Oct 25, 2008

Fighting climate change

The Gazette (Montreal), Canada 
Hot, Flat, and Crowded is as sobering as any as it documents the impact of climate change. Friedman doesn't have much time for skeptics or climate-change ...
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Barroso: Climate change to become more serious if no action is taken

Xinhua, China 
"If we do not take effective actions to tackle the climate change, there will be larger threats," Barroso made the remarks at the press conference of the ...
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Asia, Europe reaffirm determination to tackle climate change

Xinhua, China 
BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Leaders from Asia and Europe reaffirmed their resolutions to fight against global climate change and pledged to settle relevant ...
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Truss slams carbon trade

The Age, Australia 
The comments serve to further cloud the Coalition's climate policies. Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull wants an emissions trading scheme by 2012.
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Manmohan urges Europe to "do more" to combat climate change

Hindu, India 
Beijing (PTI): India on Saturday appealed to its European partners to "do more" to combat climate change as it suggested adoption of a "holistic approach" ...
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Oct 24, 2008

EU to include airlines in greenhouse gas restrictions

Bizjournals.com, NC 
Airlines flying into and out of the European Union will fall under a greenhouse gas cap starting in 2012 under new laws approved by members of the coalition ...
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UN climate chief says media not getting it

Christian Science Monitor, MA 
But more recently, the mainstream press has become more comfortable with discounting the small percentage of scientists who continue to deny global warming.
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Greenhouse-gas emissions reduced at landfills

The Energy News, Canada 
MONCTON (CNB) - Greenhouse-gas emissions in the province will be reduced by 45000 tonnes annually as the result of a new project being supported by the New ...
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Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The Daily Star, Bangladesh 
Greenhouse gases naturally blanket the Earth and keep it about 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would be without these gases in the atmosphere.
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Whither climate change legislation

Sustainable Industries, CA 
by Neal Dikeman - 10.24.08 With both John McCain and Barack Obama onboard for cap-and-trade legislation, this year's election bodes well for climate change ...
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Suntech enrolls as member of The Climate Group to reduce ...

PV Tech, UK 
... that brought the worldwide members of The Climate Group together, Suntech promised to help the world reduce greenhouse gas emissions by driving down the ...
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Sounds from distant stars may shed light on climate change

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
By Matthew Moore Sounds made by three distant stars have been recorded for the first time, as part of research that could shed light on climate change on ...
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Oct 23, 2008

UN report: Few coastal cities to be spared by climate change

Xinhua, China 
LONDON, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- A UN report launched here on Thursday says few of the world's coastal cities will be spared by climate change.
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Potent greenhouse gas more common than estimated: study

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A potent greenhouse gas many thousands of times more effective at warming the world's atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2) is four times ...
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Danish PM says 5 elements needed for new global climate change ...

Xinhua, China 
The upcoming Conference of Parties (COP15) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen is regarded as the final opportunity to ...
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Dynegy agrees to make climate change disclosures

Houston Chronicle, United States 
Dynegy Inc., owner of power plants in 11 states, must disclose significant financial risks associated with climate change stemming from its operations under ...
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Danish PM says China onboard for climate pact goal

Reuters UK, UK 
... year on a new climate change pact, he has been courting China, with its bulging output of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas behind global warming.
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Democratic Nominee Obama Vows to Defeat Climate Change

NBC Chicago, IL 
DENVER, Colorado, August 28, 2008 (ENS) - Climate change has made Senator Barack Obama's list of "threats of the 21st century" alongside terrorism and ...
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The Commissars Of Climate Change

Forbes, NY 
Ready or not, Joe and the rest of us are also about to get mugged by the commissars of climate change. On this, I've got a bipartisan beef, since both John ...
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CHILD ARTISTS JOIN UN ON CLIMATE CHANGE Child Artists Join UN on ...

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From Mexico to Malta, children from all over the world are helping to raise awareness about climate change through Paint for the Planet, an exhibit and ...
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Citing global warming, Gore renews call to cut use of oil

Boston Globe, United States 
His comments came during an outdoor program highlighting the university's previously announced plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent ...
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Oct 22, 2008

Climate Change: Next Steps in a Troubled Economy

Huffington Post, NY 
The conventional wisdom is that the financial crisis has claimed yet another casualty in the form of meaningful action in the next year on climate change.
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Climate change plan should start at home

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Last week the government took a major step forward in the fight against climate change by committing to cut UK emissions by 80% by 2050 (Leaders, ...
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Palin CanĂ¢€™t Name Any Man-Made Causes of Global Warming

AlterNet, CA 
Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate, Palin said she is not one to attribute global warming to being man-made. Since then, she has walked that statement ...
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Spain's ex-prime minister blasts 'new religion' of climate change

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MADRID (AFP) - Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar Wednesday dismissed climate change as a "new religion" that is drawing hundreds of billions of ...
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"New Deal" needed for climate change

Reuters UK, UK 
This is because political efforts to curb pollution, protect forests and avert climate change have proven "totally inadequate," UNEP executive director ...
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EU presses China and India to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

guardian.co.uk, UK 
The EU is pressing emerging economies such as China and India to agree to cut their greenhouse gas emissions under the proposed new post-Kyoto agreement on ...
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Going green in tough times

China Daily, China 
Companies that produced goods and services aimed at fighting climate change have so far generated $300 billion in annual revenue, more than the biotech and ...
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Seed Size May Help Predict Climate Change Impact

Discovery Channel 
Oct. 21, 2008 -- Plants closer to the equator are more likely to have larger seeds, a fact that could help predict the risk that climate change poses to ...
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Where Gregoire, Rossi stand on environmental issues

Seattle Times, United States 
Gregoire has no doubts that humans are a cause of global warming and that government can, and should, play a lead role in combating it.
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46th congressional candidates debate global warming and bailout

OCRegister, CA 
The first asked candidates to state their positions regarding global warming. Many who more than half-filled the Robert B. Moore theatre snickered and ...
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Tokyo leader berates countries on climate change

AFP 
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara lashed out at Russia and the United States for disputing rights to the North Pole, noting that the polar ice cap was ...
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No carbon copies

Baltimore Sun, United States 
Both the Republican and Democratic nominees have at least recognized the threat and have pledged to take significant action to reduce greenhouse gas ...
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China report warns of greenhouse gas leap

Reuters 
By Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - China's greenhouse gas pollution could double or more in two decades says a new Chinese state think-tank study that ...
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Oct 21, 2008

UN chief: Climate change is world's defining issue

Boston Globe, United States 
Climate change "is no longer theory, it has become a fact," he told an audience of several hundred. "We cannot afford to delay any action.
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Florida governor says McCain supports climate change. Huh?

Dallas Morning News, TX 
That's so old school, advocating for climate change. Most folks these days advocate for finding a way to stop it. Oh, fine, the gov just misspoke.
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Lawsuit against Canada over Kyoto accord dismissed

Reuters Canada, Canada 
The agreement required Canada to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012, but critics contend the Liberals failed ...
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Cow burps are making a growing contribution to global warming

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Methane in the atmosphere is believed to be responsible for one fifth of global warming experienced since 1750. The main producers are domestic animals ...
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Polar trio on ice cap expedition

BBC News, UK 
Once completed, the project's findings will be made available for the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, Denmark, next year.
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Green Business with Julian Knight: A real meltdown

CityWire.co.uk, UK 
As polar environmentalist and blogger Joe Taplin put it earlier this month, 'the Northwest Passage is no longer a myth. The North Pole is freely navigable ...
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Where the McCain, Obama stand on environmental, energy issues

Seattle Times, United States 
Under that system, the government would set limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, and companies would have to either cut emissions or buy pollution credits ...
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VP candidates have strong differences on environment

Seattle Times, United States 
... our climate on human activity." Her administration also filed a lawsuit challenging the federal listing of polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, ...
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Presidential race: Energy, environment key on both sides

Knoxville News Sentinel, TN 
Don Barger credits both candidates with pushing to lower greenhouse gas emissions, a move that he says would help reduce smog at the Great Smoky Mountains ...
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Sarah Palin: Pointing a loaded gun at the environment?

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Biologists from the US Geological Survey have warned that if current climate trends continue, every polar bear in Alaska will be gone by 2050.
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Oct 20, 2008

INTERVIEW-Australia cannot be an island in carbon market

Reuters AlertNet, UK 
Australia, which will require polluters to buy carbon emission permits from 2010 in an effort to combat climate change, has hinted it will limit links ...
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How the Economic Crisis Will Affect the Environment

AlterNet, CA 
This increased rate of greenhouse-gas emissions would precipitate global climate change, resulting in persistent droughts, increased storm activity, ...
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France: turmoil must not hurt climate change bill

GMA news.tv, Philippines 
Italian officials pushed for a clause that would force the European Commission to do a new cost analysis of the climate change bill in 2009.
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Pollution Credits Let Dumps Double Dip

Wall Street Journal 
That system would likely follow the so-called cap-and-trade model: The government would cap the amount of greenhouse gas companies could emit, and companies ...
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Common seal in sharp decline due to climate change and pollution

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent One of the UK's best loved marine mammals the common seal is in sharp decline because of climate change and ...
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Where McCain, Obama stand on the issues

The Associated Press 
Broke with President Bush on global warming and led Senate effort to cap greenhouse gas emissions. Obama: Ten-year, $150 billion fund for biofuels, wind, ...
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Green Policies in California Generated Jobs, Study Finds

New York Times, United States 
In two months, California is set to adopt broad policies to enforce a new cap on greenhouse gas emissions signed into law two years ago.
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Environment will wither whoever win US election

Times Online, UK 
Eager anticipation of a new American President offering a dramatic departure on issues such as climate change is rapidly being tempered by the financial ...
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Global warming faster than expected, WWF says

EurActiv, Belgium 
The EU should prepare to respond with more swift and ambitious climate change policies as global warming is accelerating at a faster pace than previously ...
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The world still must cut emissions

Contra Costa Times, CA 
THE CALIFORNIA AIR Resources Board came out with a final plan to meet a landmark global warming law signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger two years ago.
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Zoos vow to protect animals from climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
A meeting of some of the world's leading conservation experts has resolved to make zoos a key part of saving the world's animals from climate change.
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Oct 19, 2008

Citing economic downturn, some European countries push to delay ...

Chicago Tribune, United States 
By Laurie Goering | Chicago Tribune correspondent LONDON - Worried about the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the face of a worldwide economic ...
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$100 million for climate change

Canada.com, Canada 
The funds would be destined "almost exclusively to countries that are not necessarily major contributors to climate change or major sources of greenhouse ...
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Climate plan pulps employees downstream

The Australian, Australia 
Which makes it the more interesting that Climate Change Minister Penny Wong could deliver a 14-page speech last week to the London School of Economics on ...
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Tropical cyclones can bury greenhouse gases: study

Reuters UK, UK 
Plants soak up carbon dioxide, a natural greenhouse gas also emitted by burning fossil fuels, and store it as carbon as they grow.
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Carbon Made Easy

Calgary Herald,  Canada 
Total greenhouse gas emissions in Canada in 2006 were 721 megatonnes of CO2e. China is now edging ahead of the United States as the world's biggest emitter ...
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McCain Staking Race On Caricature Issues Bill Curry

Hartford Courant, United States 
Global warming poses an imminent threat to our food and water supplies. Corruption costs us untold billions and is the means by which the status quo ...
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