Aug 23, 2008

Choice of Biden as VP candidate praised overseas

International Herald Tribune, France 
AP ACCRA, Ghana: From confronting Russia to dealing with climate change, Barak Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential candidate ...
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Editorial: Greens' dilemma the price of being our climate conscience

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand 
The fact is - the dwindling band of dissenters notwithstanding - that the pace of climate change is outstripping the human race's response to it.
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Ski towns canary in climate change coalmine-SF Fed

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CHICAGO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Property values in US ski resorts could be a test case of how the economic effects of climate change will vary by region, ...
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Climate change adaptation policy sped up

Environmental Data Interactive, UK 
Recent floods have prompted the government to speed up the publication of its climate change adaptation strategy. Minister for the environment John Gormley ...
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India global warming hot-spot: UN study

Press Trust of India, India 
New York, Aug 23 (PTI) A UN study, that examined possible consequences of global warming in the next 20 to 30 years, has identified India as one of the ...
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Aug 22, 2008

McCain's veeps on climate change

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Mitt Romney: He has become the front-runner in the VP speculation game, but just seven months ago Romney was slamming McCain's climate change bill as a "job ...
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'Sneaky' Bush Attack on Endangered Species Angers Conservationists

Environment News Service 
... it cannot be used to limit greenhouse gas emissions although it is the warming climate that is destroying the sea ice needed for polar bear survival.
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Polar bear sightings stir climate debate

Los Angeles Times, CA 
Federal wildlife monitors spotted nine polar bears in one day swimming in the open ocean off Alaska's northwest coast -- prompting environmental groups to ...
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Climate Change Could Be Impetus For Wars, Other Conflicts, Expert Says

Science Daily (press release) 
22, 2008) - Hurricane season has arrived, sparking renewed debate regarding possible links between global warming and the frequency and severity of ...
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Global warming isn't just hot air

Vancouver Courier,  Canada 
Here is a quote from the AP article that Wilson cites: "Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down ...
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Multiple Polar Bears Discovered Swimming Many Miles from Alaska Coast

MarketWatch 
"As climate change continues to dramatically disrupt the Arctic, polar bears and their cubs are being forced to swim longer distances to find food and ...
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Business Council evading responsibility on climate change: ACTU

ABC Online, Australia 
She says business needs to put forward proposals explaining how it will adapt to climate change. "We're concerned that there's no responsible business voice ...
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Californians wary of costs of going green: survey

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Sullivan says the group wants the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining a strong economy. Continued.....
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Aug 21, 2008

Watch the Petermann Crack Get Bigger

io9, CA 
This image was made by Ian Howat, with the BYRD Polar Research Center, showing the crack growing over a period of 7 years. Once the crack gets just a little ...
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Melting Arctic Ocean opens new shipping frontier

The Associated Press 
The same ice is vital to survival of polar bears, which are the first species declared as threatened because of climate change. Snow also thaws much earlier ...
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EPA Proposes CO2 Regulations, Seeks Comments from Public

The Heartland Institute, IL 
The Court ruled the Clean Air Act (CAA) authorizes EPA to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions if and only if EPA determines they cause or ...
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Calif. law to fight global warming

abc7.com, CA 
SACRAMENTO (KABC) -- A ground-breaking law would make California the leader in America's fight against global warming. The nation's first law to control ...
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Global warming threatens ‘boulder bunny’

Fair Home, UK 
According to the groups filing the lawsuit, the future survival of the pika is threatened by global warming. Protection for the pika is being sought under ...
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Legislature takes aim at urban sprawl and global warming

Los Angeles Times, CA 
A bill calling for financial incentives to target greenhouse gases would be the first in the nation. By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ...
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Group says climate resolutions increase

Economic Times, India 
Shareholder resolutions related to climate change more than doubled over the past five years, according to statistics gathered by a coalition of public ...
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Letter: Climate change-alternative energy

Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands 
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been discredited in recent years, particularly in the last two years. In fact, there is nowhere ...
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Aug 20, 2008

2008 Freedom Award Honors Al Gore and Diane Nash for 'A Climate of ...

FOXBusiness 
In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for "efforts to build up and disseminate ...
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Regional carbon market will have a limited effect on cleantech ...

VentureBeat, CA 
As the Chicago Climate Exchange began trading in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on Friday, considerable doubt remained about whether the ...
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Climate negotiators reconvene this week in Ghana

The Associated Press 
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Negotiators meet here this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the ...
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Tropical Storm Fay and Computer Models

WEBCommentary 
Would you put much stock in a theory (anthropogenic global warming, AGW) that observations have refuted? Would you put much faith in a theory (AGW) backed ...
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UN climate talks seek quicker pace

Reuters UK, UK 
... sluggish talks on a new climate treaty and plug big gaps in a "vision" of leading industrial nations of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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Birds can't keep up with climate change: study

AFP 
"The flora and fauna around us are shifting over time due to climate change," said lead author Victor Devictor, a researcher at the French National Museum ...
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African leaders need insight on climate change – DFID

Joy Online, Ghana 
An expert on climate change on has said even though climate change has grave implications for the cocoa, water, mining and food production sectors of ...
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Thinking outside the square finds light in oven

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
"I love working with passionate people who want to help address climate change and poverty" ��� Nicole Kuepper yesterday. FOR her 10th birthday, ...
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Climate Change and Business Conference

Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand 
I'm going to take this opportunity to outline National's climate change policies, and to discuss our intended approach to the global climate change ...
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Aug 19, 2008

Warm up to change

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
It's easy to see climate change as a bad news story. Rising sea levels, a hotter and drier Australia, dying coral reefs, salinity in the Murray-Darling ...
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Ban Pledges Support for Pacific Islands Over Climate Change

Bloomberg 
20 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations will create a climate change center to help Pacific island nations threatened by rising seas because of global warming, ...
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American Pika -- The Rabbit Cousin That Hates Global Warming

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
The American pika, a furry relative of rabbits and hares with a squeaky call, is getting pushed out of its mountain home because of global warming, ...
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Nuclear power on Nelson's agenda

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Three weeks ago, his deputy leader, Julie Bishop, raised it in the context of tackling climate change and yesterday, the Liberal frontbencher and the former ...
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How Global Warming and the Ozone Hole Parch the Southwest

Daily Green 
By Dan Shapley The spring is getting hotter and drier in the already hot-and-dry US Southwest, and the changes are due to global warming and ozone depletion ...
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New US president will help climate change fight: Australian PM

AFP 
Rudd signed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change as soon as he came to power last year, leaving US President George W. Bush as the only leader of a major ...
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Rudd urges US action on climate change

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has urged the United States to take more action on climate change and become more involved in debate on the global ...
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Extreme anti-environment Cheney aide up for top Energy Department ...

Think Progress, DC 
Hutto is also deeply opposed to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from cars. As one energy official described in July: "He [Hutto] would talk, ...
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Africa meeting key step in climate talks

Economic Times, India 
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that even deeper cuts worldwide may be needed to stave off potentially catastrophic ...
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Australian PM urges more US climate change action

The Associated Press 
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States on Tuesday to take more action on climate change and become more ...
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Aug 18, 2008

Water and Climate Change

World Bank Group, DC 
August 18, 2008-Water and climate change is one of the standing issues to be discussed at this year's World Water Week, whose focus is on sanitation in ...
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Rudd to attend climate change meet in NZ

ABC Online, Australia 
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is in New Zealand today to attend a climate change conference and meet his New Zealand counterpart.
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Ragweed season: Climate change will have an impact, researchers ...

The Canadian Press, TORONTO 
In a paper published this month in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Weber said there's evidence that climate change will have an impact on ...
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Part 3: The rush for oil

Vancouver Sun,  Canada 
"Our company has created a unique sea-export system which makes it possible to transport large quantities of oil to Polar regions," boasted Vagit Alekperov, ...
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Maasai 'can fight climate change'

BBC News, UK 
Africa should make more use of the skills of its nomadic peoples to help combat the challenges of climate change, the aid agency Oxfam says.
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Global Warming, the Arctic Thaw and the New Cold War

Daily Green 
Global warming is the chief driver of the record melt in the Arctic last summer, and the general downward trend in ice coverage in the last 30 years.
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New eco-sciences precinct to focus on climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
(ABC TV) Climate change will be a key research area at Brisbane's new eco-sciences precinct to be built by 2011. Work is about to begin on the $280 million ...
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US exchanges launch cap and trade CO2 contracts

Reuters 
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) comprises 10 northeastern states and may be a precursor to a federal US carbon market, something both ...
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FWC to Address Wildlife and Climate Change

Chipley Florida Online Newspaper - Foster Folly News, fl 
Climate change experts and fish and wildlife scientists will huddle together in Orlando next week to discuss the future of Florida's fish and wildlife and ...
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The sacrifice-free election strategy

Salon 
The underlying message is that global warming and an Obama presidency will spur the biggest jobs program since Franklin Roosevelt's WPA.
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Aug 17, 2008

Return of the native oak helps birds to survive climate change

Times Online, UK 
Garden birds are being protected from the effects of climate change by an alien tree, researchers have found. Turkey oaks were introduced to Britain in the ...
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The climate of security

GulfNews, United Arab Emirates 
By Joseph S. Nye While US President George W. Bush has begun to acknowledge the risks of global climate change, his administration failed to lead on the ...
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