Feb 2, 2008

US mends image in climate change

People's Daily Online, China 
A US-sponsored international climate change conference convened in Hawaii on January 30 and 31. Delegates from 16 nations and 3 international organizations ...
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GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS STARDARDS ESTABLISHED FOR WINE INDUSTRY

SanFranciscoSentinel.com, CA 
BY JAMES LANARAS The state's wineries will soon have a way to measure their greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint under an International Wine ...
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Feb 1, 2008

Japan seeks cooperation with China to deal with climate change

Xinhua, China 
During Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's visit to China last month, the two countries have reached two cooperation agreements on the climate change ...
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Greenhouse-gas emissions on agenda

Arizona Republic, AZ 
... use the opportunity to take stock of last month's talks in Bali, where nations agreed to adopt a blueprint for reducing greenhouse emissions by 2009.
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US Lawmakers Urged to Lead Global Warming Battle

Environment News Service 
Committee chair Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the work of the IPCC "highlights our moral obligation to reduce global warming pollution and ...
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World's big polluters note change in US climate stance

Reuters South Africa, South Africa 
Brice Lalonde, the French ambassador for climate change, noted a shift in the US position, which he said had previously been "a bit lagging" in failing to ...
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Questions abound over greenhouse gas initiative

New Hampshire Business Review, NH 
By Bob Sanders While New Hampshire lawmakers make up their minds about participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the larger states already ...
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Ottawa, Alberta applaud greenhouse gas report

Calgary Herald, Canada 
The study, Use Green Taxes and Market Instruments to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, released by the Conference Board of Canada on Thursday morning, ...
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World urged to help poor adapt to climate change

Reuters UK, UK 
Recognizing that climate change may be hard to reverse, experts are now examining "adaptation," or how to deal with potential catastrophes such as rising ...
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Polluter nations work to refine roadmap for facing climate change

Jakarta Post, Indonesia 
HONOLULU (AP): Delegates from the world's biggest greenhouse gas producing nations on Thursday worked on ways to best combat global climate change.
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Jan 31, 2008

Local students fight global warming

abc7news.com, CA 
By Lyanne Melendez More and more students in America are getting serious about fighting global warming. "Focus the Nation" was a two-day campaign to teach ...
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Hurricane Hysteria Revisited

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By Steven Milloy Will global warming increase hurricane activity? Two studies published in the last week arrived at opposite conclusions.
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Hundreds of Profs Hold Green 'Teach-In'

The Associated Press 
Faculty members from a wide spectrum of disciplines - from chemistry to costume design - agreed to incorporate climate change issues into their lectures on ...
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Bill Clinton Says Slow Down Economy To Combat Global Warming

Anorak.co.uk (satire), UK 
BILL Clinton says that to combat global warming industrialized nations need to: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas ...
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Chinese official urges practical action to slow down climate change

Xinhua, China 
31 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official said here Wednesday that all relevant countries should take practical actions to slow down the climate change ...
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US study concludes major crop losses from climate change by 2030 ...

International Herald Tribune, France 
Because temperature and rainfall are the prime factors that affect crop yield, they analyzed 20 climate change models for those areas and determined that ...
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Time to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions

Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada 
30 /CNW Telbec/ - The time has come for Canada to put a price on greenhouse gases (GHGs) produced by the Canadian economy, the Conference Board argues in a ...
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UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 Trillion

The Associated Press 
That debate is intended to shape overall UN policy on climate change, including how nations can adapt to a warmer world and ways of supporting the UN-led ...
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Study: Global Warming Responsible for Western Droughts

Washington Post, United States 
By Marc Kaufman The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of the mountains of the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and not ...
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Climate on Agenda of Candidates

Wall Street Journal 
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democrats -- support legislation that would gradually cut greenhouse-gas emissions, a sharp departure from the Bush ...
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FACTBOX

Reuters India, India 
They are not the most intense greenhouse gas -- methane is 10 times more powerful in contributing to global warming -- but carbon dioxide from fossil fuel ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions fall in 2006

Reuters UK, UK 
LONDON (Reuters) - Emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases fell 0.5 percent in 2006, final estimates showed on Thursday, an output equivalent to 652.3 ...
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US must lead on global warming

Denver Post, CO 
by Cohen Peart on January 31, 2008 I was relieved to hear President Bush acknowledge the importance of confronting global warming in his State of the Union ...
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Scientists say China's snow storms not climate change

Reuters UK, UK 
By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - Snow storms in China that have killed more than 60 people are not directly linked to climate change, say scientists, ...
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Rise in CO2 emissions predicted

The Press Association 
Definitive figures for the UK's 2006 carbon dioxide emissions published on Thursday are expected to show further rises in the climate change gas, CO2.
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Jan 30, 2008

Japan minister eyes deeper cuts in greenhouse gas

AFP 
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan should look at cutting greenhouse emissions by even more than the 50 percent by 2050 sought by the last Group of Eight summit, ...
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Why state must fight global warming now

Baltimore Sun, United States 
By Paul G. Pinsky and Kumar Barve January 30, 2008 The General Assembly has an opportunity to take real action on global warming.
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Royal Commission into global warming sought

Radio New Zealand, New Zealand 
There are calls for the New Zealand and Australian governments to set up a Royal Commission inquiry into global warming. A group made up of scientists and ...
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If You Believe In Global Warming or Climate Change...

NewsByUs, ID 
Global Warming and Climate Change are economic, political and social fabrications generated by Socialists (read closet Communists) for purposes of economic, ...
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US-sponsored second round of climate change talks kick off in Hawaii

Xinhua, China 
30 (Xinhua) -- The second Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change, sponsored by the United States, opened here Wednesday.
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Senators Fault Delay in Bear Protection

The Associated Press 
The threats to the polar bear "are a harbinger of what the future may look like" under climate change, said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, DN.
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EU bid to freeze out patio heaters

Guardian Unlimited, UK 
However, a climate change expert claims the impact of the patio heater is "minimal". Even if MEPs vote to abolish wasteful energy appliances, the move would ...
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Big firms lack climate change plans

NEWS.com.au, Australia 
LESS than 3 per cent of major Australian firms have implemented a climate change plan even though the Federal Government intends to bring in new carbon ...
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Putting the focus on global warming

San Diego Union Tribune, United States 
By Mike Lee At the University of Rhode Island, students placed 300-pound blocks of ice around their campus and let them melt to symbolize how global warming ...
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Lord Browne calls for climate agency

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Europe's lead on climate change will be key in persuading the rest of the world. "As a global first mover on climate change targets, the EU has the ...
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China and Norway boost cooperation on climate change

Norway Post, Norway 
"It is impossible to deal with the problem of global climate change without China's cooperation. This agreement will give the two countries a platform for ...
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Jan 29, 2008

Giant Teach-In to Focus the Nation on Global Warming

Environment News Service 
PORTLAND, Oregon, January 29, 2008 (ENS) - Global warming is being explored at more than 1500 universities, colleges and high schools across the country ...
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SNP Targets 80% Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction By 2050

EdinburghGuide.com,  United Kingdom 
The proposal for a statutory target to reduce Scottish "emissions" by 80 per cent by 2050 is one of the key components of a consultation on Scotland's first ...
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The American Geophysical Union Warns Again about Global Warming!

Enews 2.0, UK 
Global warming affects all of us, the entire world, and we still can't hear the warnings, we still can't see the signs! In another attempt to make people ...
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Bush's much-maligned climate talks could yet help global-warming ...

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
While Japan is offering a larger check, Mr. Bush's represents "a major landmark in addressing global warming," says Phil Clapp, deputy managing director of ...
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G7 to consider climate change fund: report

AFP 
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan, Britain and the United States are looking to jointly propose the creation of a special fund designed to fight climate change.
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First Antarctic Marine Census Launched

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The work is part of International Polar Year, a global science program designed to advance knowledge of the land and sea environments of the Arctic and ...
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No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming: Now available free online!

Grist Magazine, WA 
No Hair Shirt Solutions to Global Warming, to increase optimism. We not only have the technical capability to phase out fossil fuels over the course of 30 ...
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Focus On Global Warming: High school students lead the way

Traverse City Record Eagle, MI 
BY CYMBRE FOSTER Sixteen-year-old Jack Kerby-Miller was so concerned about the effects of global warming on the planet that he decided to do something to ...
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Global warming awareness events planned around the state

News 10 Now, NY 
NEW YORK STATE -- Many local schools have events planned this week to raise awareness on global warming. Nationally, over 1100 colleges, high schools and ...
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Seeing the positive in Hawaii's climate talks

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Meanwhile, their economies steam merrily along, belching gigatonnes of greenhouse gas in their wake. (China's annual increase in carbon dioxide emissions ...
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City Unveils Plan to Decrease Gas Emissions

Daily Californian, CA 
But this plan keeps a closer goal in mind-a 33 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The plan is only an early step because it does not ...
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Schools join national teach-in on global warming

WCAX, VT 
The event is called "Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America." Syracuse University and the State University College of Environmental Science ...
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Pumping pollution beneath the desert

Globe and Mail, Canada 
Once injected, it is expected that the greenhouse gas will remain sequestered underground indefinitely. The effort is being spearheaded by Abu Dhabi Future ...
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This time, the energy issue is an 'also ran'

Houston Chronicle, United States 
They have called for a law capping greenhouse gas emissions US industry can release, along with a trading mechanism to allow companies to buy and sell ...
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Jan 28, 2008

Bush to commit $2 billion to climate change fund

Reuters UK, UK 
Bush favors voluntary measures and "aspirational goals" to limit climate change. On energy issues, Bush once again called for the United States to cut back ...
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A "Great Leader" on Global Warming

Daily Green 
By Dan Shapley "We will make the United States the great leader and not the great roadblock in the fateful fight against global warming.
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Iraqi Government Tackles Global Warming

New York Times, United States 
... from his lack of body doubles to his lack of weapons of mass destruction. Global warming, it seems, was much lower on the dictator's agenda...
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Climate change was last year's big topic in Davos

BBC News, UK 
In 2007 climate change was the big topic at the World Economic Forum. One year on, is big business acting green? Environmental campaigners call it greenwash ...
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Clark wins UN climate change award

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand 
Prime Minister Helen Clark has won a United Nations award for her efforts to fight climate change. The annual United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) ...
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Nokia joins WWF Climate Savers with key energy initiatives

Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung), Germany 
The targets are part of Nokia's existing Climate Change Strategy. Itscommitment to these has been reinforced by joining the WWF ClimateSavers program, ...
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McCain's Hard Line on Global Warming Scares Old Guard

Daily Green 
Take global warming, for example. The prevailing attitude among the exclusionary set is that if Al Gore and the liberals are worried about global warming, ...
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Greenhouse-gas emission caps urged

Arizona Republic, AZ 
Janet Napolitano calls on Congress to cap greenhouse-gas emissions in a radio advertisement that began airing in Washington, DC, this week and will launch ...
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Polar bears could be weeks from 'endangered' listing

Contra Costa Times, CA 
But officials acknowledge that climate change has led to the loss of vast expanses of polar sea ice, which the bears need. "We need to be doing something ...
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Tony Blair to advise Zurich Financial on climate change

AFP 
ZURICH (AFP) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair will advise Zurich Financial Services (ZFS) on a range of issues including climate change, ...
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Karunanidhi calls for joint effort to fight global warming

Hindu, India 
CHENNAI: Fighting global warming requires a joint global effort, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said. Flagging off a world tour undertaken by two ...
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Jan 27, 2008

Climate change plan criticized

Canada.com, Canada 
The Stelmach government's new climate change plan doesn't go far enough to ensure the province has a sustainable energy future, opposition parties charged ...
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Media consign global warming to back burner

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Of the more than 2900 questions asked, only four have mentioned the words "global warming." "It's stunning," said David Sandretti, the League of ...
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Scientists pinpoint warming forecasts

The Age, Australia 
Moving on from the risk of global warming, scientists are now looking for ways to pinpoint the areas set to be affected by climate change, to help countries ...
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Maldives Builds Barriers to Global Warming

NPR 
We are told that as a result of global warming and sea-level rise, my country, the Maldives, may sometime during the next century, disappear from the face ...
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Premiers meet this week to talk climate-change

Canada.com, Canada 
VANCOUVER -- When British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell hosts Canada's provincial leaders on Monday, he'll be trying to find a climate-change consensus.
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College sets global warming teach-in

Boston Globe, United States 
North Shore Community College already has started making its campus environmentally friendly, but with the two-day National Global Warming Teach-in starting ...
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Iraq ratifies Kyoto Protocol on climate change

AFP 
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq has formally ratified the UN's Kyoto Protocol on climate change, according to a government statement seen by AFP on Saturday.
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Proposed rules would exempt small oil, gas

Canada.com, Canada 
OTTAWA - The Harper government is proposing to exempt up to 10 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution from Canada's upstream oil and gas companies in ...
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Europe to Trade More Greenhouse Gases, Use More Biofuels

Environment News Service 
BRUSSELS, Belgium, January 24, 2008 (ENS) - The European Commission has released a set of proposals to expand the current greenhouse gas Emission Trading ...
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US likely to stand firm on greenhouse gas emissions at summit

Austin American-Statesman, TX 
The US, the world's biggest per-capita emitter of greenhouse gases, did not ratify that treaty. The Hawaii meeting is an important chance for the US to mend ...
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