Sep 6, 2008

Shun meat, says UN climate chief

BBC News, UK 
Transport, by contrast, accounts for just 13% of humankind's greenhouse gas footprint, according to the IPCC. Dr Pachauri will be speaking at a meeting ...
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Jason and the secret climate change war

Times Online, UK 
So-called climate change "sceptics" have spent years disputing almost every aspect of the scientific consensus on the subject.
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Is Global Warming Worsening Hurricanes?

TIME 
Rather than focusing on scary symptoms, the We Campaign focuses on the cure for global warming - and motivates people to support sweeping change.
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Will Sarah Palin's Energy Wisdom Be Contagious?

Right Side News, GA 
... efforts to protect polar bears. Demonstrating her wisdom, however, she also maintains that we must favor grounded science over trendy climate alarmism.
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AbsolutePunk.net, OR 
We needed votes to add the polar bear to the endangered species list. (I know, I know, that polar bear rug would really bring the room together!).
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‘Climate change not manmade’

Howrah News Service, India 
And environmentalists are describing Ms Palin, who denies climate change is manmade, as "either grossly misinformed or intentionally misleading".
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National report points to builders as leaders in green initiatives

Vancouver Sun,  Canada 
Ironically, Kenward was calling to give me some information on the release of a report by CHBA entitled The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Performance of ...
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Climate-change measure warms outlook for cities

Record-Searchlight, CA 
Could California's battle against climate change breathe new life into downtown Redding? It sounds far-fetched, but that could be the end result of a new ...
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WisBusiness Audio: Global Warming Task Force luncheon

Wisbusiness.com, WI 
The governor's Global Warming Task Force finished its work in July, producing a raft of recommendations to cut carbon dioxide emissions in Wisconsin 22 ...
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McCain mum on environment, climate change

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
It used to be that McCain's bipartisan work combating global warming was a point of pride for the GOP senator. That was before he selected VP candidate ...
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Palin: the real scandal

Independent, UK 
As a result, she is suing the Bush administration, which ruled the polar bear is endangered and needs protection. The US Geological Survey says climate ...
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Sep 5, 2008

Sarah Palin's record on environment is abysmal

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
Polar bears. This summer, Palin filed suit against the Bush administration over the federal listing of polar bears as threatened, saying that her opposition ...
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Greens tops, Tories flops in Sierra Club climate-change report card

CBC.ca, Canada 
Under cap and trade, government limits how much greenhouse gas polluters are allowed to emit. Those who reduce their emissions below the cap receive ...
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A Climate for Change

Washington Post, United States 
Now he updates and expands this diagnosis by showing how population growth, climate change and the expansion of the world's middle class are producing a ...
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nOt thE lAtEst nEwS—sQuAre-DoWn eDitiOn

Gather.com, MA 
Some have suggested increased oil drilling as an option to reduce polar bear populations. However, this solution is based on suspect climate models and the ...
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Forget the Press Coverage: Conflicting Reports on Rising Oceans ...

Discover Magazine, NY 
Climate scientists have long predicted that global warming will melt polar ice sheets and cause sea levels to rise throughout the century, ...
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In-Convention Truth: An Energy Primer

Outside Online, CA 
1) Drilling - The Republicans plan includes exploring for and extracting more oil and natural gas at home, including the outer shelf. 2) Greenhouse Gases ...
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A unified convention

Manila Bulletin, Philippines 
... cited as failures of the Bush administration: Unilateral foreign policy, a perilous dependence on imported oil, and lack of interest in climate change.
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Best bet to turn the White House green?

Reuters 
Both favor curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that spur climate change. Both say they want to stop US "addiction" to imported oil.
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Sep 4, 2008

Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US

The Associated Press 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in ...
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Forum Promotes African Climate Change Projects

Voice of America 
Carbon emissions have been identified as a major factor in climate change. The Kyoto Protocol, the environmental pact aimed at reducing climate change, ...
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Outpacing climate change with atmospheric research collaboration

EurekAlert (press release), DC 
Now, two research institutions are working together to tackle the role of aerosols in climate change -- specifically how aerosols from pollution, ...
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Global warming A changing climate of opinion?

Economist, UK 
Global warming may make their northern wastes more habitable and allow them to exploit oil and gas located under what is now an ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
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Petascale Climate Modeling Heats Up

Science Daily (press release) 
Their interactive ensembles for weather and climate modeling are now being applied to one of the nation's premier climate change models, NCAR's Community ...
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The Carbon Tax Failure

mySteinbach.ca, Canada 
Mr. Dion and his Liberal colleagues had 13 years to live up to their commitments to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution. They failed and emissions ...
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Paying the climate change bill

Financial Times, UK 
How much will it cost the European Union to fight global climate change? Clearly, the answer depends on what your target is, how you propose to get there, ...
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Environmentalists can't corral Palin

The Associated Press 
Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
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Focus Turns to Palin Record

Wall Street Journal 
Her administration has announced its intent to file suit challenging the recent federal listing of Alaskan polar bears as a threatened species, ...
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Sep 3, 2008

Statement by Achim Steiner in response to Hurricane Gustav and the ...

ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland 
And while the earthquake in Sichuan Province, China cannot be laid at the climate change door many of the others are in line with the scientific predictions ...
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Study: Climate change likely made storms even stronger

Houston Chronicle, United States 
The intensity change was equivalent to about 5 mph for the strongest storms. "I think this makes the argument much more compelling that climate change is ...
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UN climate chief urges more African engagement inclimate change talks

Xinhua, China 
3 (Xinhua) -- Africa is the continent hardest hit by climate change yet benefits least from the current international climate change regime, ...
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Palin's Brief Record Shows Good Luck, Timing

Insider Advantage Georgia, GA 
In making the decision to oppose the polar bear listing, Palin acted against the advice of scientists in the state Department of Fish and Game who were ...
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Featuring the next generation of energy ideas

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Both are Senators who say they'd like to reduce US reliance on foreign oil, fight global warming, and cap greenhouse gas emissions with increased focus on ...
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Sarah Palin- An awful record

MWC News, Canada 
Palin opposes the endangerment listing of polar bears (Palin is suing the Interior Department on Alaska's behalf in reaction to the Feds' decision to list ...
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Republicans Work to Reconcile McCain’s Climate Change Position ...

Red, Green, and Blue, CA 
One of the most notable differences is McCain's position on climate change viz. the Republican Party's traditional position (McCain is in the minority ...
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Nature Reports Climate Change

Nature.com (subscription), UK 
The Greenland ice sheet is something of a wild card in predictions of future climate change. If it melted entirely, it could raise global sea levels by an ...
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Garnaut has the answer to climate change

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Top government adviser Ross Garnaut thinks he's found the answer to tackling climate change: trees. The man charged with designing Australia's response to ...
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Palin questions global warming science

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
... the bears on "a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts".
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North pole ice cap now an island

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
The ice is a habitat for polar bears, who could face extinction as it melts. Two weeks ago nine polar bears were spotted swimming far from the shore in ...
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Experts: 'Global Warming Heat Stress' Threatening Nations

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CANBERRA, Australia - Climate change is likely to first hurt developing countries which could become almost too hot to successfully grow essential crops, ...
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Warming connection to storms stirs debate

Columbus Dispatch, OH 
By Spencer Hunt The growing number of tropical storms and hurricanes this season is reviving the debate over whether global warming contributes to wicked ...
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Dutch to take new measures against global warming

Malaysia Star, Malaysia 
... its recommendations Wednesday for how the Netherlands must strengthen its water defenses to combat global warming's potentially devastating effects.
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Global warming likely to stoke more powerful hurricanes: Study

Business Standard, India 
Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, a study released today says. An additional one degree Celsius in sea ...
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Palin on the Environment: Far Right

TIME 
When the Department of the Interior in May listed the polar bear as a threatened species due to warming-an action that could interfere with drilling in ...
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McCain, Palin Put Energy at Top of Agenda, Papering Over Rifts

Bloomberg 
He and Obama both support a carbon- emissions trading program to reduce global-warming pollution. McCain also says he will encourage development of ...
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Nelson maintains stand on climate change

The Age, Australia 
Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has maintained his view that climate change is not the cause of the problems in the Murray-Darling Basin.
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Ellesmere Island loses huge ice shelf

Canada.com, Canada 
... Roberta Bondar Fellow in Northern and Polar Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont. "These changes are irreversible under the present climate ...
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Sep 2, 2008

Palin on Higher Ed, Earmarks and Science

Inside Higher Ed, DC 
Alaska last month filed suit against the federal government for its decision, based on climate change and shrinking sea ice, to list the polar bear as a ...
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Climate change and land use planning presentations in Clemson ...

Greenville News, SC 
As the Upstate continues to experience rapid growth, it is imperative that policymakers and community leaders take the pressing issue of climate change into ...
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The Shiny Copper Plenny Plan for Energy and Cleantech

Cleantech Blog, CA 
Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. [I'm very pro this, but Obama's plan is the high cost ...
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Can We Tell Much From Palin's Environmental Record?

The Plank on TNR.com, DC 
After the Bush administration's Department of Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species in May, the governor sued the department.
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Younger voters are suspicious of the GOP

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN 
Evolution is a theory, just like global warming is. Over 30000 scientists have signed a petition denouncing the global warming theory.
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Brendan Nelson criticised for denying climate change

The Australian, Australia 
BRENDAN Nelson was yesterday accused of being "blissfully immune" to the effects of climate change after he said the crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin was ...
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Shadow falls over solar panels

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
It recommends the states get out of greenhouse gas abatement altogether, leaving the Federal Government to rationalise existing programs after emissions ...
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Global warming 'happening faster than predicted'

Metro, UK 
Humans may have to attempt planet-scale engineering of the climate because global warming is happening faster than experts have been predicting, ...
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Climate Change Bill attacked in Parliament

National Business Review, New Zealand 
Climate Change Minister David Parker told Parliament today the Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) was robust and thoroughly prepared, ...
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Political winds are blowing

Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT 
If the answer to the first is yes, the answer to the second may very well be global warming, a subject that's dear to the hearts of Democrats but one that ...
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Thawing permafrost likely to boost global warming, says study

Xinhua, China 
The relatively rapid warming now under way is bringing the organic material back into the ecosystem, in part by turning over soil, said the researchers...
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Aussie expert slams Japan whaling study

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
The study was published in science journal Polar Biology using research on 6779 whales, of which more than 4500 were killed, including pregnant mothers.
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Sep 1, 2008

Climate 'hockey stick' is revived

BBC News, UK 
Critics of the idea of man-made climate change argue that conditions 1000 years ago were as warm as, if not warmer than, they are today.
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Kingsnorth protest: Activists to use climate change as defence for ...

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Greenpeace climate change activists who scaled one of Britain's tallest power station chimneys, causing ��30000 damage, were accused in court yesterday of ...
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Is MoveOn.org Really MorOn.org?

WEBCommentary 
... cycles of Arctic sea ice melt in the long history of climate. Routinely, pictures of polar bear are cropped to make it appear that they are in distress, ...
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Global warming greatest in past decade

EurekAlert (press release), DC 
... and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data derived from tree-ring records, the warming is anomalous for at least 1700 years.
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Convention notes #3: Palin pick a brilliant stroke

renewamerica.us, DC 
Under her governorship, Alaska has sued the federal government for listing the polar bear as an endangered species. The feds' position plays to the silly ...
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Coastlines remain intact, despite climate change: study

Economic Times, India 
SYDNEY: Preliminary research from the windswept coast of southern France suggest that world's coastlines remain largely intact despite climate change.
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Africa: The Climate Change Threat, Women's Livelihoods At Stake

AllAfrica.com, Washington 
The threat climate change poses to human existence is enormous as participants who attended the United Nations Talks on Climate Change in Accra noted.
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Global warming: Sea level rises may accelerate

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Climate scientists are uncertain how susceptible ice sheets are to global warming, largely because they have never witnessed one disappear, so researchers ...
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Climate change threat to Japanese Zen gardens

Times Online, UK 
Now the failure of the second is threatening the first as accelerating climate change eats away at Kyoto's ancient heritage. Temples across the city, ...
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Next US president tipped to lead on climate change

International Herald Tribune, France 
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told Australian business leaders she welcomed commitments by both US Democrat candidate Barack Obama and Republican ...
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Global warming's toasty water connection to Gustav

The Associated Press 
"Yes, climate change is impacting hurricanes," Landsea said. But the effect on storm intensity now is "very small," something that can't be noticed in a ...
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Aug 31, 2008

Palin comparison

Grist Magazine, WA 
After the Bush administration's Department of Interior listed the polar bear as a threatened species in May, the governor sued the department.
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A savage force of nature – and mounting evidence they are becoming ...

Independent, UK 
One obvious question is whether Gustav is the result of rising sea temperatures associated with global warming. The simple answer is that it is virtually ...
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Hurricane Gustav: Fuzzy science confounds predictions

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Last year's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said it was "likely" that global warming would make future cyclones more ...
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Calif. bill would tie land use to carbon emissions

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The goal is to help California meet the emission mandates spelled out in a wide-ranging greenhouse gas reduction law passed two years ago. At the same time, ...
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Palin, polar bears and the presidency

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
"The state takes very seriously its job of protecting polar bears and their habitat and is well aware of the problems caused by climate change," she wrote.
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Ban warns of climate change crisis

Swissinfo, Switzerland 
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for speed in drawing up a new global pact to address the impending climate change crisis.
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Palin and Global Warming [Jonathan Adler]

National Review Online Blogs, NY 
Palin does not believe in manmade global warming, pointing to a NewsMax interview in which she said: "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than ...
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Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection

Washington Post, United States 
It says projects in Alaska should not be subject to special scrutiny because of the polar bear's status. Kassie Siegel, climate program director for the ...
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Palin Fought Polar Bear Protections

ABC News 
... in federal court recently, charging it was too accepting of climate change studies which overstated the phenomenon's impact on polar bears.
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Palin Not Convinced on Global Warming

Washington Post, United States 
By Matthew Mosk and Juliet Eilperin Some scientists believe Alaska will be among the first to feel the impact of global warming, but Sarah Palin told voters ...
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