Global warming: Earth Hour campaign launched

Indian Express, India
Mumbai: In an effort to draw attention towards the increasing menace of global warming, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India launched its 'lights out' initiative - Earth Hour global campaign - at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) campus ...
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Could climate prove a change too far for Obama?

Space Daily, CA
European enthusiasm for President Barack Obama's ambitious programme of US renewal does not hide deep uncertainty over the likelihood of his delivering on measures to combat climate change. Nine months from UN talks in Denmark, where world leaders will ...
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Need to involve India, China on climate change: US

Press Trust of India, India
Washington, Mar 7 (PTI) The United States has highlighted the need to engage countries like India and China in tackling climate change, saying the issue demanded a global response. "We have historically been the largest emitter of greenhouse gas ...
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Chinese FM calls for cooperation to address climate change

Hindu, India
BEIJING (Xinhua):- Developed and developing countries should join hands to address the global climate change, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said here on Saturday. "Developed and developing countries should make their own efforts while addressing ...
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Methane is the new scapegoat for global-warming alarmists

The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH
As if carbon dioxide were not a big enough problem for the Earth's climate, now we have an alarming increase in methane, caused by global warming, which may cause more global warming, which may cause more methane gas to be released, which causes more .
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Energy Efficiency Key to Upcoming US Climate Legislation

Environment News Service
"Energy efficiency can slash greenhouse gas emissions at low cost and in large quantities. A carbon cap is essential to getting those savings but we don't use all cost-effective energy efficiency now and we still won't with a price on carbon," said Joe ...
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More daylight? During a drought? When global warming is already a ...

Austin American-Statesman, TX
"You would think that members of Congress would have considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate. Or did they? "Perhaps this is another plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a ...
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Adapting to Climate Change -- An Urgent Societal Priority

GreenBiz, CA
As more definitive scientific evidence on the impacts of climate change at the global, regional and local levels continues to accumulate, a greater sense of urgency is arising across political capitals, in the business community and within civil ...
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Bay Area Cities Sign Climate Change Pact

Greentech Media, MA
In another Bay Area-wide effort to push green policies and economic growth, the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, and Santa Clara County, have pledged to form a regional effort to fight climate change. The cities of San Francisco, ...
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Congress pressured to act on greenhouse-gas curbs

The News Journal, DE
By JEFF MONTGOMERY ��� The News Journal ��� March 6, 2009 Mounting pressure for clear national greenhouse-gas controls could soon overshadow regional efforts -- including Delaware's -- as supporters step up calls for congressional action ahead of a global ...
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NY Gov considers change in 10-state carbon pact

Reuters
New York was the founding member of the 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which early this year became the first pact in the country to regulate emissions of the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. As part of the agreement, ...
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Roadmap for a US-China Partnership on Climate Change

Huffington Post, NY
The US and Chinese governments must start right now to build a stronger partnership on energy and climate change. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to China in February provided a welcome opportunity for the two nations to engage on a range of ...
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Clinton on Global Warming: “US has been negligent in living up to ...

Red, Green, and Blue, CA
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a group of young Europeans at the European Parliament in Brussels today that the global economic downturn provided a fresh new opportunity. "Never waste a good crisis," Secretary Clinton suggested.
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Off to a Green Start: A Roundup of Obama's Environmental Progress

Huffington Post, NY
Here is the beginning of what I hope will be a very long list: ��� January 26, 2009: President Obama directs the EPA to reconsider the agency's decision to deny California's strong limits on global warming pollution from cars, and he calls on the ...
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Senate leader says energy, climate bills will be combined

New York Times, United States
confirmed today that he will package energy and global warming measures together into one large bill for consideration later this year, a decision that should put to rest questions about whether Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill have different ...
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Global warming “bait-and-switch”

Canada Free Press, Canada
Switch: Runaway warming is increasing hurricanes, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and causing species extinction. Bait: Even little things like reducing personal energy consumption help the environment. Switch: We can stop climate change by ...
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Clinton: US has been negligent on climate change

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BRUSSELS (AP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is telling Europeans that the Bush administration neglected the problem of global climate change. Speaking to several hundred young professionals at the European Parliament on Friday, ...
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Pennsylvania Helping Local Governments Reduce Greenhouse Gases ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
That includes more than $79000 in grants announced today in Swarthmore , Delaware County , to help four municipalities in the area work at the local level to combat the global problem of climate change. The investment was part of nearly $300000 for ...
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Europe Advises US Officials on Climate

Washington Post, United States
By Juliet Eilperin A clutch of leading international climate officials and negotiators who descended on Washington this week to press the United States for action on global warming say they got a clear message from the Obama administration and key ...
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Recession may help on the climate front -- for a while

New York Times, United States
By PETER BEHR, ClimateWire The global recession will provide a short respite from climate challenges, shrinking greenhouse gas emissions from industry, offices, homes and vehicles this year. When the economy resumes growing, so will the planet's carbon ...
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Climate Change Equivocator Meets Enviro-Prankster

The Washington Independent, DC
Scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, not to mention energy CEOs like Jim Rogers, and conservative politicians like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have taken that option off the table. An affirmative answer could fatally undermine ...
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Al Gore weathers confrontation at ECO:nomics summit

Mother Nature Network, GA
Recent submarine data in the Arctic indicates that a total thaw of the polar ice cap could take place during summer months in less than 5 years. The multiple, compounded repercussions from such a cataclysmic event are just beginning to be understood ...
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'Clean coal' spokesman ducks question on greenhouse gas emissions

Tampabay.com, FL
But the industry does itself no favors when Joe Lucas, the spokesman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, ducks a question about greenhouse gas production while being interviewed on CNN. Just FYI Joe: Carbon dioxide emissions from ...
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Curbing greenhouse-gas emissions from autos

SmartBrief, DC
President Barack Obama is striving to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles by developing a national standard. A spokesman said Obama "believes that one national policy for autos would provide the industry with certainty while achieving our ...
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US Energy Secy pledges to fight global warming

Reuters India, India
... and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday pledged to work with Congress to pass legislation that would impose a cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming.
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Obama veers from Bush's environmental course

USA Today
The hard work, such as filling in the details of how Obama will keep his campaign pledge to cut global warming gases 80% by 2050, lies in front of the new administration. Christie Whitman, Bush's first chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, ...
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Lawmakers want to pull plug on emissions deal

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Jan Brewer and her agencies of the power to impose new greenhouse gas pollution rules on Arizona residents and businesses. But the plan could get an icy reception from Brewer. Legislation set for debate Tuesday would prohibit the state Department of ...
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Kerry: Clean energy revolution coming

Boston Globe, United States
"For the first time ever, America will put a price on carbon that will light a fire under our green entrepreneurs, drive development of new clean technologies, re-energize our economy, and tackle global climate change-all at the same time.
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Evolution, Ecosystems May Buffer Some Species Against Climate Change

Science Daily (press release)
5, 2009) - Although ecologists expect many species will be harmed by climate change, some species could be buffered by their potential to evolve or by changes in their surrounding ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the ...
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So Nashville isn't afraid of the dark.

Examiner.com
... them consciously of their own accord decide to live an environmentally healthier life style, than to have an entire day of reminding them how big their carbon foot print is, and how they personally by not driving a hybrid killed a polar bear cub.
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China to plough extra 20% into agricultural production amid fears ...

guardian.co.uk, UK
China will increase spending on agricultural production by 20% this year amid warnings that climate change could spark a future food crisis . Prime minister Wen Jiabao's announcement of an extra 121 billion yuan (��13bn) to boost farm yields and raise ...
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Suppliers blind to climate change effect: report

Livemint, India
Bangalore: Athird of the suppliers to the world's 34 large corporations don't perceive any risk to their business from climate change, says a new study. That's an alarming find because experts say no matter how well an organization manages its ...
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Drought threatens Amazon, speeds global warming: study

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The Amazon tree canopy which absorbs massive amounts of greenhouse gases often succumbs to the effects of dryness, thereby accelerating global warming by not absorbing CO2, scientists said. Drought also accelerates the depletion of the region's carbon ...
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StatoilHydro says subsea carbon store does not leak

Reuters
OSLO (Reuters) - A carbon dioxide store beneath the floor of the North Sea remains tight and is not leaking the greenhouse gas 13 years after storage began, Norwegian oil and gas company StatoilHydro said on Thursday. Companies and scientists have ...
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US Energy Secretary pledges to fight global warming

Reuters India, India
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday pledged to work with Congress to pass legislation that would impose a cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming. "Such legislation will provide the ...
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Unep launches ‘50 by 50’ greenhouse gas emission

Business Mirror, Philippines
THE United Nations Environment Program (Unep) has launched a road map seeking to halve greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles as the world's car fleet is expected to triple by 2050 that will aggravate the effects of climate change.
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Only a Matter of Time for Greenhouse Gas Limits

Kiplinger.com, DC
President Obama isn't the only one pushing for legislation to control greenhouse gas emissions. Even businesses prefer it to a strictly regulatory approach. By Andrew C. Schneider, Associate Editor, The Kiplinger Letter Think greenhouse gas legislation ...
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Global Warming May Get Its Very Own Top Level Domain

Washington Post, United States
Not because it's global warming/eco related, there's plenty of money being thrown around to support just about every crazy green idea out there. I just don't think the world needs another top level domain, and certainly not one that is designed for ...
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IT versus global climate change

InfoWorld, CA
For example, green tech can help combat global climate change, which, if left unstopped, could have devastating effects on the planet and, in turn, the economy. At the same time, green technology offers opportunities for IT organizations to once again ...
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Students rally for climate change in capital

Ithaca College The Ithacan,  USA
"They're thinking about educational opportunities to work with peers to teach about climate change." On Monday, 2000 students participated in the "Capitol Climate Action" rally - separate from Power Shift - outside the Capitol Power Plant to protest ...
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Calpine Receives EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Recognition

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Calpine has the largest fleet of CHP, also known as cogeneration, plants in the US The 2008 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Report issued by the EPA estimated that the high efficiency of Calpine's 32 CHP projects produced an estimated 65.066 million metric ...
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Quest for food security breeds neo-colonialists

Times Online, UK
They are defensive, a response to soaring prices, the fear of climate change and drought. The people of the Middle East are trying to buy a lifeline, knowing full well that oil is pointless when there is nothing to eat. They know about hoarding, ...
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Volunteers Invited to Track Seasonal Signs of Climate Change

Environment News Service
TUCSON, Arizona, March 4, 2009 (ENS) - Citizen scientists are being recruited to help scientists observe the effects of climate change on the behavior of plant and animal species found across the United States. Volunteers are asked to study the ...
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Students Rally for Climate Change Legislation

Voice of America
Organizers say the rally was one of the largest in the US focused on climate change. Despite snow and freezing temperatures, hundreds of students -- appropriately wearing green -- rallied in front of the US Capitol Monday demanding that Congress pass ...
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Textbook, greenhouse gas bills pass Senate

Diamondback Online, MD
Two bills supported by students - the College Textbook Competition and Affordability Act and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act - cleared the state Senate and may be up for a vote in the House of Delegates in a matter of weeks. Sen.
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What does the changing climate have in store for Lane County?

The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR
by Matthew Preusch, The Oregonian University of OregonA new University of Oregon report tries to predict the impacts of climate change in the Upper Willamette Basin. A report from the University of Oregon tries to explain some of the consequences of ...
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South Africa sees binding climate change policy in 3 years

Reuters
By Agnieszka Flak MIDRAND, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa expects to put in place a binding climate change policy within three years to cap emissions by 2020-25, the environment minister said at the launch of a climate summit on Tuesday.
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Climate change hits Wales birds

News Wales, UK
Climate change is having a detectable impact on certain species of birds struggling to survive in Wales. And scientists say we must keep global temperature rise below the 2 degree ceiling - anything above this will create global havoc. the world's ...
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Cricket Terror, Blair on Climate Change, and Nuclear Energy

Council on Foreign Relations, NY
Blair on Climate: The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair urges world leaders not to forget climate change even as the economic meltdown dominates the agenda. He says that while rich countries should take the lead, developing countries, ...
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Curbing emissions among Obama’s goals Doyle embraces cap and trade

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI
"When we undertook this, we understood that a national cap and trade system was far preferable," he said at a climate change symposium on Capitol Hill. "But we didn't want to be totally inactive. I hope that as Congress now moves forward with this ...
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Editorial: Cap-and-trade plan will sink Michigan

DetNews.com, MI
President Barack Obama's proposed cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions is a giant economic dagger aimed at the nation's heartland -- particularly Michigan. It is a multibillion-dollar tax hike on everything that Michigan does, ...
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Climate-change initiatives would require cost analysis

Deseret News, UT
Jon Huntsman Jr. and state legislators to address climate-change issues could be subject to economic-impact studies, under provisions of a bill that passed a Senate committee hearing Tuesday after garnering overwhelming House approval on Monday.
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Senators Debate Global Warming Policy Despite Global Cooling Evidence

CNSNews.com, VA
Democratic senators told CNSNews.com that despite new studies and reports of variations in global temperatures, the federal government should move quickly to implement policies because they believe the debate over global warming is over.
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Dems' Climate Change Power Grab Hidden in Spending Bill

Human Events, DC
... gas emissions across the entire country based on the listing of the polar bear as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Democrats are distorting the intention of the ESA to give the federal government vast new climate change powers, ...
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The Gore Effect

Washington Times, DC
Significant data issues have also arisen, such as the recent discovery of a chunk of Arctic sea ice the size of California that satellites had missed (but which in all probability had been known to polar bears). Back in Washington, a small contingent ...
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Climate change could devastate lizards in the tropics

Mongabay.com
But we can use our data from a third a century ago as a baseline to now predict how lizards at different latitudes would respond to climate change," Huey said. As an example, Huey points to the yellow-chinned anole, anolis gundlachi and the Puerto ...
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The New 'Nuclear Option': Fast-Tracking Climate Change in the Budget

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By Elana Schor - March 3, 2009, 6:27PM President Obama's budget is a veritable road map to a more progressive tax policy, as I noted earlier today, but it also includes specific plans for regulating carbon emissions to fight climate change.
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Cisco, NASA team up to monitor climate change

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Frank Davies WASHINGTON - Cisco and NASA launched a partnership Tuesday to develop new online tools to measure and analyze climate change, aiming for a global platform that would help leaders make decisions on emissions controls.
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Global Warming may stop for years or decades

Examiner.com
Has this late winter storm left you scratching your head about global warming? This winter itself has proved to be cold and snowy for most of the US, including many southern locations (Las Vegas, New Orleans, Houston, and Hawaii).
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Our Nation's Problems Don't Require 'Global' Solutions

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But if that's true, then let me ask you a question: Why is an issue like global warming so high on the president's agenda? The new budget contains a cap-and-trade program that is supposed to limit carbon-dioxide emissions. But if it performs anywhere ...
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Mich. governor to attend climate change symposium

Chicago Tribune, United States
US lawmakers, business leaders and climate change economists also will attend. The symposium features speakers discussing how other countries have successfully battled climate change and what economic opportunities such policies could bring.
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Help scientists track plant and animal cycles

Los Angeles Times, CA
The USA-National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) -- a University of Arizona, Tucson-based group of scientists and citizens that monitors the seasonal cycles of plants and animals -- is calling for volunteers to help track the effect of climate change on ...
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Obama Expected to Revisit Bush Administration Endangered Species ...

NewsHour
"This is a backdoor maneuver to create vast new climate change powers without any public comment or involvement of the American people," said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, according to msnbc.com.
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A Bad Day for a Global Warming Protest

Human Events, DC
Overall, the scene did little to dispel my personal theory that global warming involves more religion than science. By now, the bulk of the warmists stood quivering close by. They differed in a few ways from the anti-war protestors who periodically ...
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SA a greenhouse gas offender: Zuma

Independent Online, South Africa
Cape Town - South Africa is one of world's largest producers of greenhouse gases, ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Monday. Zuma, speaking at the International Commission for a Sustainable World Society in Hermanus in the Western Cape, said South Africa ...
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Aquatic animals emit powerful greenhouse gas

Mongabay.com
A number of water-dwelling species emit the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, researchers announced today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Although nitrous oxide is low in concentration globally, it is considered the fourth ...
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EU Leaves Open Options for Climate Aid to Developing World

Bloomberg
The developing world may need as much as 54 billion euros ($68 billion) a year by 2030 to adapt to climate change, according to UN projections cited by the EU. The European Commission, the 27-nation EU's regulatory arm, in January recommended two ...
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Climate change protest disrupts flights at Aberdeen airport

guardian.co.uk, UK
Climate change protesters today disrupted one of Scotland's busiest airports, setting up a barricade on a taxiway and forcing flights to be suspended. The Plane Stupid campaign group said seven of its members cut through the perimeter fence of Aberdeen ...
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Clean Energy Corps Proposed to Create Jobs, Fight Global Warming

Environment News Service
The Clean Energy Corps would combine job creation, service, and training to combat global warming. "The beauty of the Clean Energy Corps is that it doesn't just create jobs," said Green For All founder Van Jones, "it also creates pathways out of ...
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Baseball hit by global warming, says Texas Rangers coach

guardian.co.uk, UK
"Global warming?" he sniffed. "Well, whatever." Kinsler did appear to agree, however, that the conditions are subtly changing at the Ballpark. "It depends on where you hit the ball and what time of year it is," said Kinsler.
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Md. Senate approves anti-global warming measure

Baltimore Sun, United States
By Gadi Dechter | gadi.dechter@baltsun.com The Maryland Senate passed environmental legislation tonight that aims to substantially curb pollutants linked to global warming. In a 36-9 vote, lawmakers gave final approval to a measure that calls for a 25 ...
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Nature gets makeover in forest lab

Boston Globe, United States
In a bill now being refined, US Representative Edward Markey, the Malden Democrat leading House efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has proposed setting aside a portion of income from auctioning off carbon credits - licenses to cover the amount ...
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Pelosi Snowed-Out of Global Warming Rally

CNSNews.com, VA
had to cancel an appearance Monday at a global warming rally in Washington, DC, that was hit by a snowstorm because her flight was delayed, her office told CNSNews.com. Brianna Cayo-Cotter, the spokesman for the Energy Action Coalition that held the ...
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24's Jack Bauer Fights Bad Guys, Global Warming

E! Online
The network plans to launch a public-service campaign during tonight's two-hour special featuring series star Kiefer Sutherland singing the praises of 24's greener pastures and asking viewers to follow the show's lead to help combat global warming.
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African Mayors Agree to Combat Climate Change

Environment News Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 2, 2009 (ENS) - Mayors from 33 capital and major cities across Africa pledged Friday to quicken climate change adaptation and mitigation plans for their cities. Concluding a two-day meeting in Nairobi, the mayors issued the ...
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EU confident Obama will follow its lead on climate change

AFP
The ministers see the arrival of Obama as a great boost for the chances of agreeing a far-reaching global deal for climate change at talks in Copenhagen in December. Obama's predecessor George W. Bush refused to ratify the Kyoto protocol which the ...
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Volunteers Needed To Help Track Climate Change

KCBS, CA
TUSCON, AZ (KCBS) -- A global warming watchdog appealed for help Monday, asking for volunteers to help them track signs of climate change by observing plants either in backyards or woodlands. "There are about 200 species of plants you can choose from ...
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Warming Up: Climate Change and the Quest for Better Pitchers

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Either way, as Leo Hickman of The Guardian notes, climate change now offers a rich new vein of excuses for under-performing sports teams. Just wait until the season begins to start looking for them...
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Obama’s Budget: From Climate Change to a Climate of Change

Red, Green, and Blue, CA
The new president's budget represents the climate of change Obama has brought to Washington, DC. From reducing the deficit by 1/3 to allocating $634 billion for health care reform over the next decade, "President Obama's new budget represents a huge ...
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Gov. Doyle: Works to fight climate change, develop national clean ...

WisPolitics.com, WI
Tomorrow, Governor Doyle will also participate in the symposium "US Climate Change Action: A Global Economic Perspective" with former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair to discuss how US firms can capture opportunities in, and help to build, ...
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Power Shift ’09: 12000+ Students Attend Largest Youth Summit on ...

Democracy Now, NY
This weekend, an estimated 12000 young people were at the DC Convention Center for Power Shift '09, the largest youth summit on climate change in history. College and high school students from all fifty states, all Canadian provinces, ...
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Servidyne Named 2009 ENERGY STAR(R) Partner of the Year

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Last year alone, Americans with the help of ENERGY STAR saved $19 billion on their energy bills and reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 29 million vehicles. "EPA is pleased to recognize Servidyne for leadership in addressing global ...
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: The High Cost of Climate Lies

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In short, environmental extremism was very good for the careers of those who kept attributing everything from allegedly endangered polar bears to the shrinking snow cover on Mount Kilimanjaro to global warming while warning against it.
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Snowstorm Hits Global Warming Rally

Christian Broadcasting Network, VA
I am not an expert on global warming or environmental issues, but I can pretty confidently say that if I were in charge of any global warming lobbying group, I would stage my most significant events during the months of June, July, or August.
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Snowy Backdrop For Global Warming Protest

CBS News, NY
Several inches of snow will be the backdrop in Washington, DC today for what could be the largest ever US protest of global warming. The nation's capital, along with other eastern US cities, closed schools and businesses Monday after being hit by a ...
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UN report warns fishing industry on climate change

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ROME (AFP) - The fishing industry must do more to confront the effects of climate change as well as get a grip on the perennial problem of overfishing, said a UN report to be published Monday. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report ...
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Firm pledges to cut its greenhouse gases

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
SAP introduced a corporate sustainability office today and pledged to cut its greenhouse gases in half - to 2000 levels - by 2020. The company, based in Germany with labs in Palo Alto, also dedicated 100 employees throughout the organization to making ...
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Researchers tie warming poles to human activity

Canada.com, Canada
The change underway, particularly in the Antarctic, has been one of the most contentious issues in the global warming debate. Some parts of the icy continent, such as the South Pole, are cooling, prompting skeptics to say global warming theories and ...
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China Is Key to Global Climate Solution

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These three points suggest that the most important way to curb global warming may be to capture the greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants, wherever they may be, and store them in a fashion that keeps them out of the atmosphere.
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Scientists urged to step to plate in climate-change politics

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Greenhouse gas emissions are surpassing the "business as usual" projections behind the estimated 6-degree increase, according to research presented by Stanford University's Christopher Field at the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...
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Will the Global Warming protest in Washington, DC be canceled ...

Tampa Bay's 10, FL
One area that appears to be in store for a significant snowfall is Washington, DC where a massive global warming protest is planned for Monday. Winter storm warnings are posted for the area and snow accumulations could reach as high as 6-8" with ...
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Global warming could delay, weaken monsoons: study

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CHICAGO (AFP) - Global warming could delay the start of the summer monsoon by five to 15 days within the next century and significantly reduce rainfall in much of South Asia, a recent study has found. Rising global temperatures will likely lead to an ...
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British explorers depart for North Pole

Malaysia Star, Malaysia
Hadow said that there is no instrumentation on satellites at the moment that can measure ice thickness, so it takes a polar expedition to obtain the data. The team will check weather conditions three times a day, drill into the ice to measure thickness ...
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