Greenhouse Effect

Gorkhapatra, Nepal 
Carbon dioxide is one of the major greenhouse gases. This gas contributes to increasing the global mean temperature. The level of carbon dioxide was 270 ppm ...
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Business climate change: Porsche rides to the rescue of London ...

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... and Porsche is acting as a matter of principle, arguing that the charge will be bad for London's business climate while doing little to reduce emissions...
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EU treaty tackles climate change, Ahern

RTE.ie, Ireland 
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that Irish concerns on climate change could be best addressed by a yes vote to the new European Union Reform Treaty.
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Mass extinctions from global warming preventable, panel says

Kansas City Star, MO 
By RENEE SCHOOF What's likely to happen if the world does nothing to combat global warming? The answer from the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel ...
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Fish Perish as Climate Change Disrupts Ocean Systems

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MONACO, February 22, 2008 (ENS) - Climate change is threatening the world's fish populations, already stressed by pollution, alien infestations and ...
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China calls for adherence to Kyoto Protocol, UN convention on ...

Xinhua, China 
"As a precondition of ensuring healthy human development, tackling climate change is today's and tomorrow's basic principle with which we should persist in ...
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Alaska Disputes Polar Bear Threat

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Alaska's elected officials reject climate models that predict a complete summer meltdown of the polar ice cap by 2030 or sooner. ...
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EU's Dimas orders Greece to step up efforts to meet climate change ...

Forbes, NY 
Under the EU's climate package set out last month, Greece is permitted to increase emissions by a maximum of 25 pct on 1990 levels by 2012, but had already ...
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Risk of permafrost thaw a "wild card" in warming: UN

Reuters UK, UK 
MONACO (Reuters) - A thaw of Arctic permafrost is a "wild card" that could stoke global warming by releasing vast frozen stores of greenhouse gases, ...
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Climos enlists plankton, venture funds to fight climate change

CNET News.com, CA 
Ocean iron fertilization, although meant to mitigate climate change, has drawn fire from environmental groups who say the technique is ineffective or too ...
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Now that's global warming

Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia 
EARTH faces a fiery doom inside the sun unless future generations work out how to change its orbit. New calculations by University of Sussex astronomers ...
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Governors Try to Advance Clean Energy

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A greenhouse gas accord signed by 10 Midwest governors in November referred to the region's renewable energy resources like wind, solar and ethanol.
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19000 scientists doubt warming? I doubt that

Baltimore Sun, United States 
After a Maryland state senate hearing on a global warming pollution control bill this week, a business advocacy group sent out a press release with a strong ...
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Switzerland steps up greenhouse gas control efforts

Xinhua, China 
The government now wants a 20 percent drop in greenhouse gases by 2020 - from 1990 levels. This would be followed by the more ambitious goal of 50 percent ...
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Global Warming Solutions Releases Solar Energy Technologies ...

Business Wire (press release), CA 
Global Warming Solutions is currently focused on two areas within its clean energy portfolio of technologies: Solar Energy and Wave Energy.
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Climate change Sour times

Economist, UK 
The sea is becoming more acidic. That is not good news if you live in it EVERY silver lining has its cloud. At the moment, the world's oceans absorb a ...
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Climate change and local government

Economist, UK 
London has set up its own Climate Change Agency headed by Alan Jones, who provided many of Woking's green ideas. It wants to cut London's carbon emissions ...
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Trading Places: A New Carbon Market

Wall Street Journal 
The US market now is voluntary: Companies can buy carbon "offsets" to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions, a market estimated to be worth $100 ...
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Pioneering partnership to tackle climate change

24dash, UK 
A North East council which has gained an international reputation for its work on sustainability is to help develop a pioneering approach to climate change ...
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Climate change resulting in shift to green economies

Times of India, India 
While the impacts of climate change range from the melting of permafrost and glaciers to extreme weather events, UNEP's Year Book 2008 shows that it is also ...
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Brazil Hosts Climate Change Forum

The Associated Press 
... to Cameroon were considering approval of a document demanding "ambitious absolute emission reductions for developed countries" to fight climate change.
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BC taxes greenhouse gases

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
They fear that instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, that industries in poor neighborhoods will pay others to cut their pollution to meet their ...
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Lawmakers gather in Brazil to discuss climate change

Reuters South Africa, South Africa 
"In many countries they are the ones that actually sponsor and enact the laws that may govern any future climate change agenda," she added.
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Legislators from around the world take on climate change in Brazil

The Canadian Press 
... to Cameroon were expected to endorse a document demanding "ambitious absolute emission reductions for developed countries" to fight climate change.
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Climate change threatens human rights of millions

Reuters South Africa, South Africa 
By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) - Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at risk of losing access to housing, ...
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House vote lays groundwork for sweeping climate change action

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
House Bill 2815 lays an important foundation for addressing climate change statewide. It passed the House Monday 64-31, and moves to the Senate for approval ...
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Garnaut calls for deep emissions cuts

The Age, Australia 
The architect of the federal government's climate change policy says Australia should make early, deep cuts in greenhouse pollution and press other nations ...
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Los Angeles spares no efforts to become "green"

Xinhua, China 
It is a priority for the city to combat global warming by reducing dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, city officials said. More than 500 letters went out ...
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O'Malley supports limits on pollution

Baltimore Sun, United States 
"Cap and trade" systems impose financial penalties on businesses that exceed set limits on greenhouse gas emissions, with the money used to reward cleaner ...
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Offsetting Global Warming By Trapping Carbon Dioxide On The Bottom ...

Science Daily (press release) 
"There are a lot of gee-whiz ideas for dealing with global warming that are really silly," remarks Keith, an NSERC grantee and director of the Energy and ...
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UK. Benn announces statutory review of climate change target

BYM News (press release), Spain 
A review of the target to reduce the UK's CO2 emissions by at least 60 per cent by 2050 will become a statutory duty under the Climate Change Bill, ...
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Indonesia, Finland get together on global warming

Jakarta Post, Indonesia 
Indonesia and Finland agreed on Monday to enhance bilateral cooperation in environmental issues to contribute to international efforts addressing global ...
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Climate change focus for councils

BBC News, UK 
The impact climate change is having in four Scottish local authority areas is to be studied to improve their readiness for extreme weather.
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Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Gasoline

New York Times, United States 
And electric cars have typically been limited to a range of tens of miles as opposed to the hundreds of miles that can be driven on a tank of gas.
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Climate change the priority in Tuesday's provincial budget

Canada.com, Canada 
BC finance minister Carole Taylor gave the broadest hint today that Tuesday's provincial budget is going to be putting a big emphasis on climate change.
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Obesity 'as big a threat as climate change'

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Also speaking at the AAAS, leading British expert Prof Philip James called on world leaders to treat the obesity crisis in the same way as climate change to ...
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Prince of wales in European Parliament: "Doomsday clock of climate ...

eGov monitor, UK 
In his address Prince Charles painted a picture of a world where climate change has taken hold. The Prince mentioned melting of the polar ice cap telling ...
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Bill would require California's science curriculum to cover climate

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken numerous actions to reduce global warming, but he has yet to weigh in on Simitian's bill. Other Republicans in the Capitol, ...
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Carbon credit trade to get boost in Us

Commodity Online, India 
Developed countries are bound by the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions between 2008 and 2012 by a collective average of at least 5 per cent ...
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Why are oceans at risk from global warming?

Mongabay.com 
"The vastness of our oceans may have engendered a sense of complacency about potential impacts from global climate change," said Jane Lubchenco, ...
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Will nations build on climate change momentum of 2007?

The New Nation, Bangladesh 
Last year, three major reports from the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change covered the science of global warming, its potential effects, ...
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One more step in the climate debate

Malaysia Star, Malaysia 
Last week, the United Nations General Assembly held its first debate on climate change after the historic Bali conference. Another step forward, but the ...
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Texas Tops in Greenhouse Gas Reduced by Efficient Buildings

Environment News Service 
This was enough for Texas to lead all other states in the most greenhouse gas reductions from Energy Star buildings, the US Environmental Protection Agency, ...
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China: Rich `culprits' on Climate Change

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The whole world must take action to confront climate change, but developed countries have a "historical responsibility" to do much more because their ...
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State moves to cut emissions

Bizjournals.com, NC 
State agencies, vehicles and buildings produce enough greenhouse gas emissions -- what many scientists believe is the leading contributor to global warming ...
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California Lawmaker Wants to Make Global Warming Part of School ...

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A California state lawmaker wants to require public schools to teach global warming in all science classes, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury ...
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