Nov 29, 2008

Prentice warms to critics ahead of climate talks

Globe and Mail, Canada 
Known as the Convention on Climate Change, the annual gathering allows countries to share ideas and negotiate new targets for reducing greenhouse-gas ...
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Obama’s Grand Experiment: Global Warming Cap-and-Trade Policy

Town Hall, DC 
There's little chance of that when it comes to global warming, however, an issue on which Obama puts his ideology first and the nation's economic growth ...
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Nov 28, 2008

Western Governors Ask Obama for National Green Energy Plan

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The group of 19 governors from both political parties are calling for near-zero greenhouse gas emissions from new coal-fired electricity generation in 10 ...
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new formula for cutting greenhouse gases

Times Online, UK 
The plan, which is being drawn up by Brazil, is designed to put pressure on other nations to agree how targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions should ...
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Environment Minister places economic priority over environment

Calgary Herald,  Canada 
Opposition parties and environmentalists have criticized the Conservative's climate change policy, saying the goal of reducing absolute greenhouse gas ...
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UK's climate change body to unveil emissions cut plans

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By Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's chief climate change adviser will recommend on Monday how the government can meet tough targets to pare ...
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Climate change puts forests and people at risk, adaptation needed ...

Hindu, India 
Large areas of forests could succumb to climate change; scientists urge local adaptation responses to avoid disaster for environment, forest-dependent ...
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Black Friday warning: video games waste energy and contribute to ...

Scientific American 
... of carbon dioxide each year-an amount equal to the global warming pollution from all the cars on the road in San Jose, Calif., according to the report...
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Climate change tackled with faith

BBC News, UK 
Hundreds of representatives of the world's leading religions are in Sweden for a summit on climate change - said to be the first of its kind. ...
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Global warming in simple terms

Pictou Country Nova Scotia News, Canada 
The trouble with calling it global warming, May joked during a 90-minute talk at the library, "is that Canadians will think it'sa good idea.
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Bangladeshis rally against climate change

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1 in Poznan, Poland for a United Nations conference on climate change. "We are here with a message that we are suffering, and our sufferings will increase ...
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Nov 27, 2008

How Berkeley's Bank could help fight climate change

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
Our housing stock is exceptionally thermally inefficient, probably because unlike many continental countries we have a temperate climate with no great ...
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Obama on the 'urgency' of combating 'global warming'

American Thinker, WA 
Few challenges facing America and the world are less urgent than combating the non-problem of "global warming". On all measures, there has been no increase ...
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Save the Economy, and the Planet

New York Times, United States 
Environment ministers preparing for next week's talks on global warming in Poznan, Poland, have been sounding decidedly downbeat. From Paris to Beijing, ...
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Climate change watchdog backs expansion of Heathrow

guardian.co.uk, UK 
The UK could meet its ambitious pledge to slash greenhouse gas pollution even if ministers give the go-ahead to expanding Heathrow airport, the government's ...
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EU Fails to Agree on Climate Change Before UN Summit

Deutsche Welle, Germany 
Just ahead of a major UN summit on climate change in Poland, EU states are struggling to agree on their approach. The host country isn't the only member ...
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UN Sect'y General Calls For Green Jobs

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change. The better question is: Can we afford not to? ...
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High Expectations for Climate Work

Law.com, CA 
These days, the McKenna Long & Aldridge attorney in Washington fields questions about the business and law of climate change, not the science.
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Nov 26, 2008

"I Heart Global Warming"

Huffington Post, NY 
They have global warming to thank. Greenland had been colonized by Denmark for hundreds of years and that relationship has largely stood still, ...
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Climate change review angers NZ environment groups

Radio Australia, Australia 
New Zealand enviromental groups are angry about the new government's plan to possibly review the science behind climate change. They review would be part of ...
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The Vatican's Crusade on Climate Change

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By PHOEBE NATANSON Pope Benedict XVI today launched a crusade against climate change in his own tiny country by holding his first "ecologically friendly" ...
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Climate Change Should Have Israelis Perspiring a Little

Jewish Exponent, PA 
Climate change poses a danger to almost every nation. Israel is vulnerable -- to the direct effects of climate variations and, particularly, ...
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Climate change still a concern despite economy: poll

CTV.ca, Canada 
Despite the ongoing global financial crisis, a new poll of 11 countries, including Canada, shows nearly half are still more worried about climate change.
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Cheap oil, but at what cost?

Chicago Tribune, United States 
That intensive burning of natural gas is particularly alarming to climatologists, because it sends three times more climate-changing greenhouse gases into ...
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Obama offers quick reversal of Bush's global warming policy

Earthtimes (press release), UK 
... groups positively gleeful after eight years of a president who was viewed as slow to act and often skeptical of the science behind global warming.
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Governor change could shift state's climate policies

Arizona Republic, AZ 
... to serve in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, it could portend a major shift in policy for one of her biggest local priorities: climate change.
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We need a big green jobs machine

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Amid the pressures of the global financial crisis, some ask how we can afford to tackle climate change. The better question is: Can we afford not to? ...
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Nov 25, 2008

New Zealand's carbon market cast into limbo

Reuters 
Incoming Prime Minister John Key and Climate Change Minister Nick Smith have said the government will adopt a carbon trading scheme in some form, ...
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China, India lead demand for extra help in climate change struggle

Space Daily, CA 
China and India next week will spearhead calls for rich nations to dig into their pockets to tackle climate change but will resist targeted curbs on their ...
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Climate change wiped out cave bears 13 millennia earlier than thought

EurekAlert (press release), DC 
The maximum recorded weight of both Kodiak bears and polar bears - the largest bears living today - is 800kg, with averages of around 500kg.
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Perry warns EPA not to regulate greenhouse gases

Houston Chronicle, United States 
Rick Perry on Tuesday warned the Environmental Protection Agency against expanding federal clear air legislation to include greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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Governor's Office Talks About Last Weeks Global Warming Summit

MyMotherLode.com, CA 
The Governors' Global Climate Summit gathered leaders from around the world to confront global warming on the local and international levels.
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Climate Change Significantly Raising Ocean's Acid Levels

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The results, researchers wrote in the journal PNAS, suggests earlier climate change models have significantly underestimated the rate of ocean acidification ...
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FACTBOX: UN panel's findings on climate change

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(Reuters) - Following are findings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a 2007 report. The scientific findings are meant as a guide for ...
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FACTBOX-The world's top 25 greenhouse gas emitters

Reuters AlertNet, UK 
Nov 25 (Reuters) - Following is a table showing the world's top 25 emitters of greenhouse gases. About 190 nations will meet from Dec. 1-12 in Poznan, ...
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New push for cutting greenhouse gases

Financial Times, UK 
By Adam Thomson in Mexico City Legislators from across the Americas on Monday called for a reduction in greenhouse gases produced by industrialised ...
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Scientists urge caution on global warming

Politico, DC 
has lost his gavel, in part because his peers felt he was less than serious about tackling global warming. The National Academy of Sciences and most major ...
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EIB lends 50 mln euros to Philippines to address climate change

AFP 
MANILA (AFP) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to lend the Philippine government 50 million euros (64.7 million dollars) to help reduce climate change ...
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How global warming will become more dangerous

Times of India, India 
TORONTO: Global warming will hit us not only in the atmosphere but also in soil underneath, warns new Canadian research. Researchers at Toronto University ...
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Asia-Pacific Leaders Vow to Combat Climate Change, Food Scarcity

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"All parties should, in keeping with the requirement of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol and the principle of "common ...
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Coughing up to curb climate change

BBC News, UK 
The UK's Climate Change Bill, which commits future governments to cut CO2 emissions by 80% from 1990 levels by 2050, is about to receive Royal Assent but at ...
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Nov 24, 2008

Basin climate change report highlights water challenges

ABC Online, Australia 
The CSIRO has released a new report on the Murray-Darling Basin outlining the impacts of climate change and assessments on current and future water ...
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Obama’s Climate Challenge: What to do About China?

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY 
As if it needed one, here's another dilemma for the Obama administration: How to move aggressively to tackle climate change without getting China on board? ...
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Indiana coal-to-gas project bucks industry trend

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As they await Congress' action on greenhouse gas caps, many utilities and regulators have taken a cautious approach because those rules will dictate what ...
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Indonesia to implement Bali Climate Change recommendation in 2009

Xinhua, China 
24 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government will implement the Bali Climate Change Recommendation, which was proposed by the United Nations, next year, ...
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Vermont’s Climate Goals Stalled

New York Times, United States 
(Photo: The Associated Press) Vermont has made little progress toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions or developing the carbon-offset potential of the ...
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Vermont View: Buy regional vs. auto bailout?

Rutland Herald, VT 
President Bush rejected a nationwide standard for greenhouse gas emissions and prefers voluntary action by automakers. So while we waited for the EPA, ...
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Climate change, starfish hit Fiji reefs: study

ABC Online, Australia 
Climate change and a starfish outbreak have shrunk coral reefs near Fiji, forcing locals to change their lifestyle. A new study, published in Global Change ...
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Obama urged to create 'Green New Deal'

Boston Globe, United States 
By Beth Daley The worldwide economic crisis is prompting a growing number of countries to back away from pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions and invest ...
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APEC meeting ends with declaration

Xinhua, China 
23 (Xinhua) -- Leaders from APEC member economies on Sunday vowed to boost regional economic integration and food security, and to combat climate change and ...
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Nov 23, 2008

IN DEFENSE OF DETROIT.

Green Energy News, MD 
Much of the world, too, has set goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars - something Washington has refused to do in a major way. ...
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APEC leaders urges to address climate change

Xinhua, China 
23 (Xinhua) -- APEC leaders on Sunday called for a comprehensive manner through international cooperation to address climate change.
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Obama sends strong signals from the sidelines

Los Angeles Times, CA 
But he used a videotaped message to a bipartisan meeting of governors to promise quick action on limiting greenhouse gas emissions and enacting a ...
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