Energy giants plot revival of coal power

Times Online, UK 
Britain's electricity generators are planning to build several coal-fired power stations despite the controversy over the greenhouse gas emissions that they ...
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Wanted: A Real Change

Hartford Courant, United States 
However, a looming crisis that lies at the intersection of these two has been largely ignored: climate change. After three presidential debates, ...
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The Crisis and the Environment

Foreign Policy In Focus 
This increased rate of greenhouse-gas emissions would precipitate global climate change, resulting in persistent droughts, increased storm activity, ...
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Freedom and expansion of the EPA

Statesman Journal, OR 
[I]f [the] EPA were to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act, then regulation of smaller stationary sources that ...
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Climate change fight 'an economic generator'

Vancouver Sun,  Canada 
"[Campbell's climate-change initiatives] will be the biggest economic generator you can embrace." Former president Bill Clinton told a Vancouver audience ...
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Rich countries obligated to help poor nations in climate change: MPs

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MANILA (AFP) - Developed countries are obligated to help poorer nations cope with disasters that may be exacerbated by climate change, a UN-sponsored ...
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Beluga Whale Protection Bolstered; Palin Objects

New York Times, United States 
... climate change and her administration's failed effort earlier this year to prevent another species, the polar bear, from being listed as threatened.
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Campaign misinformation has set back climate change debate

Canada.com, Canada 
MONTREAL - Climate change experts and economists are concerned that Stephane Dion's failed attempt to sell his Green Shift may leave a lingering stink of ...
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McCain and Obama focus on confronting climate change

Newsday, NY 
Their ambitious proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions and lessen American dependence on fossil fuels are a sharp turn away from the policies of the Bush ...
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EU may miss deadline to cut greenhouse emissions

Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom 
A United Nations climate expert says he is worried the EU may miss its deadline on greenhouse gas emissions. A European Union summit ended this week with a ...
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Disarray in EU could stall climate goals: UN climate chief

CBC.ca, Canada 
Failure to reach an agreement by December could cascade into further delays in EU policy-making, just as negotiations on a global climate change pact head ...
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Top UN officials warn EU to meet climate goals

AFP 
The European Union, he said, "should continue to provide leadership on climate change, including through its ambitious energy and climate policy package.
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US election: Climate change negotiator feels Obama would work to ...

guardian.co.uk, UK 
The UN's chief climate change negotiator has predicted that a Barack Obama victory next month would jump-start progress toward global limits on carbon ...
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Australian leader holds firm on climate change

The Associated Press 
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - World leaders must deal with the threat of global climate change despite the spreading "cancer" of the global financial crisis, ...
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How To Be Conversant About Climate Change

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Talk of the Nation, October 17, 2008 �� What does a person need to know to be able to discuss climate change in an educated way? ...
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EU To Stick To 20 Percent Reduction Of Greenhouse Gas Emission By ...

AHN 
... economic crisis is not an excuse for the European Union to alter its climate change goal to reduce by 20 percent its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
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GOP environmental record a challenge for McCain

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Barack Obama to handle global warming and other environmental matters; 28 percent said they trusted McCain on the issue. "I certainly think that people who ...
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EU upholds climate change agreements

Radio Netherlands, Netherlands 
The European Union is to maintain its targets on climate change despite the financial crisis. At a summit in Brussels, the government heads of the 27 member ...
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EU summit focuses on financial crisis, climate change

Xinhua, China 
On climate change, Sarkozy said that the EU would reach an agreement on its climate-energy package before the end of the year. "We will find a compromise ...
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Apocalypse Now, via Diorama

New York Times, United States 
And if the plagues promised with global warming don't include an onslaught of frogs, there is more than enough to worry about: the exhibition predicts ...
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Burning Brush: Global Warming or McMansions to Blame for ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY 
Schwarzenegger suggested this summer, due to higher temperatures and droughts brought about by global warming? Or are the fires a lot like ...
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Based on their policies on science and climate change, which US ...

Cosmos, Australia 
McCain may be in support of stem cell research and mitigating climate change, but he's made some questionable comments about government funding for ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Hartford Courant, United States 
"Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future," opens Saturday in New York, addressing a complex issue that already is proving difficult to ...
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Arctic temperatures hit record high

The Miami Herald, FL 
Summer 2007 set a record low for sea ice in the Arctic, threatening reindeer, walruses and polar bears and opening shipping lanes above the Arctic Circle, ...
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California's landmark greenhouse-gas plan a step closer to reality

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
State environmental regulators Wednesday released a near-final version of California's landmark plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions, emphasizing for the ...
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EU sticks to climate change deal

USA Today 
"The deadline on climate change is so important that we cannot use the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it," he said.
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The candidates on climate change

WWMT, MI 
Both Senators have said that fighting climate change will be a central goal of their administration. Senator McCain calls for a cap and trade system which ...
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Prepare farmers for climate change

New Vision, Uganda 
The underlying danger to food security is climate change. It is not surprising that the theme of today's commemorations is "World Food Security, ...
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Climate change nations rethink their commitment

Zimbabwe.News.Net, Zimbabwe 
European nations seeking a new agreement on climate change are bound to be disappointed by the global economic crunch. Any change to emissions will now cost ...
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Despite Economic Challenges, EU Determined To Pursue Goal Of ...

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... economic crisis is not an excuse for the European Union to alter its climate change goal to reduce by 20 percent its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
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Skippy on the Menu as Australia Seeks to Fight Global Warming

Bloomberg 
Now, a government adviser says Australians should eat more of the animals to ease global warming. Ross Garnaut recommended last month that the methane-rich ...
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Irish greenhouse gas emissions down 0.66% last year

Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom 
Environment Minister John Gormley has again accepted that Ireland faces huge challenges in meeting its targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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EU 'resolute' on climate change

BBC News, UK 
EU leaders will maintain their targets and timetable for tackling climate change, despite objections from some nations, the French president has said.
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Climate change action is urgent: Garnaut

The Age, Australia 
Federal government adviser Ross Garnaut is adamant Australia and other nations must press ahead with climate change initiatives regardless of the turmoil on ...
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Global warming demands US attention

The Age, Australia 
It's easy to assume that whoever ends up in the White House will act on global warming, but given the huge spin generated by presidential campaigns, ...
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Australia's 'moral climate change duty'

The Age, Australia 
Australia has a "moral" duty to tackle climate change and won't delay action because of the world economic meltdown, the federal government says.
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EU leaders agree to stick to climate change plan despite economic ...

Jerusalem Post, Israel 
Sarkozy said there was unanimous support among the 27 EU leaders at the climate summit talks to try to get a deal by the end of the year on finalizing the ...
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Premier calls for 'harmonized' plan for climate change

CBC.ca, Canada 
Ed Stelmach wants the federal government and the provinces to unite behind a single plan to deal with climate change. "Why two sets of rules ... lets look ...
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Climate change and the Miliband brothers

Financial Times, UK 
That makes the comments tonight from Ed Miliband - the new climate change and energy secretary - rather interesting. The younger Miliband has told the ...
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Britain urges EU to stick to climate change agenda

AFP 
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU leaders were split Wednesday over climate change goals with Poland leading a bid to water down previous agreements while Britain urged ...
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World Bank warns of climate change funding cuts

Greenbang, UK 
Just last year, nearly every global and regional banking summit put climate change at the top of its agenda. Now it seems to have become an afterthought.
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Nations challenge EU climate plan

BBC News, UK 
Eight eastern and central European countries have challenged the EU's climate change package, which France wants to get adopted before next year.
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"Bipartisan" Global Warming Denial?

Huffington Post, NY 
Conley, in Inhofe-scale like terms, very "firmly proclaimed his denial of global warming science". In face of a question as to whether Global Warming is ...
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Hiking the campaign trail

Grist Magazine, WA 
Though Sarah Palin has sued the feds for listing the polar bear as a threatened species, she apparently likes the critter enough that she's been wearing a ...
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Gormley hails 'substantial' measures to tackle greenhouse gas ...

Irish Times, Ireland 
Mr Gormley also maintained that the strategy was effective in tackling greenhouse gas emissions, though admitted that reducing them by 3 per cent each year ...
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Climate change measures 'could be water down due to financial crisis'

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
European commitments to tackle climate change could be watered down due to the financial crisis. By Jon Swaine Environmental campaigners fear that measures ...
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Use Of Alternative And Renewable Energy Can Reduce Effects Of ...

Bernama, Malaysia 
Fadillah said his ministry was also studying the use of building materials that had contributed to global warming. "The use of mirrors in buildings will ...
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On climate change, US contenders share the wavelength

AFP 
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Little separates Barack Obama and John McCain on the issue of global warming. That means victory for either of them in the November 4 ...
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Antarctic mission to find world's oldest ice

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Scientists on the International Polar Year (IPY) project hope to discover how the mountains were formed, and suitable locations for future ice core drilling ...
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Huge fight looms in EU over climate change

International Herald Tribune, France 
The most immediate division is set to surface over climate change, which was to be discussed at a dinner of heads of government Wednesday night.
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UN: crisis can't kill climate change action

San Diego Union Tribune, United States 
By Ryan Lucas AP WARSAW, Poland - Environment ministers from key players in the climate change debate agreed Tuesday that the world financial crisis must ...
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Forest plan may 'fuel corruption'

BBC News, UK 
''Saving forests is critical for tackling climate change," Mr Eliasch said on releasing his report. "Without action on deforestation, avoiding the worst ...
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UN chief calls for global financial system reform

Hindu Business Line, India 
"Progress on the question of how existing mechanisms can provide financing on the scale and in the form required to address climate change is urgently ...
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Parliament climate change protesters threaten further disruption

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Climate change protesters who stormed the Houses of Parliament have threatened further demonstrations unless the Government adopts more eco-friendly ...
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Climate change slips down on global priorities

Times of India, India 
Just last year, nearly every global and regional summit put climate change at the top of its agenda. Now it seems to have become an afterthought.
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Protecting US Taxpayers from Devastating Climate Tax

Hawaii Reporter, HI 
I first began speaking out on global warming alarmism when I became the Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2003.
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Climate Change May Harm Health of Humans, Raise Disease Risk

Bloomberg 
By Adam Satariano Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The world needs to be better prepared to react to the deleterious effects that climate change may have on humans, ...
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Water hazard: how global warming could sink St Andrews Old Course

The Herald, UK 
"Scotland is, therefore, still going to be subject to global climate change despite its reduction achievements. "We do not know what lies around the corner ...
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Martian weather satellite's first report

PhysOrg.com, VA 
A report of the research, entitled 'Intense polar temperature inversion in the middle atmosphere on Mars', is published in Nature Geoscience on 12 October ...
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Let's not forget global warming

Nation Multimedia, Thailand 
Therefore, instead of preaching the necessity to ensure a sustainable environment, world leaders should pay more attention to the causes of global warming ...
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EU climate change targets will cost Britons £150 a year

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Ambitious EU climate change targets will cost the British tax payer ��150 every year just as the credit crunch ...
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CSU selected for greenhouse gas study

Denver Post, CO 
Carol Dollard - a member of the university's facilities team working on tracking and reducing the school's greenhouse gases - said CSU can still learn from ...
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World plan to avert financial meltdown

The National, United Arab Emirates 
The Associated Press said: "Attempts to tackle global warming are being made more difficult by the spreading economic crisis even as Democratic ...
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Transfer money, technologies to fight climate change: Chidambaram

Economic Times, India 
Noting that developing countries are the most vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change, Chidambaram Sunday called for a higher World Bank support for ...
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What warming? Climate change slips among global priorities

Earthtimes (press release), UK 
Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Calleri, who chairs the committee, said that ministers still acknowledged the "sense of urgency" in halting global warming ...
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Olympics in cyberspace, lab-grown meat, licences to have children ...

Scotsman, United Kingdom 
The scenario is one of five potential responses to climate change described by a panel of 60 experts in the study by Forum for the Future, a sustainable ...
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States and Utilities Unite to Rob Energy Consumers

NewsByUs, ID 
These States belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) that involves more than two hundred "fossil fuel" power plants.
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Efforts on global warming chilled by economic woes

The Associated Press 
Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate, and both presidential candidates, continue to rank tackling global warming as a chief goal next year.
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Palin’s environmental stance at odds with McCain’s

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK 
The McCain campaign points to her record as governor as proof that she's serious about addressing the effects of global warming. But her critics maintain ...
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As the climate changes, proponents of 'assisted migration' say ...

Boston Globe, United States 
They are trying to save the species from global warming. This mission of the Torreya Guardians, as they are known, represents the first deliberate ...
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Financial crisis clouds EU's climate change plans

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BRUSSELS (AFP) - The financial crisis and slumping economic activity are threatening Europe's ambitious plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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