US hosts Arctic-Antarctic summit as melting speeds up

eYugoslavia.com, Serbia
A joint study Friday by the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington found that polar ice is melting at a much faster rate than previously thought. The study warns that Arctic summers could be ...
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Analysis: Congress backs some Obama goals, not all

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Obama's plan to tackle global warming fared worse. Nine Democratic senators broke with him on a symbolic but politically resonant vote to cut inheritance taxes. In short, Obama's Democratic allies embraced providing health care to the uninsured, ...
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Analysis: Congress maps rough path to Obama goals

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Obama's plan to tackle global warming fared worse. Nine Democratic senators broke with him on a symbolic but politically resonant vote to cut inheritance taxes. In short, Obama's Democratic allies embraced providing health care to the uninsured, ...
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REFILE-Obama climate plans face long route for passage

Reuters
By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - A US Senate vote this week rejected an effort to put climate-change legislation on a fast track, making it harder for Congress to put limits on greenhouse gas emissions this year.
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Are you ready to report your greenhouse-gas emissions?

Converting Magazine, IL
Converters in Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington must be ready to monitor and report their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions under the Western Climate Initiative. By Jan. 1, 2010, four Canadian provinces and the above ...
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EPA Will Hold Public Hearings April 6, 7 on Greenhouse Gas ...

Environmental Leader, CO
Companies that want to make their opinions known about the Environmental Protection Agency's proposal for greenhouse gas reporting will have a chance to do so publicly. First-year compliance with the rule would cost the private sector $160 million, ...
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Al Gore CTIA Keynote Liveblog

Boy Genius Report, NY
The North Polar ice cap is melting. Been there for three million years and over 40% of it has melted in the last few decades. (Well, you know what they say��� If you want a beach front house, but three rows back and wait ten years���) - BG.
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USGS releases study on ice shelves and climate change

KTVA CBS 11 News Alaska, AK
Antarctica's glaciers are melting more rapidly than previously known because of climate change, according to a new US Geological Survey report prepared in close collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey. The USGS study documents for the first ...
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As West warms, some fear for tiny mountain dweller

LocalNews8.com, ID
Recovery plans could address other specific threats such as grazing or roads - or target certain pika subspecies - but climate change has international causes and implications. The polar bear is already on the endangered species list because of threats ...
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Study: Cool Spells Normal in Warming World

New York Times, United States
That we can get a 10- or even 15-year period with no real change in globally averaged temperature even though in the end we have strong global warming. There was another useful effort by climate scientists and communication specialists this week, ...
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Debris, climate change threaten new Hawaiian marine monument

New York Times, United States
By ALLISON WINTER, Greenwire A remote location and special federal protection can't shield a new Hawaiian national monument from debris, invasive species and climate change, according to a new report. A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom ...
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Climate change report will make a difference

Nashua Telegraph, NH
Having served as a legislative member of the Governor's Policy Task Force on Climate Change, I was pleased to see coverage of our final report in your paper (March 29: "Pollution plan: No time to waste"). The hours of deliberation and consensus ...
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Environment bill can be filibustered

Detroit Free Press, United States
Stabenow spokesman Brad Carroll said Thursday that the senator "continues to work to ensure that climate change legislation is done in a way that will create jobs" and didn't think reconciliation was the way to go.
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Technology Is the Answer to Climate Change

Wall Street Journal
The tenor of international climate negotiations has emboldened the Indian government to claim in a February filing with the United Nations that the West owes it billions of dollars in compensation for climate change. These payments, it said, ...
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New Study: Insurers Move Slowly on Climate Risks

New York Times, United States
By EVAN LEHMANN, ClimateWire Insurers worldwide are gearing up to confront climate change, substantially increasing the number of programs they offer to reduce storm damage, address emissions and encourage renewable energy projects, according to a ...
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Study: Low-Carbon Fuel Standards Are Unlikely to Reduce Warming

New York Times, United States
The idea is to cut carbon emissions from driving, since transportation accounts for more than a quarter of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. California is furthest along in adopting a low-carbon fuels standard. A number of Northeastern states are ...
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Gore meets with LDS leaders to discuss climate change

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US vice president requested the dinner time meeting to discuss climate change and its solutions, sources said. Gore had a brief courtesy visit with President Thomas S. Monson before talking with other church ...
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Health and Climate Change Move onto Very Different Tracks

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Even more telling is the language Republicans are using to try to slow down any move toward climate-change legislation. In fact, they don't even refer to measures-such as the one unveiled this week by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry ...
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Climate-Change Policies Risk Protectionism, China, India Say

Bloomberg
"We should be very careful that climate change doesn't become a peg on which we start hanging protectionist tendencies," Shyam Saran, India's special envoy on climate change, said in an interview in New Delhi two days ago. President Barack Obama has ...
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Thank You Sir, May I Have Another? Will Distorts Global Warming ...

TPMMuckraker, NY
By Zachary Roth - April 2, 2009, 5:50PM We kind of figured George Will would leave the issue of global warming well enough alone after what happened the last time he tried to tackle it. Guess we were wrong. Today, Will waded back into the mire, ...
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Study: Arctic sea ice melting faster than expected

The Associated Press
The finding adds to concern about climate change caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, a problem that has begun receiving more attention in the Obama administration and is part of the G20 discussions under way in London.
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Pelosi Promises Caution on Climate Change Legislation

CQPolitics.com, DC
Faced with a GOP assault on proposed climate change legislation and restiveness within her own ranks, Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged Thursday that any measure the House passes this year won't overly burden utility ratepayers or businesses.
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Oil not to blame for climate change: OPEC

Reuters
By Tom Bergin PARIS (Reuters) - OPEC said oil was not to blame for climate change and consuming countries should pay to fight the threat, while the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell said drivers could help by not buying Hummer sports utility vehicles.
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London G20: Miliband confident on climate change progress

InTheNews.co.uk, UK
The G20 summit will give "momentum" to efforts to reach a global deal on climate change, Ed Miliband has said. Speaking from the excel conference centre in London's Docklands, the energy and climate change secretary said he expected the communique ...
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Greenhouse gas targets bill passes 2nd reading

CBC.ca, Canada
A private member's bill that sets medium- and long-term targets for Canadian greenhouse gas emissions passed its second reading in the House of Commons Wednesday. Bill C-311, the climate change accountability act, passed by a vote of 141-128 with the ...
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EU Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Drop 6%

Wall Street Journal
By LEILA ABBOUD Greenhouse-gas emissions from heavy industry and utilities in the European Union fell 6% last year as the economic downturn slowed industrial activity in everything from construction to auto manufacturing. Some analysts and economists ...
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Satellite Snow Maps Help Reindeer Herders Adapt To A Changing Arctic

Science Daily (press release)
ScienceDaily (Apr. 1, 2009) - Arctic reindeer herders are facing the challenges of adapting to climate change as a warmer Arctic climate makes it harder for herds to find food and navigate. To help them adapt, the ESA-backed Polar View initiative is ...
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Republicans Right to Fight Democrats on Healthcare, Wrong on ...

U.S. News & World Report, DC
The 26 Democrats who voted against using the special rules are mostly fiscal conservatives or are from states whose economies rely on energy production and might be negatively impacted by the expensive global warming policy. Stop an "expensive global ...
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What is the cost of staving off climate change?

Reuters
Republicans in the US Congress say they know how much it is going to cost to save the world from the predicted ravages of climate change. But others say their math is way off. "It would cost every family as much as $3100 a year in additional energy ...
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Climate change may cost California billions

Reuters
By Peter Henderson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Climate change may cost California tens of billions of dollars annually in coming years as sea levels rise and hot days cause people to turn up the air conditioning, a draft report from the state said on ...
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US, China agree to talks on energy, environment, and climate change

Examiner.com
Climate change activists joined the unruly mob in London ahead of what will probably be a more active protest day tomorrow during the actual G-20 meeting set for Thursday. Amongst the chaos and finger pointing, the US was able to show its most recent ...
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2 global-warming commission bills die in Arkansas House committee

KFSM, AR
By AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A pair of bills that were the highlight of the Arkansas Global Warming Commission's legislative package have failed to advance from a House committee. The House Insurance and Commerce Committee voted down a bill Wednesday ...
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Let the NAIC Global Warming Follies Begin!

Insurance Networking News, NY
"Climate change will have huge impacts on the insurance industry and we need better information on how insurers are responding to the challenge," says Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario, who chairs the NAIC Climate Change and Global Warming ...
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House climate bill would hand EPA a heavy workload

New York Times, United States
The draft (pdf) directs EPA to implement several new programs aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting transportation efficiency -- this for an agency trying to revisit Bush-era regulations returned for review by federal courts and set ...
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Scientists worldwide admit global warming is a hoax

Christian Science Monitor, MA
... Committee rescinded the Peace Prize it awarded in 2007 to former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, amid overwhelming evidence that global warming is an elaborate hoax cooked up by Mr. Gore.
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EU:US Climate Plan Will Facilitate Global Deal In Copenhagen

Wall Street Journal
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--A US plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions is "very encouraging" and will facilitate a global deal on fighting climate change later this year, European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said Wednesday.
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Timetable Of Disruption: The Summit Protests

Sky News, UK
The environmental activists say the race against climate catastrophe is being lost. They are asking supporters to bring their own smaller blocks of ice and to dress in white. The protest aims to highlight the fact that polar ice is melting much faster ...
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House bill shifts focus to climate change adaptation

New York Times, United States
But for many environmental and sustainability groups, what is notable is the bill's focus on helping communities and ecosystems deal with climate change that is unavoidable, based on the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
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Changing course EPA policy shifts under Obama are a welcome break ...

Houston Chronicle, United States
The coalition of states then filed suit, and in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the EPA had the authority to decide whether greenhouse gas emissions qualified as pollution under the Clean Air Act. Bush EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson refused to ...
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Analysis: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy.
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In The Dark About Energy And Global Warming

Post Chronicle
Think about it: Liberal foolishness, like the farcical global warming crisis, which is really a product of Al Gore's mid-life crisis and Tipper's hot flashes, simply cannot survive the light of day. Sober thought and intelligent debate are possible ...
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President Obama serious about climate change

Examiner.com
President Obamas bold stance on climate change is about saving us. Without a sustainable Earth, our future and the future of our children and grandchildren is threatened by the effects of climate change: drought, floods, fires, and sea level rise will ...
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New greenhouse gases targeted by UN talks

AFP
The synthetic compounds are potent greenhouse gases that could, if produced in large quantities, contribute significantly to global warming, scientists warn. "In terms of the impact these new gases will have over the next decade, it is not that ...
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Highlights of draft bill to curb global warming

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_ Sets increasingly tighter limits on greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities, oil companies and large industrial sources. They would have to reduce global warming gases by 3 percent below 2005 levels in 2012, 20 percent in 2020, 42 percent in ...
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College Students Heed Warning on Climate Change, Engage in ...

Huffington Post, NY
Take a look at this map to see where you stand: America's Greenest Campus now gives the campus communities, the tools and knowledge to reduce their energy use, save money and reverse climate change, all in a way that's easy, fun and effective.
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Public Comments Urge Halt to Arctic Ocean Petro-Development

Environment News Service
"Polar bears, walruses and whales are already struggling to survive in the face of global warming. Native communities that rely on subsistence for survival are already challenged by impacts from a warming Arctic. An oil spill could tip the balance ...
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exxonmobil

The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel, NJ
With this new energy demand, we also foresee an increase in greenhouse-gas emissions associated with energy use. Globally, the Outlook for Energy expects energy-related carbon-dioxide emissions to rise by an average of one percent per year through the ...
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Obama Administration Moves Ahead On Climate Change

The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel, NJ
Henry Waxman (D-CA), for example, chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee and plans to pass a climate change bill out of his committee by Memorial Day. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has stated his intent to begin debating a ...
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Democrats unveil global warming bill

Boston Globe, United States
Environmentalists are urging Congress to adopt a global warming policy in advance of international climate talks in Copenhagen scheduled for December, where leaders have agreed to update the Kyoto Protocol, which the Bush administration refused to sign ...
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Climate change experts call on G20 members to commit to action

guardian.co.uk, UK
The move comes amid fears amongst some British government officials that the G20 summit is in danger of missing a unique opportunity to prevent the world from being locked into irreversible and catastrophic climate change.
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Global warming could melt winter sport industry: report

CBC.ca, Canada
Global warming could cripple Canada's winter sports industry, according to a report published by the David Suzuki Foundation. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) Global warming could cripple winter sports and winter tourism in Canada, according to a ...
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New Breakthrough In Global Warming Plant Production

Science Daily (press release)
30, 2009) - Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford have made a discovery about plant growth which could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases. Dr Kerry Franklin, from the University of ...
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Obama gives best clean energy and global warming solutions job to ...

Grist Magazine, WA
Of the 12 to 14 most plausible wedges the world needs to stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm -- the full global warming solution -- EERE is the principal federal agency for working with businesses to develop and deploy the technology for 11 of them! ...
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Mayor Menino, former VP Al Gore trumpet greenhouse gas reduction

Metro.us, NY
Former Vice President Al Gore joined Boston Mayor Thomas Menino yesterday at the Latin School to announce $6.5 million in federal funding for "Renew Boston" which plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions throughout Boston. boston.
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House Democrats Plan to Introduce Greenhouse-Gas Bill

Washington Post, United States
By Juliet Eilperin Key House Democrats will unveil legislation Tuesday that aims to cut the nation's greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, according to sources familiar with the bill who asked not to be identified.
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Alstom and Dow Collaborate to Combat Climate Change

FOXBusiness
Alstom, a world leader in power generation, and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), a global gas treating industry leader, announce the design and construction of a pilot plant to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue gas of a coal-fired boiler ...
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Pro-Con | Does climate change play a role in the Red River flooding?

Kansas City Star, MO
It's interesting that the same people who think that a climate change event occurring on the same day as it snows somewhere ought to dominate the press coverage never seem to think it might be worth investigating the climate change angle to, say, ...
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Ukraine will get $560 m from sale of greenhouse gas quotas to Japan

Onet.pl, Poland
Ukraine will receive UAH 4.5 billion, or $560 million in the US dollar equivalent, from the sale of greenhouse gas emissions quotas to Japan, Ukrainian Prime-Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a press conference on Saturday on her visit to Japan.
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How much greenhouse gas are you producing?

Examiner.com
Rather than focus on flatulence, the United States Environmental Protection Agency provides a Household Emissions Calculator that examines your use of greenhouse gas producing activities such as heating your home or driving your car.
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NASA Flies to Greenland to Extend Polar Science

Space Ref (press release)
"It's research like this on sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet that we use to understand how the polar regions are connected to global climate change and discover what changes are going on in atmospheric and ocean circulations," said Tom Wagner, ...
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2010 Games officials eye global warming costs

Reuters
The Suzuki Foundation, which is working with VANOC, released its own report on Sunday warning that global warming is a threat to traditional winter Olympic sports in Canada as shorter winters leading to less ice and snow. (Reporting by Allan Dowd; ...
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Mel Martinez criticizes Obama's greenhouse gas and health care plans

Tampabay.com, FL
His first targets: a plan that would penalize polluters who exceed permitted greenhouse gas emissions, and the president's health care plan. Speaking at the Tampa Port Authority today, Martinez said the cap-and-trade plan, expected to raise ...
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Latest Cola Wars Skirmish: Battle for the Greenest Vending Machines

Fast Company
BY Ariel Schwartz 58 minutes ago Vending machine purchases often elicit feelings of guilt about the sugar and fat contents of soda and candy, but rarely about the greenhouse gas emissions of the machine itself. Soda vendors know, though, ...
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Greenpeace: Forests don't belong in carbon market

BusinessWeek
By VANESSA GERA Environmental group Greenpeace on Monday criticized plans by some countries to tackle global warming by letting polluting industries in wealthy nations offset carbon emissions by replanting tropical forests. Greenpeace said that the ...
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UN’s Global Climate Change Plan Would Cause Economic Earthquake

Heritage.org, DC
While an earthquake shifts the ground beneath our feet, the United Nation's climate change proposal would shift trillions of dollars in wealth transfers and entail " job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, ...
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earthtalk: What Are the Leading Proposed Technological Fixes to ...

MidwestBusiness.com, IL
Dear earthtalk: What are some of the leading proposed technological fixes for staving off global warming? How feasible are they? ~ James Harris; Columbus, Ohio earthtalk response: While most of the world fixates on how to reduce the amount of carbon ...
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Follow the lead of sciences: Don’t play loose with facts

Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA
There'sa bigger issue: It's misleading to draw parallels between "global cooling" concerns articulated in the 1970s and global warming concerns today. In the 1970s, climate research was a relatively young field and scientific understanding of ...
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Global-warming skeptics discover that plants like carbon dioxide

Examiner.com
"I just watched a movie on Global Warming and it said CO2 is very good for plants. I didn't know they used it greenhouses to benefit plants. Experts in the movie stated that plants can thrive on less water in a high CO2 environment.
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Obama's phrasing on global warming gets warm reception in Alabama

al.com, AL
WASHINGTON - It was just two little words in President Barack Obama's primetime news conference last week, but they carried great significance in Alabama, where there is fear that his global warming agenda will do more harm than good in the South.
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EPA proposes national Greenhouse Gas emissions inventory reporting ...

Examiner.com
EPA finally proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Rules yesterday after a two year delay from the Bush Administration, ordered by the Supreme Court. The rules don't go far enough, only capturing a few major sources of ghgs and CO2 equivalent ...
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Flatulent cows could be curtailed by fish oils

CNN
Lowering methane emissions is important for the environment, as the gas given off by farm animals is a major contributor to greenhouse gas levels. More than a third of all methane emissions, around 900 billion tonnes every year, are produced by ...
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Factbox: Greenhouse Gas Goals Proposed At UN Climate Talks

Post Chronicle
by Staff Following are proposals for greenhouse gas targets to be considered at UN talks on a new climate treaty in Bonn, Germany, from March 29-April 8. The talks are the first this year in a two-year push to agree a new UN climate treaty in ...
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A dark hour for global warming

Times of India, India
But now, people have shown great understanding about the threat that global warming poses." Saurav Jindal, an executive with a multinational company, said, "From early Saturday morning, I started receiving smses asking me to observe Earth Hour.
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readers' comments

New York Times, United States
Americans are too lazy and spoiled to worry about climate change; others in counties like Mexico, where I'm visiting, are too poor to notice. And leaders everywhere pander to the public mindset. Mr. Friedman did not mention the recent Times story about ...
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Ample evidence Florida's feeling effects of climate change

Palm Beach Post,  United States
The last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that tropical cyclones (which we call hurricanes) are increasing in intensity in some ocean basins, especially in the North Atlantic basin where hurricanes form, because of warming ...
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Transcorp Hilton Joins Climate Change Initiative

THISDAY, Nigeria
Initiated in Australia in 2007, WWF Earth Hour is a global campaign created to underscore the connection between energy usage and climate change, with the aim to reach out to more than one billion people, including individuals, businesses and ...
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Obama praised for climate change policy

United Press International
BRUSSELS, March 28 (UPI) -- US President Barack Obama has drawn praise from his European counterparts for his commitment to fight global climate change. Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursik, whose country holds the European Union's rotating ...
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EPA closer to global warming warning

Ynetnews, Israel
... under the Clean Air Act. Politicians and the public, business and industry will have to weigh in along the way, but for now a proposed finding by the EPA that global warming is a threat to public health and welfare is under White House review.
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IN THE MAIL: Budget must reflect global-warming concerns

Grand Forks Herald, ND
In just two months, President Barack Obama has set the nation in a new direction when it comes to transitioning to a clean energy economy and stopping global warming. Obama's proposed budget lays out a framework for action on these issues, ...
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