Obama Administration releases overview of budget request for ...

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The goal, the document says, is to cut greenhouse gas emissions 14% from 2005 levels by 2020 and approximately 83% from those levels by 2050, which mirror the more aggressive approaches to greenhouse gas reductions being considered in Congress.
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Global Warming To Be Stopped By Giant ‘Sun Shade’?

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Arizona (ChattahBox) - Scientists at the University of Arizona have released their theory on a 100000 square mile shade that would block harmful rays, and so solve the global warming crisis. The 'shade' would be made of millions of mirrors, ...
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WHY THE OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN WON’T WORK

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Washington, DC - President Obama's proposed cap-and-trade plan for reducing greenhouse gases will not achieve the reductions quickly enough to prevent devastating climate change, according to an analysis posted today by Public Employees for ...
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Ombudsman: Flaw in Will’s Ice Assertions

New York Times, United States
From my days camped on the sea ice around the North Pole to my time in the country's leading labs tracking polar trends with satellites, I've not met a single scientist focused on sea ice who would point to a single year's changes as evidence of ...
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India Impressed By Obama’s Stand on Climate Change But Demands ...

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While lauding President Obama for making climate change a central issue in his administration's policy the Indian government demanded that more needs to be done on the part of developed nations, especially in regard to setting robust emission reduction ...
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NEWS: Are Belching Sheep to Blame for Global Warming?

Opposing Views, CA
Scientists say that the release of methane is a major contributor to global warming, so what can sheep do to reduce their carbon footprint and perhaps improve their table manners at the same time?
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Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Gamble

New York Times, United States
By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON - In proposing mandatory caps on the greenhouse gases linked to global warming and a system for auctioning permits to companies that emit them, President Obama is taking on a huge political and economic challenge.
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Risks of Global Warming Rising: Is It Too Late to Reverse Course?

Scientific American
Schneider and his colleagues updated a graph, dubbed the "burning embers," that is designed to map the risks of damage from global warming. The initial version of the graph [left] drawn in 2001 had the risks of climate change beginning to appear after ...
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Does bitter winter weather refute climate-change claims?

Christian Science Monitor, MA
"You can't tell much about the climate or where it's headed by focusing on a particularly frigid day, or season, or year, even," writes Eoin O'Carroll in an online blog for The Christian Science Monitor. "It's all in the long-term trends," concurs ...
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US urged to lead China into carbon emission cuts

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By KT Arasu WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The United States should take the lead in reducing carbon emissions to be able to enlist China in the global campaign to curb global warming, an expert told an annual USDA conference on Friday.
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The EPA, the Budget and Global Warming

Heritage.org, DC
President Obama released his budget blueprint yesterday. Titled, "The New Era of Responsibility," the full 140-page blueprint, broken down by department, can be found here. The Environmental Protection Agency's budget, which balloons from $7.8 billion ...
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George Will Doubles Down on Global Warming Distortions

Common Dreams (press release), ME
WASHINGTON - February 27 - In his new column, George Will doubles down on distortions made in his widely criticized global warming column from earlier this month. Lashing out at critics, Will once again misuses sea ice data to falsely suggest it ...
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Obama's clean-oil push could threaten oilsands

Canada.com, Canada
Obama has cast himself as a champion of green energy during his White House campaign, proposing a national low-carbon fuel standard that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 180 million metric tons by 2020. He has also promised to invest $150 ...
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IPCC chief says climate change unequivocal but is challenged at ...

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by Tony Hake, Denver Weather Examiner In testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Dr. RK Pachauri, head of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said, "warming of the climate system is ...
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Princeton physicist tells Congress global warming fears are

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Award-winning physicist Dr. Will Happer coined the phrase "CO2 famine" and branded claims about man-made global warming as "mistaken" today at a Congressional hearing. Happer, who has published over 200 scientific papers, made his thoughts known during ...
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Overhaul of climate programs proposed

San Diego Union Tribune, CA
A panel of top analysts, including two from San Diego, yesterday proposed a sweeping overhaul of federal climate change programs to help the public better understand global warming and move quickly to deal with its effects. The blueprint, published by ...
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World faces last chance to avoid fatal warming: EU

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World leaders from about 190 countries meet in Copenhagen in December to try to agree a global framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming, which expires in 2012. "It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created.
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Seeking Influence: Number of Climate Change Lobbyists Tripled in ...

GreenBiz, CA
WASHINGTON, DC -- As climate change legislation moved higher up on the Congressional agenda last year, so too did the numbers of lobbyists sent to Capitol Hill to influence the debate. In 2008, some 770 companies and industries groups spent more than ...
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Does Obama's Budget Go Far Enough On Global Warming?

The Plank on TNR.com, DC
Ooookay, let's scrunch up our sleeves and talk accounting for a bit. (Wait! Don't click away!) As mentioned earlier, the White House's newly unveiled budget proposal plans to raise $646 billion in tax revenue between 2012 and 2019 by auctioning off ...
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Polluters pay in Obama's 'green' budget

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The innovative program -- similar to one already in place in Europe -- would rev up US efforts against global warming by reducing the output of carbon dioxide and other polluting gases, while raising direly-needed revenue. The administration's proposed ...
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Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Difficult Sell

Hoosier Ag Today, IN
A mandatory cap on the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, a key part of President Obama's domestic agenda, may be hard to sell on Capitol Hill. The cap would be designed to generate revenue for the Federal Government - and at the same time address the ...
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Climate of Change

New York Times, United States
After years of denial and delay by its predecessor, the Obama administration is signaling that it's ready to take on climate change. And these new priorities are laid out in a document whose clarity and plausibility seem almost incredible to those of ...
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Australia to unveil carbon-trading legislation

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Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said Friday that she will unveil legislation on March 10 to create an Australian carbon emissions trading scheme designed to tax climate-changing pollution starting July 2010. "The longer we delay in making this ...
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Climate change: chance for US-China cooperation

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BEIJING (AP) - With climate change emerging as a key issue for both the United States and China, the two countries have a new platform for cooperation and an opportunity to strengthen their often contentious relationship, a leading China expert said ...
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Ice in east Antarctica a bigger threat long term

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Scambos and Tom Neumann, leader of that joint US-Norwegian "traverse" from the South Pole to this Norwegian outpost, commented Wednesday after the release in Geneva of a report summarizing initial findings from the 2007-2009 International Polar Year ...
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Governor Schwarzenegger Applauds President Obama’s Budget Proposal ...

Imperial Valley News, CA
There is far more economic opportunity worldwide in fighting global warming than there is economic risk. "Now the hard work begins-to design a program that promotes the environment and economy and preserves the innovation and principles established by ...
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Tories in sprint to match Obama on climate change

Toronto Star,  Canada
OTTAWA-Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is breathing a sigh of relief that US President Barack Obama is serious about climate change, but the pace of change in Washington could leave him struggling to catch his breath.
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Human Dimension Needed in US Climate Research

Environment News Service
WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2009 (ENS) - The US government's Climate Change Science Program should expand its agenda to integrate research in the natural and social sciences that will enable the nation to tackle problems communities actually face, ...
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Obama’s Climate Rip-off

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In his 10-year budget released this week, the President proposed a so-called cap-and-trade scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the proposal, 100 percent of the permits to emit greenhouse gases would be auctioned to coal and natural ...
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Forum focuses on Western tacks on climate change

Hays Daily News, KS
By JUDITH KOHLER AP Writer DENVER (AP) -- Leaders from states that developed climate change policies and pushed renewable energy in the absence of a national plan want to be heard as a new federal administration takes the lead on the issue.
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Study Finds Unprecedented Growth in Climate Change Lobbying

Democracy Now, NY
In the past year, some 770 companies hired over 2000 climate change lobbyists and spent an estimated $90 million to influence federal policy on climate change. We speak to the report's lead author, Marianne Lavelle. [includes rush transcript] Marianne ...
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Report: Companies should disclose water use

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On Monday, scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned climate change will increase the risk of droughts, heat waves and floods if average global temperatures rise by just 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. "Climate change is excerbating ...
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First Lady Talks About Pollution and Climate Change at the EPA

New York Times, United States
There, she told hundreds of employees that they were in the forefront of the Obama administration's efforts to clean up polluted communities and combat climate change. "You ensure that the water we drink is safe, that the air we breathe is clean, ...
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NASA's Chief Climate Scientist Stirs Controversy With Call for ...

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By Joshua Rhett Miller AP NASA's chief climate scientist is in hot water with colleagues and at least one lawmaker after calling on citizens to engage in civil disobedience at what is being billed as the largest public protest of global warming ever in ...
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Obama Plan Has $79 Billion From Cap-and-Trade in 2012

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Representative Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the Obama plan would help create "an artificial market" for carbon emissions, one that won't necessarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Drilling Down on the Budget

New York Times, United States
The White House estimates that the plan, built around a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions, will produce $150 billion over 10 years beginning in 2012 to finance renewable energy projects and another $65 billion a year to pay for ...
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Obama budget includes cap and trade revenues

The Hill, DC
Obama's climate policy marks a significant shift from the approach by the Bush administration, which favored dedicating money to research ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but did not impose any hard and fast caps on industries.
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Knoll Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 10.4%, Two Years Ahead ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- --Knoll (NYSE: KNL) today announced that it has reached its 2010 goal of an additional 2% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over its Phase 1 results as part of its program with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).
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Media must highlight climate change, say researchers

Cordis News, Belgium
In spite of the media's lack of serious coverage, important research results on climate change are being published all the time. The latest findings from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008, a global research effort focused on the Antarctic ...
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Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds

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But it caught the ear of the visiting politicians, who are this year weighing a grand new global deal for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to avert the worst of climate change. "It's important to hear the latest science," said Hilary Benn, ...
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UN Scientists:; Climate Change Evidence Unequivocal

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The report, compiled by scientists from more than 60 countries, also says that the shrinking of polar and Greenland ice is fueling a rise in sea levels and the potential for dramatic changes in the global climate system. The authors say the Arctic ...
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US-China ties needed to fight climate change

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BEIJING (AP) - A top China expert said Thursday that the fight against climate change will give the United States and China a chance to strengthen an often tempestuous relationship by working together on solutions. The world's two largest emitters of ...
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Greenwash: Why 'clean coal' is the ultimate climate change oxymoron

guardian.co.uk, UK
The people who told us for years that climate change was a myth now say it's all true - but something called 'clean coal' can fix it. This is pure and utter greenwash, says Fred Pearce No clean-coal plant that buries carbon has yet been built.
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Center for Public Integrity Reports Boom in Climate Change Lobbying

The BLT, DC
The number of lobbyists working to influence policies regarding climate change has exploded over the past five years, increasing by as much as 300 percent, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity. The report, titled "The Climate ...
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Washington Post Staff Writers

Washington Post, United States
A mandatory cap on the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, which President Obama embraced on Tuesday as central to his domestic agenda, would be designed to generate badly needed revenue for the government while addressing arguably the world's most ...
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NASA official: Rebuilding global warming rocket possible

SmartBrief, DC
A $280 million NASA mission crashed when a rocket set to explore carbon dioxide levels on Earth crashed in the ocean near Antarctica yesterday. Scientists say the US has fallen behind other countries in environmental satellite efforts.
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Scientists find bigger than expected polar ice melt

AFP
The frozen and often inaccessible polar regions have long been regarded as some of the most sensitive barometers of environmental change and global warming because of their influence on the world's oceans and atmosphere. Preliminary findings from the ...
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Scientist: Global Warming Evidence, Claims Exaggerated

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Michaels, who is also a state climatologist and professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, discussed the research published in his new book, "Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know.
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Australia seeks to cut animal gas emissions

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Methane gas from livestock flatulence accounts for about 12 percent of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said as he launched the 26.8 million dollar (17.4 million US dollar) project.
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After Obama appeal, Congress renews efforts on climate change

Economic Times, India
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers this week took up the issue of climate change and how to address it after President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea for action on fighting global warming. But even as the Senate and House of Representatives convened ...
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Antarctic glaciers melting faster than thought

The Associated Press
... on the planet not experiencing climate change. Previous research indicated that temperatures across much of Antarctica were staying the same or slightly cooling. The report Wednesday was compiled as part of the 2007-2008 International Polar Year, ...
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DOI To Offer New R&D Oil Shale Lease Sale

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Beyond water and cost hurdles, oil shale production and processing produces higher greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil, and new climate-change legislation Congress is drafting is likely to add another major obstacle for development...
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US Needs a $1 a Gallon Gas Tax, Says Nobel Laureate

Greentech Media, MA
What will get the US moving toward greenhouse gas reductions and greater energy autonomy? A $1 a gallon gas tax, says Arno Penzias. Penzias, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 (with Robert Wilson) for confirming the Big Bang and who now works ...
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Gore, Will, Climate and Complexity

New York Times, United States
The risks from global warming, as I wrote the other day, are most realistically displayed in glowing graphs showing "smears" of probability, to use the framing of the economist Martin Weitzman at Harvard. There is persistent, normal complexity and ...
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Polar regions found warming fast, raising sea levels

Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - The Arctic and Antarctic regions are warming faster than previously thought, raising world sea levels and making drastic global climate change more likely than ever, international scientists said on Wednesday.
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Obama's Speech Recognizes Seriousness of Global Warming

Common Dreams (press release), ME
WASHINGTON - February 25 - President Obama recognized last night that addressing global warming is not only vital for the planet, but also for the economy. Global warming is an enormous threat to the economy and potential destroyer of wealth.
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Ice Declining Faster Than Expected In Both Arctic And Antarctic ...

Science Daily (press release)
25, 2009) - Multidisciplinary research from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 provides new evidence of the widespread effects of global warming in the polar regions. Snow and ice are declining in both polar regions, affecting human ...
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ENVIRONMENT: Following Obama’s Speech, Parsing Key Players for ...

Public Integrity, DC
By Matthew Lewis | February 25, 2009, 1:22 pm In last night's speech, President Obama called on attendees to send him "legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution." As a new Center report explains, that means the mushrooming number ...
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Climate change: Atlantic shift has global impact

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PARIS (AFP) - Big changes in the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean probably have an impact around the globe, according to a study published Wednesday that touches on a key aspect of climate change. Scientists delved into dramatic swings in climate that ...
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Democratic Spending Plan Rewrites Species Rules, Lawmakers Say

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"This is a back-door maneuver to create vast new climate- change powers without any public comment or involvement by the American people" Hastings said yesterday in a statement. "Reaching far beyond the Arctic home of polar bears, this action would put ...
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Republicans protest polar bear rider in omnibus

New York Times, United States
"Inserting a rider with far-reaching policy implementations for climate change and energy production without the slightest bit of debate is not good public policy," Murkowski said in a statement. "This would remove transparency and public scrutiny from ...
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Polar Year 'hailed as a success'

BBC News, UK
That knowledge is not just about ice and polar bears, but also about Arctic peoples and global climate systems. The WMO has released its preliminary report "The State of Polar Research". The summary of results outlines what has been learned so far from ...
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In Climate Debate, Hype Is a Pitfall

New York Times, United States
Former Vice President Al Gore, right, recently pulled a slide he used in a presentation on natural disasters and climate change. By ANDREW C. REVKIN In the effort to shape the public's views on global climate change, hyperbole is an ever-present ...
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Climate Change: There’s money to be made

Harper's Magazine, NY
By Ken Silverstein The number of lobbyists seeking to influence federal policy on climate change has grown more than 300 percent in five years, with a slew of new interests from Main Street to Wall Street adding to the challenge of addressing global ...
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Study: Antarctic glaciers slipping swiftly seaward

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A report by thousands of scientists for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year concluded that the western part of the continent is warming up, not just the Antarctic Peninsula. Previously most of the warming was thought to occur on the narrow stretch ...
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Climate bill needed to 'save our planet,' says Obama

New York Times, United States
Obama campaigned for president last year with climate change and energy issues atop his agenda. And he returned to those themes yesterday, saying that a cap-and-trade bill would help spark economic recovery by giving US companies greater incentive to ...
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Support for Ec0-Friendly Laws Remains, Despite Struggling Economy

New York Times, United States
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD, ClimateWire NEW YORK -- Fears that governments will halt or even roll back efforts to tackle climate change as they struggle to deal with an international financial crisis and rising unemployment appear unfounded.
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Ice Age or global warming?

Reuters
Global Warming is Real!!! It is caused by the sun. If not for the sun we'd all freeze to death. There is nothing wrong with dumping dirty snow in the oceans. When fish have the right to vote then we'll start listening to their plight.
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Baldwin to energy conference: Failure to act on climate change ...

Wisbusiness.com, WI
These new loan guarantees will help enhance efforts to develop advanced biofuel technologies that reduce our dependence on foreign oil, lower our greenhouse gas emissions, and create jobs. I am fortunate to be working to advance initiatives that will ...
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Now, Modi minister for global warming

Times of India, India
Gandhinagar : Gujarat government on Tuesday announced a new department to address issues of climate change and global warming, to be headed by chief minister Narendra Modi till a full time minister is appointed. Officials here said Gujarat will be the ...
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Obama calls for carbon cap legislation

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But since Obama's administration took office in January, Congress has been working on setting up a system for swapping greenhouse gas emissions quotas similar to the one used in the European Union. Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics, said "alternatives ...
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Energy symposium weighs perils and opportunities on climate change

UC Berkeley, CA
While warning that societies often fail "to come to grips with crises," Nichols highlighted opportunities for progress on climate change under the Obama Administration, leveraging California's record of environmental leadership at the national level.
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Study finds new dangers of global warming

United Press International
24 (UPI) -- US researchers say they have discovered even slight increases in global temperatures could lead to greater calamities than previously thought. The study finds that even a lower level of increase in global warming due to greenhouse gas ...
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Obama prefers Congress to EPA in tackling climate -- Browner

New York Times, United States
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN, ClimateWire President Obama would prefer to tackle global warming through a cap-and-trade bill but remains open to setting rules for cars and power plants as a backstop, his top energy and climate adviser said yesterday.
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How much is Antarctica warming? Officials get firsthand look

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
No conclusion is stated, but the unwashed masses are to add this article to the Global Warming cries as proof it is real. The latest: A parka-clad band of environment ministers landed in the remote corner of Antarctica on Monday, in the final days of ...
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Scientists, officials probe Antarctic climate risks

Detroit Free Press, United States
The answers are so elusive that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a Nobel Prize-winning United Nations scientific network, excluded the potential threat from the polar ice sheets from calculations in a 2007 assessment of global warming.
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World CO2 market volume seen up, value down in '09

Reuters
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will grab a 6 percent share of the global carbon market by the end of the year, as auctioning volume and secondary market activity grow, the report said. RGGI is a group of 10 states in the US Northeast and ...
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US budget to have CO2 revenues by 2012

Reuters
"That's true," Gibbs said when asked whether a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases would be in place in time for revenues to be generated by 2012. The president, a Democrat, has said he wants the United States to take the lead in fighting climate ...
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National Rules For Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions For ...

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Washington, DC (AHN) - Carol Browner, the Presidential Assistant for Energy and Climate, said she was in favor of establishing national rules that would regulate greenhouse gas emissions of vehicles. The idea to have a single carbon dioxide discharge ...
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Team Obama hints at delay to climate change bill

Business Green, UK
Just a week after President Obama signed into law around $100bn in green investment as part of his economic stimulus package, the White House has moved to downplay expectation its planned climate change bill will be passed by the end of the year.
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Bubbles Of Warming Beneath The Ice

Free Internet Press, NY
Nowhere is the evidence of a heating planet more dramatic than in the polar regions. Over the last 50 years, the Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the globe. Last summer, for the first time in recorded history, the North Pole could be ...
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Tree Deaths in US West Linked to Climate Change

Voice of America
The scientists say they believe the tree deaths were partly a result of warmer and drier weather conditions linked to climate change. A team of eleven researchers reported their findings last month in Science magazine. The researchers work for the ...
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Climate change timetable slips as Obama backtracks on 2008 deadline

guardian.co.uk, UK
She brushed aside the idea that climate change legislation would be seen as evidence of leadership. "I wouldn't comment on whether that is the only thing that would show leadership. It is still early on, and we just have to see how it all unfolds," she ...
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ADB Release Grant To Provide Climate Change Workshop For Asian ...

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Manila, Philippines (AHN) - The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday announced the release of $450000 grant from its Climate Change Fund, to provide technical training and improve the knowledge of broadcast journalists reporting on climate-related issues.
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Expert: Climate Change Could Mean 'Extended World War'

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Trying on polar outfits for size on Friday were China's chief climate negotiator Xie Zhenhua, veteran US climate envoy Dan Reifsnyder, and environment ministers Hilary Benn of Britain and Carlos Minc Baumfeld of Brazil.
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US May Set Greenhouse Gas Standard for Cars

Washington Post, United States
By Juliet Eilperin The Obama administration is considering establishing national rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions for automobiles, according to White House officials, a move backed by both auto manufacturers and some environmentalists.
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Global warming danger threat increased

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that the risk of increased severe weather would rise with a global average temperature increase of between 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit and 3.6 degrees above 1990 levels. The National Climatic Data ...
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17 Players Who Could Make or Break Cap and Trade

Mother Jones, CA
Lawrence H. Summers: As Bill Clinton's deputy Treasury secretary, he argued that stemming climate change too quickly would drag down the economy. As head of Obama's economic team, he'll square off against the White House's progressive climate czar, ...
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White House would support appropriate climate bill

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WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama would support climate change legislation this year or next if it contained provisions he backed, the White House said on Monday. "I think the president would say if we had significant legislation ...
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Ms. Jackson Makes a Change

New York Times, United States
This was a decision to reconsider (and almost certainly approve) California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, which the Bush administration had denied. Ms. Jackson moved quickly to carry out that directive, ...
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Monday Poll Question Information: Reid pushing for climate change bill

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also has cited "a sense of urgency" in addressing climate change, adding: "We cannot afford another year of delay." The chairman of the House committee charged with crafting a bill has promised to provide one to ...
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Global Warming Gets Obama Administration Attention, Despite Economy

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By Dan Shapley Good, because the Obama administration appears to be taking steps to address global warming that go beyond even the green elements of the massive economic stimulus package -- a stark change in direction from the Bush Administration.
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Global Warming May Bring More Respiratory Woes

U.S. News & World Report, DC
MONDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Climate change will push summer temperatures higher and lead to more hospitalizations for respiratory problems, a European study finds. The researchers analyzed a minimum of three years of hospital admission data in ...
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IISS to Launch Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security

PR Newswire (press release), NY
23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce the launch of the Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security (TDCCS), on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 , from 3:00 pm until 4:30 pm ...
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Will Obama help stop the warming trend?

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by Elizabeth Ann Bange, College Station Weather Examiner According to Obama officials, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is expected to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are blamed for contributing to the global warming ...
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Climate Morality and 2009

Huffington Post, NY
It's a stark framing of the global debate over climate change - and one that Americans, as the collective driver of that proverbial SUV, might seriously consider right now. The question was posed to me in a recent exchange with Adil Najam, ...
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Media Credibility, Not Ice Caps, In Meltdown

American Thinker, WA
In December 2006, Dr Duncan Wingham, Professor of Climate Physics at University College London and Director for Polar Observation and Modelling, presented evidence that showed "Antarctic thinning was no more common than thickening".
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Hixson firm among first in emissions verification

Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN
On Tuesday, Rob Ellis, the company's manager for greenhouse gas verification, will testify before a congressional committee looking into how the United States can best measure and limit greenhouse gases. "We're giving the subcommittee the soup to nuts ...
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Squabbling derails greenhouse gas efforts, says ex-minister

guardian.co.uk, UK
Elliot Morley, head of the new energy and climate change select committee, said tensions between different government departments had undermined moves to cut greenhouse gas pollution. Policies to cut carbon and help the environment were dismissed ...
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Ministers get close look at Antarctic ice threat

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The answers are so elusive that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Nobel Prize-winning UN scientific network, excluded the potential threat from the polar ice sheets from calculations in its authoritative 2007 assessment of global ...
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British Fight Climate Change With Fish and Chips

New York Times, United States
Used cooking oil will never erase the need for filling stations, nor will it, by itself, reverse climate change, transportation experts say. "You can't eat enough French fries" to serve all the cars driven in the West, said Peder Jensen, ...
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Better climate policy could cut extra 150m tonnes in emissions ...

The Australian, Australia
The Opposition Leader is attempting to trump the Prime Minister and take the offensive after a week of damaging internal strife by going on the front foot over climate change. "We are committed to a more ambitious target and a more effective climate ...
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Climate change fear used to sell books

The Tennessean, TN
... 2008 UN global warming conference, where over 650 scientists from around the globe are criticizing the climate claims made by Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("It's true: Man-made global warming is a threat).
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In global warming we trust

Washington Times, DC
These adored figureheads have selected verses from a collection of scientific data and climate effects to write their global-warming scriptures. Their holy writ includes a reworking of the Book of Revelation with planetary disasters as frightening as ...
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Recession prompts rethink on emissions

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
By Eloise Gibson Environment Minister Nick Smith wants officials to recalculate New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions because they are likely to grow more slowly thanks to the global economic meltdown. Dr Smith said the Government would not set ...
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18 States Urge EPA to Act on Global Warming

EP Magazine, TX
Instead, the EPA would have to decide, based on the science, whether it believed that greenhouse gas emissions were posing dangers to public health or welfare. If the agency determined that endangerment was occurring, the agency would have to start the ...
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US governors call for partnership with federal government in ...

Xinhua, China
21 (Xinhua) -- Twelve US governors on Saturday called for a partnership between states and the federal government in fighting climate change. The call came at a meeting with President Barak Obama's top energy environment officials in Sacramento, ...
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