Mar 21, 2009

Global warming? More doubts

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA
New studies suggest that "global warming" -- no matter if its origins are proffered as man-made or part of a natural cycle -- might soon require a new name. Can you say "global stasis" or "global cooling"? Scientists at the University of ...
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The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
They were disconcerted to see one of those polar bears, threatened with extinction by global warming, wandering around, doubtless eyeing them for its dinner. But at least one of the intrepid trio was able to send a birthday message to his mum, ...
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Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues

The Associated Press
Driving Lasse, Stein Tronstad of the Norwegian Polar Institute monitored a radar mounted like a prow on his ice "ship," searching ahead in the blinding white landscape for crevasses, the deep fissures that wrecked earlier expeditions. Far to the rear, ...
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Obama Says His Budget Would Put Economy on ‘Firm Foundation’

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The CBO figures will likely make it harder for Obama to win approval of major items on his agenda, including plans to expand health-care coverage and rein in greenhouse gas emissions. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, delivering the Republicans ...
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Polar Bears Could Disappear by 2050 Unless action is taken soon

Softpedia, Romania
It's estimated that, by 2050, the entire polar species could go extinct, and authorities are not about to let that happen. Representatives from Russia, the United States, Denmark, Canada and Norway have said in a common statement that, "Climate change ...
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Kerry focuses on global warming

News & Observer, NC
By Jay Price - Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL -- Americans should treat the fight against global warming as this generation's civil rights movement, rising up against companies that are planning a massive lobbying campaign to block efforts to reduce carbon ...
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Mar 20, 2009

Climate Change Myths and Facts

Washington Post, United States
Yet there's a bigger issue: It's misleading to draw a parallel between "global cooling" concerns articulated in the 1970s and global warming concerns as they exist today. In the 1970s, the field of climate research was in a comparatively fledgling ...
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Price rises in greenhouse-gas auction

NH Primary, NH
The third quarterly auction of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative produced a price of $3.51 per allowance, each of which allows the release of a ton of CO2 into the atmosphere. This is slightly higher than the $3.38 price from the auction in ...
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Michael Steele: ‘We Are Not Warming’

New York Times, United States
In a March 6 radio appearance that is only now percolating through the blogosphere, Mr. Steele apparently fielded a skeptic's question about global warming. As transcribed by the liberal blog, the Huffington Post, Mr. Steele thanked the questioner and ...
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Brines on Mars

Science News
The surprisingly high concentration of perchlorate salts found in the Martian polar soil by Phoenix's wet chemistry lab last year - as much as a few percent - could mean that shallow, extremely briny reserves of water lie just below much of the Martian ...
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In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise

New York Times, United States
But an accidental discovery by desperate delta folk here may hold clues to how Bangladesh, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change, could harness some of that dark, rich Himalayan muck to protect itself against sea level rise.
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Stillwater girl organizes local talent show to help polar bears

KARE, MN
A Stillwater girl concerned about polar bears threatened by climate change is doing something about it: She's organized a benefit talent show. Nine-year-old Michelle Bergh says it broke her heart when she saw a television special about the bears.
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EU 'jeopardising fight against climate change'

guardian.co.uk, UK
Climate change has directly affected the lives of people in developing countries such as Bangladesh. Photograph: Hassan Bipul/DFID Green campaigners today accused EU leaders of jeopardising the global fight against climate change by refusing to commit ...
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EU fails to commit to climate change aid

AFP
Pressure is mounting ahead of global climate change talks to be held in Copenhagen in December. "It would be inopportune for the European Union to be too precise on their funding objectives now, while the negotiations are going on," one diplomat said.
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Senate's Conrad sees $1.6 trillion in extra deficit

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Conrad also said he did not plan to include any instructions in the budget plan he is crafting for health care or the greenhouse gas initiatives. Such instructions written into the budget would give it a privileged status and make it easier to become ...
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Chinese hold US feet to fire on global warming

Seattle Post Intelligencer
By JOEL CONNELLY Although his country now leads the world in greenhouse gas emissions, a top Chinese official on Wednesday sought to turn up the heat on the United States for talking a good line on global warming -- but not acting. Sen.
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Mar 19, 2009

Pioneering ecologist to head NOAA

Los Angeles Times, CA
Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State says she's eager to take on issues including global warming, polluted coastal waters and severely depleted fish populations. By Kenneth R. Weiss The US Senate late Thursday gave its blessing to key members of President ...
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Soil neglected asset in greenhouse gas fight

Reuters UK, UK
Ibbett's plant, 90 km (56 miles) north of London, traps methane emissions from food and farm waste in giant vats and then burns the powerful greenhouse gas to produce electricity, so preventing it from reaching the atmosphere. Farmers are famously not ...
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New tenants at your birdbath? Global warming may be to blame

Medill Reports, IL
Global warming may be to blame by Amanda Hughes Bird ranges have shifted progressively northward over the last 40 years. The Audubon Society has controversially linked this shift to climate change. "Center of abundance" refers to density.
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Climate change deniers have a media outlet 'everywhere'

Raw Story, MA
Despite the success of public awareness efforts on the dangers of climate change by the likes of Al Gore and others, the global warming denial lobby is still going strong as can be seen by recent polling numbers that show fewer Americans believe ...
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Another Survey Finds Global Warming A Low Priority For Americans

The Business Insider, NY
A new survey conducted by George Mason University and Yale Project for Climate Change, find that American's rank global warming as the 10th most important national priority out of 11. This is in line with a Gallup Poll from last week that found the ...
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Global Warming Skeptics Gather in NYC

The Heartland Institute, IL
The world's largest-ever gathering of global warming skeptics was scheduled to assemble in New York City in March to confront the issue, "Global warming: Was it ever really a crisis?" As this issue of Environment & Climate News went to press, ...
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Voluntary climate programs may get a face-lift under cap and trade

New York Times, United States
"I'd say their biggest success is that they were informational," said Stephen Seidel, vice president for policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. That information went two ways, explained Maria Vargas, with EPA's partnership programs ...
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Investment trumps environmental regulation

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Yet, today, environmental organizations have largely relegated images of polar bears and melting ice flows to the back pages of their magazines. Green jobs and clean energy investment are the eco-ideas of the moment. This new post-environmental ...
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Mar 18, 2009

Explorers On Global Warming Expedition Stranded in North Pole by ...

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Three global warming researchers stranded in the North Pole by cold weather were holding out hope Wednesday as a fourth plane set off in an attempt deliver them supplies. The flight took off during a break in bad weather after "brutal" conditions ...
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Scientists Get Radical in Bid to Halt Global-Warming ‘Catastrophe’

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They warned that global temperature increases averaging more than 7 Fahrenheit were now possible and that human-generated CO2 could also acidify the world's oceans, wiping out life forms ranging from tiny plankton to coral reefs...
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GOP chair denies global warming

Christian Science Monitor, MA
Mr. Steele who was filling in for conservative pundit Bill Bennett on Bennett's drive-time "Morning in America" call-in show on March 6, responded to a caller who mocked the concept of global warming. Here is Steele's response, as transcribed by the ...
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Climate change messes with the food chain

Christian Science Monitor, MA
Scientists concerned with the biological effects of climate change are focusing on what some call "the grass of the sea." These are tiny water plants known technically as phytoplankton. Like the green grass on which cattle feed, these little plants are ...
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Complex path for climate bills in Congress

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(Reuters) - Congress is expected to tackle climate change this year with bills aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and encouraging cleaner alternative energy and more efficient delivery of electricity. Climate change legislation is complicated ...
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New government brochure promotes ‘climate literacy’

Examiner.com
With the constant din of conflicting information on manmade climate change, some coming from within these very pages, it may be difficult for the layman to understand climate change and what it potentially means for the Earth.
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Antarctic drilling yields global warming insights

Chicago Tribune, United States
By William Mullen | Tribune reporter Scientists studying the geophysical mechanisms behind the periodic cycles of freezing and melting at the polar ends of the earth reported today that Earth is headed toward another thaw, though it might take a ...
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Scientists Offer More Evidence of Polar Meltdown

Voice of America
... working for the United Nations Climate Panel on emissions of hydrocarbons (greenhouse gases) theorize. Last month, scientists contributing to the UN Polar Year survey said ice caps on both poles are melting at a much faster pace than expected.
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Europe, US to work together on global warming

The Associated Press
After spending years encouraging the Bush administration to take action, three European environmental ministers said Tuesday that the US appears ready to work with them on a new international agreement to curb the emissions blamed for global warming.
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UN climate chief hustles on global warming deal

Reuters
By Gerard Wynn COPENHAGEN, Mar 17 (Reuters) - Big gaps remain in a new UN deal on global warming meant to be agreed in December and time is running worryingly short with just 265 days left, the UN climate chief said on Tuesday.
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UK climate change targets 'not tough enough'

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Tough UK targets to cut greenhouse gases are too weak to help prevent the temperature rises which could lead to dangerous climate change, scientists have warned. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent At the end of last year Government advisers ...
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Global warming is still up for debate

Daily Comet, LA
Does the Courier never tire of printing editorials by left wingers who belong to the "Facts Don't Matter" school, ie the March 5 guest column by Mark Hertsgaard on "global warming." (Writer's credentials: environmental correspondent for The Nation, ...
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Washington governor steps in to rescue climate bill

Los Angeles Times, CA
If you want to know how the political winds are going to blow around President Obama's proposal to force nationwide cuts on greenhouse gas emissions, look at Washington state, where Gov. Chris Gregoire is struggling to salvage her climate bill from the ...
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Mar 17, 2009

Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Interior Secretary ...

Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ
Coal development destroys public lands, and its subsequent combustion is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions and resulting climate disruption. "Today, the administration decided to sanction rather than phase out our nation's continued, ...
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Mr. President, it is time for a speech on climate change

Mongabay.com
Now that Barack Obama has been president for nearly two months, it is time for him to give a defining speech on climate change. While Obama has spent most of his time on what the majority of Americans consider the most pressing issue-the economy-he has ...
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NASA scientist to lead British climate change protest

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In another example of scientists politicizing the climate change debate, Dr. James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, will lead a protest in Britain in an attempt to put pressure of the nation's government to fight manmade ...
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More than 700 scientists discredit man-made global warming fears

Examiner.com
"59" might be the magic number for Americans to start thinking twice about global warming fears. 59 scientists around the world have officially added their names to the much-publicized US Senate Minority Report that denounces claims about man-made ...
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Scheme to Curb Global Warming Could Backfire

LiveScience.com, NY
Credit: Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory One proposed plan to save the planet from global warming - by injecting particles to intercept the sun's light - would have the unintended, and ironic, effect of making a key alternative ...
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India hits out at developed nations on climate change issue

Press Trust of India, India
New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) India today strongly hit out at developed nations for putting "conditions" and "adding dimensions" such as carbon tariff and trade competitiveness for action on climate change. "Action on climate change cannot be based on ...
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APX Links International Greenhouse Gas Transaction Registries

Business Wire (press release), CA
APX is the leading infrastructure provider for environmental and energy markets in renewable energy and greenhouse gases including carbon commodities. Providing a bank and mint for environmental commodities, APX solutions are trusted to create, track, ...
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Mar 16, 2009

Experts forecast probability of global warming tipping points

Mongabay.com
The likelihood of a permanent el Ni��o - which would trigger changes in rainfall and temperature around the global - or a catastrophic die-off (more than 50 percent) of the Amazon rainforest was estimated at about 50 percent under a high warming ...
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China will follow the US: a climate change fable

On Line opinion, Australia
By Derek Scissors - posted Tuesday, 17 March 2009 President Obama's emphasis on climate change has notable implications for US-China relations. On her inaugural trip to Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to expand the Sino-American ...
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8 Dems oppose quick debate on global warming bill

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Eight Senate Democrats are opposing speedy action on President Barack Obama's bill to combat global warming, complicating prospects for the legislation and creating problems for their party's leaders. The eight Democrats disapprove of ...
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Steele: The Supposed Global Warming Is Part Of The Global Cooling ...

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By Eric Kleefeld - March 16, 2009, 2:09PM Michael Steele has taken the GOP's global-warming denial to a new height: "We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my fingers as quotation marks, ...
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Climate-related Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula Being Driven ...

National Science Foundation (press release)
A warm, moist maritime climate has moved into the northern Peninsula region, pushing the continental, polar conditions southward. As a result, the prevalence of species that depend on sea ice, such as Adelie penguins, Antarctic silverfish and krill, ...
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Lawmakers thwart Gregoire's cap-and-trade plan on climate

Seattle Times, United States
When it comes to climate change, "absent the governor pulling a rabbit out of the hat, cap-and-trade is dead as a doornail," Traisman said. A top Gregoire official signaled the administration isn't pushing for a state-level cap-and-trade program at ...
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US, China, Europe should tax CO2

Reuters India, India
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, March 16 (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama should seek an alliance with China and Europe to tax greenhouse gas emissions and abandon his plans for carbon trading, a leading US scientist said on ...
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Gore's big lie: the global warming hoax

Examiner.com
from the Oregon Petition, signed by over 31000 scientists Al Gore recently took on his critics by claiming that 'the science is settled' concerning global warming. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ever since collectivists initiated the 'global ...
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EPA Proposes Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule

Linex Legal, UK
The EPA has announced its long-awaited proposed rule creating a mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) registry covering 85 to 90 percent of US GHG emissions. EPA Proposes Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule Environmental Alert James P. Rathvon Andrew B.
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Pikas, penguins and polar bears

Aspen Times, CO
Pikas in Colorado's alpine zone, penguins in Antarctica and polar bears don't have much in common at first glance, but all three animals are losing ground to a changing climate. As a result, the federal government will have to consider how agency ...
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Gas guzzlers

The Engineer, UK
The CNG vehicles are expected to emit approximately 25 per cent less greenhouse gas emissions than those traditionally powered by gasoline. The vehicle chassis will be built by a US automotive manufacturer. AT&T will then work with US suppliers to ...
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Taxes must rise to pay for climate change, MPs warn

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Last week, the world's leading climate change scientists, gathered in Copenhagen, issued a desperate plea to politicians to take urgent action on climate change or risk catastrophic global warming. But in their report, the MPs expose the timidity of ...
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Climate change blues: how scientists cope

AFP
And that's not the worst of it, said top researchers gathered here last week for a climate change conference which heard, among other bits of bad news, that global sea levels are set to rise at least twice as fast over the next century as previously ...
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Mar 15, 2009

UK centre to keep watch on Earth

BBC News, UK
It will also study the way atmospheric pollution is transported around the globe and the public health issues that such transport creates, as well as continuing to refine knowledge of the changes taking place in polar ice cover.
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Business prospects in climate change touted

Business Mirror, Philippines
COPENHAGEN-The world's top scientists have warned that climate change is accelerating beyond the worst predictions and urged governments to "vigorously" implement the economic and low carbon technologies tools available in fight against global warming.
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Obama administration may revive carbon-capture project

Kansas City Star, MO
Energy Secretary Steven Chu told the Senate Energy Committee this month that giving up coal would mean higher electricity rates and higher natural-gas prices as companies shifted to natural gas, which burns with far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than ...
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Warming to make NY vulnerable to storms: study

Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global warming should lift sea levels along the US Northeast nearly twice as fast as global rates this century, putting New York City at risk to damage from hurricanes and winter storm surges, scientists said.
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Maldives first to go carbon neutral

guardian.co.uk, UK
The announcement comes only days after scientists issued stark new warnings that rising seas caused by climate change could engulf the Maldives and other low-lying nations this century. The president will formally announce the scheme - and make a plea ...
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Polar Bears Are In Serious Trouble

HealthNewsDigest.com, NY
"My decision is based on a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts." The real story is that affording the polar bear endangered species protection would bring ...
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Flip Side Of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Rashes From ...

MedIndia, India
As Britain is switching over to fluorescent lamps in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, experts are warning some persons could be allergic to the new lighting system. Doctors say scores of people are coming forward with skin complaints after ...
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