury on Thursday, ...
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Protesters dog Stelmach in Washington

Edmonton Sun,  Canada 
By DANIEL MACISAAC, SUN MEDIA Premier Ed Stelmach had to put up with protesters and bypass "polar bears" to deliver his message to US policy-makers and ...
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UPDATE 2-Norway says aims to go carbon neutral by 2030

Forbes, NY 
Forests act as a sink for CO2, the main greenhouse gas blamed for causing global warming. Under the Kyoto Protocol curbing greenhouse emissions, ...
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2007 was tied as Earth's second warmest year

Hindu, India 
The greatest warming in 2007 occurred in the Arctic, and neighboring high latitude regions. Global warming has a larger affect in polar areas, ...
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Exploration Of Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctica's Ice Sheet Begins

Science Daily (press release) 
The International Polar Year* project Principal Investigator is Professor Martin Siegert from the University of Edinburgh. He says, "We are particularly ...
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Jan 16, 2008

No bears for oil

Salon 
... the administration can do that is worse for polar bears than oil and gas development in their habitat," says Kassie Siegel, director of the climate, ...
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Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter

The Associated Press 
While states such as like California and New York are moving quickly to address global warming, the issue has prompted only scattered calls for reforms here ...
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US to host climate change talks in Hawaii

Xinhua, China 
16 (Xinhua) -- The Unites States will bring major economies and the United Nations together for climate change talks between Jan. 30 and 31 in Honolulu, ...
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US calls January 30-31 climate talks

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"The two day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining ...
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Sarkozy Calls for EU Taxes, Quotas on Countries That Refuse ...

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PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is calling on the European Union to tax or limit imports from countries that refuse to cap their greenhouse gas ...
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World leaders to discuss climate change, economic uncertainty at Davos

Xinhua, China 
16 (Xinhua) -- Climate change, economic uncertainty, energy shortage and food security are among a series of issues world political and business leaders ...
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Antarctic lake may hold life clue

BBC News, UK 
Professor Martin Siegert, principal investigator on the International Polar Year project that is investigating the lake and head of Edinburgh University's ...
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Warming Climate Accelerated Greenland's Thaw, Scientists Report

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16 (Bloomberg) -- Climate change led to accelerated melting of Greenland's ice sheet during the past half-century, scientists said in a study that adds to ...
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EU to allow Bulgaria 20% increase in greenhouse gas emissions

Xinhua, China 
SOFIA, Jan.15 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission will allow its newest member Bulgaria to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20 percent by 2020 ...
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Jan 15, 2008

UK: Climate Change Impacts Coasts

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LONDON (AP) - Climate change is warming Britain's waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating ...
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Romney Uses Sham Front Group To Slam McCain For Confronting Global ...

Think Progress, DC 
Last weekend, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) previewed some of the right-wing attacks on global warming that will be featured during the ...
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Lifestyle changes can curb climate change: IPCC chief

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The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued last year, highlights "the importance of lifestyle changes," said Rajendra ...
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Mont.: Global Warming Report Questioned

Houston Chronicle, United States 
"I don't think the state of Montana is the cutting edge that is going to fix this global warming crisis, if one exists," Rep. Craig Witte, R-Kalispell, ...
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NASA's mission to Sun's North Pole

Times of India, India 
But this time it is not that polar wind is bottled up, confined to latitudes above 45 degrees," said Posner. Another puzzle has been the temperature of the ...
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Canada Inuit rap US greens for polar bear campaign

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... and the public are looking at this in overly simplistic black-and-white terms as the demise of the polar bear from climate change and sports hunting.
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Nuclear power won't cure climate change: Finnish PM

Reuters UK, UK 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Building more nuclear power plants to reduce global warming emissions is not the way to fight global climate change, Finland's prime ...
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Climate change threatening bird species, RSPB says

Guardian Unlimited, UK 
A new report published today by the conservation charity shows that if climate change is not slowed down, the potential distribution of average bird species ...
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Global warming to impact health

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Rises in temperature produced by global warming could result in an increase in the number of people being admitted to hospital with kidney disease, ...
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Canada needs common greenhouse gas regulations, not patchwork ...

The Canadian Press 
VANCOUVER - A patchwork of carbon taxes and greenhouse gas rules across the country isn'ta good solution to Canada's environmental woes, the federal finance ...
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Biofuels could make matters worse in battle to prevent climate change

Times Online, UK 
The fuels have the potential to help to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change, yet habitats could be devastated, scientists said after ...
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Jan 14, 2008

Glaciers in the Greenhouse: Polar Ice Might Have Little to do with ...

DailyTech, IL 
Doom and gloom aside, one naturally occurring effect of raising ocean temperatures is the shrinking of polar ice caps and glaciers.
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UK's top supercomputer to study climate change

IT PRO, UK 
New Edinburgh-based supercomputer will be using its 60 teraflops to analyse global climate change models. The UK's top supercomputer, the Edinburgh-based ...
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Jan 13, 2008

Antarctic ice sheet shrinking at faster rate

Globe and Mail, Canada 
One of the biggest worries about global warming has been its potential to affect the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet, a vast storehouse of frozen water ...
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GM gives traction to gas from trash

Chicago Tribune, United States 
An Argonne National Laboratory study has concluded that cellulosic ethanol produces 85 percent to 90 percent less greenhouse gas than gasoline, ...
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The price of polluting

Canoe.ca, Canada 
The US won't allow states to have their own plan to reduce greenhouse gases faster than the federal plan. At a news conference, Bush defended the decision ...
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Call for action on climate change

The Press Association 
New statistics showing that last year was the third warmest since records began mean the Scottish Government must take the lead in tackling climate change, ...
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'Green' building policies crucial for reducing greenhouse gases

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
The resulting increased energy efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and the proliferation of the new energy technologies that are being ...
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To beat climate change, breaking the mold isn't enough

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
The initiative is yet another signal of EU determination to tackle the climate change issue. EU governments agreed last spring to cut their greenhouse-gas ...
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