Sep 20, 2008

Financial crisis: Lehman misses out on carbon credit scam

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Advised by some of the world's leading global warming activists, such as Dr James Hansen and Al Gore (a close friend of the firm's erstwhile managing ...
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Greens blast Climate Change Bill

The Press Association 
The Greens have warned that they wanted to see a tougher Climate Change Bill from the SNP administration. Scottish Green Party leadership contender Patrick ...
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A carbon-tax-fuelled recession: Nothing but hot air?

Globe and Mail, Canada 
Climate scientists say Canada should be prepared to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions - caused by burning fossil fuels - by 25 to 40 per cent below 1990 ...
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Great on climate change, but not much else

Globe and Mail, Canada 
It gets one major policy largely right - the importance of tackling climate change with economic tools by taxing carbon emissions - but then overestimates ...
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Sep 19, 2008

Cool discovery lifts global warming outlook: researcher

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When it melts, some experts fear it will quicken the pace of global warming significantly. But the discovery of a cone-shaped wedge of subterranean ice near ...
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Daley and his environmental crew unveil the Chicago Climate Change ...

Examiner.com 
... of commissioners of relevant departments like Transportation, Water, and Environment, unveiled the Chicago Climate Change Action Plan at Shedd Aquarium.
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Paulson takes on China and climate change

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In August, Treasury hired William "Billy" Pizer, a Harvard-trained economist and climate change specialist, as a treasury official to coordinate energy and ...
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The coal conundrum

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
If the technology proves economical, effective and safe, it will be a potent tool in our armoury for combating climate change. The FutureGen project was ...
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Tällberg Forum: Panel on Climate Change

WorldChanging 
Because we have already committed ourselves to a certain amount of climate change (temperatures have already risen about a degree, he says), and because the ...
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Feist, Martha Wainwright among artists on climate change ...

The Canadian Press, TORONTO 
... will be among artists and scientists on board a ship headed to Greenland this month in an expedition that will study the effects of climate change.
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Abrupt Climate Change Research Gears Up in Bush's 11th Hour

Daily Green 
... among six national laboratories and other private universities to study one of the most concerning aspects of global warming: Abrupt Climate Change.
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Australia to fund greenhouse gas capture institute

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria 
Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have been blamed for global warming. The institute would also help the Group of Eight industrialized nations _ the ...
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Chicago Tackles Climate Change

Chicago Public Radio, IL 
And it contains an ambitious plan to confront climate change. Scientists have been cooking up predictions for years about how climate change will affect the ...
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Reckless disregard: McCain and Palin's misplaced allegiance

Salt Lake Tribune, United States 
Indeed, by their enthusiastic embrace of increased fossil fuel exploitation in the face of disintegrating polar ice packs, the Republican ticket ...
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Sep 18, 2008

UN chief appoints two new envoys on climate change

Xinhua, China 
As president of the General Assembly's 62nd session, which ended on Monday, Srgjan Kerim chaired three thematic debates on climate change, and also served ...
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Bosses urge climate change action

BBC News, UK 
A number of UK business leaders have called for "urgent and comprehensive" measures from the main political parties to tackle climate change.
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Abrupt Climate Change Focus Of US National Laboratories

Science Daily (press release) 
18, 2008) - Abrupt climate change is a potential menace that hasn't received much attention. That's about to change. Through its Climate Change Prediction ...
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City task force unveils plan to cut greenhouse gas

Clout Street - Chicago Tribune Blog, IL 
A task force appointed by Mayor Richard Daley unveiled a plan Thursday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city. The effort, dubbed the "Chicago ...
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GM: Climate Change Is a Crock...Of Cash?

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
In February, Lutz was a bit less sanguine in his dismissal of human-caused climate change, calling it "a crock of sh-t." Nevertheless, his company is happy ...
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Live Earth climate change concert heads to India

The Associated Press 
The organization is installing solar power units in energy-starved Indian villages and aims to link understanding climate change with alleviating poverty...
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California's Greenbelt Alliance Standing Up for Smart Growth for ...

California Progress Report, CA 
Recent research shows that this steady increase in driving will cancel out any greenhouse gas reductions achieved by using hybrids and new fuel technologies ...
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Arctic Permafrost May Not Hasten Global Warming, Study Says

Bloomberg 
That potentially could speed up global warming if deep soil thaws, unlocking gases such as methane that trap heat near the Earth's surface.
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Rise in greenhouse gas emissions

BBC News, UK 
But the figures showed that overall greenhouse gas emissions had fallen by 13.4% in more than a decade. They also showed Scottish greenhouse gas accounted ...
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Is climate change policy incompatible with free trade?

eGov monitor, UK 
Because any strategy for addressing climate change that does not respect the right of developing countries to a level of economic prosperity broadly ...
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Emissions snapshot

San Diego Union Tribune, United States 
By Mike Lee Home energy consumption and use of personal vehicles generate roughly 60 percent of San Diego County's greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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Polar bear claim wins Rubber Dodo

The Age, Australia 
SARAH Palin may have seen the light - sort of - on climate change, but that did not spare her from being named America's environmental enemy of the year.
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'Let us strike over climate change'

NEWS.com.au, Australia 
UNIONS are looking to change industrial laws to allow employees to strike over climate-change issues. ACTU president Sharan Burrow said the union movement ...
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Stockton Agrees to Halt Sprawl, Cut Greenhouse Gases

Environment News Service 
STOCKTON, California, September 17, 2008 (ENS) - The central California city of Stockton has agreed to identify and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by ...
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Will Sarah Palin’s Energy Wisdom Be Contagious?

Hawaii Reporter, HI 
... 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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Sep 17, 2008

Russia president stakes controversial Arctic claim

Canada.com, Canada 
The surprise statement appears to run counter to a recent agreement by all five polar nations to resolve Arctic boundary disputes in an orderly, ...
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Report: Emission rules to boost Calif. economy

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"Our historic effort here in California to deal with the crisis of global warming will also have a benefit of saving our businesses and residents money," ...
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Lighting Up the Campaign Trail

Energy Central, CO 
"We are going to cap the greenhouse gases that cause global warming," Obama told one audience. "We are going to take some of the money that's generated from ...
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SKorea to set up first carbon trading company

AFP 
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea will set up its first carbon trading company to help regulate greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Wednesday.
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Circular global warming

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
Plants provide this valuable service, and questions remain about how effective they will continue to be if global warming reaches into the range the ...
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Polar bear aware - Canon/WWF tracker project celebrates 10th ...

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
They will be sharing their experiences in order to raise awareness of the plight of the polar bear and the impact climate change is having on its habitat.
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Greenhouse Gas Services, a GE AES Venture, to Create Greenhouse ...

Business Wire (press release), CA 
As one of the first emissions reduction co-development projects in the US, Greenhouse Gas Services (GHGS) will design, build and operate the facility that ...
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Natives will survive climate change, study finds

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
But Australian native trees are not the solution to climate change, said Dr Bert Drake of the Smithsonian Institute, who has maintained the world's ...
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Sarah Palin: Ice queen of the Arctic

guardian.co.uk, UK 
She has supported oil drilling in some of the most ecologically sensitive areas in Alaska, even when it meant sacrificing polar bears and beluga whales.
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COLUMBIA HEIGHTS Polar Bears' Plight Doesn't Play With Bomb Squad

Washington Post, United States 
Homeless polar bears are a real issue, said Joe Pouliot, director of climate and policy communications for the World Wildlife Fund.
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Global warming prompts float suit

BBC News, UK 
A Flintshire businessman claims to be helping polar explorers complete their expeditions safely, thanks to a gap in the market created by global warming.
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Crazy Days For Drilling And Global Warming

The Chilling Effect, DC 
While America's equity markets are facing tough times, some haven't noticed that crude oil prices have come back somewhere from outer space to something ...
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Sep 16, 2008

Former PMs prod leaders for climate-change plans

Canada.com, Canada 
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the other federal political leaders are being asked to spell out their plan for tackling climate change by a broad-based ...
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Energy security 'more important than climate change'

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Securing the country's supply of electricity is more important than tackling climate change, a new report from energy analysts has claimed.
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Global food crisis, UN reform, climate change top new UN General ...

Xinhua, China 
On climate change, the former Nicaraguan foreign minister said the recent adoption of the Bali Plan of Action constitutes an important step in seeking ...
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Arctic Ice Retreat May Be Harbinger of Climate Change (Update1)

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Receding ice is ``the most visible and largest indicator of climate change that we see.'' Reduced ice poses a risk to the northern region's indigenous ...
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Democrats, Stop Your Worrying

Huffington Post, NY 
... no relevant experience on the issues of national security, urban blight, global economics, health care, climate change, foreign affairs or diplomacy.
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Challenging the politics of passivity

Spiked, UK 
Obama also plays by fear: he holds out the threat of environmental catastrophe to argue for climate change initiatives, and justifies his healthcare plans ...
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Climate may change but policies won't for now

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
In his final plea to the party room at Monday night's meeting, Dr Nelson looked for support from the climate change sceptics, who formed a majority.
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Save the Ozone, Save Earth!

Zee News, India 
Over the North and South Poles during their respective winters, the stratosphere cools to very cold temperatures and polar stratospheric clouds form.
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NASA Selects 'MAVEN' Mission To Study Mars Atmosphere

Science Daily (press release) 
Phoenix landed on the icy northern polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008. The spacecraft completed its prime science mission on Aug. 25, 2008.
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International conference set to open in Kenya on climate change

Xinhua, China 
16 (Xinhua) -- An international conference is due to open in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Thursday to discuss the impact of the climate change on Africa, ...
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Global warming could send buckeye trees to Michigan

The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH 
Global-warming predictions can send a chill down one's spine: Melting polar ice caps, more hurricanes, epidemics, coastal swamping, drought and economic ...
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Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Financial Times, UK 
By Douglas Holtz-Eakin John McCain believes that the US must provide overdue leadership to address the pressing problem of global warming.
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The Energy Challenge States Aim to Cut Gases by Making Polluters Pay

New York Times, United States 
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, will cap emissions for 233 plants. By putting a price on the carbon dioxide they emit, it gives plants a ...
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Sep 15, 2008

Melting Arctic 'adds urgency to climate'

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
"As that ice goes, Arctic waters absorb more heat, adding to global warming," Sommerkorn said. "This is not just an Arctic problem, it is a global problem, ...
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Palin Changes Position on Climate Change

U.S. News & World Report, DC 
Sarah Palin's remarks on climate change to Charles Gibson in last night's interview conflicted with her previous position. Palin told Gibson, "I believe ...
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Sep 14, 2008

Global warming shrinks New Zealand glaciers to record small size

Earthtimes (press release), UK 
"It's one of the clearest signs that our climate is warming," Jim Salinger, principal scientist of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ...
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Does Palin miss the mark on a hot issue?

Toledo Blade, OH 
"Global climate change is the most important environmental challenge facing not only our nation, but the entire world." The words of a Greenpeace blowhard? ...
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Sarah Palin Wins the Tug of War with Charlie Gibson

National Ledger, AZ 
... use the best science models when predicting how the climate would warm in coming years and the impact it would have on the polar bears' sea ice habitat.
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Global warming makes Tina Fey SNL Clinton-Palin parody

Boston Globe, United States 
Last night's Saturday Night Live featured a Hillary Clinton character saying, "I believe global warming is caused by man,'' followed by this retort from ...
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The oil market can't save us from climate change

Grist Magazine, WA 
We can't count on ever-escalating oil prices to bail us out on climate change, or rebuild robust local economies. These critical tasks are going to require ...
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