Global warming: Realists seek a middle ground

Florida Times-Union, FL
The coldest winter in a decade in many places has deflated some of the hot air in global warming. Those opposing this "government scare" were present at the International Conference on Climate Change, which was held early in March in New York City.
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Expert: Don't 'rinky-dink around the margins' of climate change

Seattle Post Intelligencer
Another tactic, pinning hopes on coming up with game-changing new green technologies, is just another way of not doing anything about climate change, he said. "We have the technology to solve climate change." And we don't have time to wait, he said, ...
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Climate change will set back ozone layer recovery: NASA

Hindu, India
"Most studies of ozone and global change have focussed on cooling in the upper stratosphere," said Feng Li, atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and co-author of the study. "But we find circulation is just as important.
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Obama, Who Vowed Rapid Action on Climate Change, Turns More Cautious

New York Times, United States
Keith McCoy, vice president for energy and resources policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, said his organization was "strongly opposed to an EPA regulatory process for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act." Mr. McCoy said his ...
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Skeptics challenge global warming causes

Pasadena Star-News, CA
Dear EarthTalk: I keep meeting people who say that human-induced global warming is only theory, that just as many scientists doubt it as believe it. Can you settle the score? So-called "global warming skeptics" are indeed getting more vocal than ever, ...
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Arctic Ice Is Melting

Washington Post, United States
The polar bear is now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. But we're all threatened as long as the build-up of greenhouse gases renders climate studies and models seemingly obsolete the moment they're released...
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ENVIRONMENT: Earth's Arctic Freezer Turning Into Hothouse

IPS, Italy
Polar amplification is the reason why climate change is warming the Arctic far faster than anywhere else. A combination of processes and feedbacks in the region have resulted a three to five degree Celsius warming already.
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Report: Climate Provision Would Allow Global Warming 'Victims' to Sue

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Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts would allow global warming victims to sue. An under-the-radar provision in a House climate bill would give plaintiffs who claim to be victims of global warming a way to sue the federal ...
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Chu wants labs to work on energy, climate change

Bizjournals.com, NC
To help turn the ship, Chu wants to expand work at the Department of Energy's national laboratories to include research on climate change and development of alternative energy. Nuclear security remains critical to the labs' core mission, ...
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Dissenter on Warming Expands His Campaign

New York Times, United States
By LESLIE KAUFMAN WASHINGTON - Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with those who do. Marc Morano, a former spokesman for Republicans on the Senate environmental committee.
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Seals and robotic subs monitor Antarctic climate change

CNN International
Among efforts to study the effects of climate change on Antarctica, was a Norwegian Polar Institute led project to study marine mammals. Custom-designed tags were attached to elephant seals to study the animals' habits, although researcher realized ...
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Crisis gives Asia opportunity to address climate change

GMA news.tv, Philippines
MANILA, Philippines - Environmental activists asked Asian leaders attending a meeting in Thailand to turn the current financial crisis into "an opportunity for addressing runaway climate change." "The economic stimulus package being proposed for the ...
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Global warming endangers U.S. corn production, study says

Los Angeles Times, CA
The report by Environment America contradicts contentions that moderate warming would actually boost crop yields. The US could lose $1.4 billion in annual corn revenue, the report says. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington -- Global warming ...
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Obama Considers Blocking the Sun to Fight Global Warming

Opposing Views, CA
In an interview with the Associated Press, he observed that global warming is happening very rapidly, and so all options must be considered. "It's got to be looked at," Holdren said. "We don't have the luxury ... of ruling any approach off the table.
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The Waxman-Markey climate change bill would be a bold step forward ...

guardian.co.uk, UK
Things are finally aligned in the US Congress to pass sweeping climate change legislation. The new chairman of the relevant committee, California's Henry Waxman, has been on the right side of the issue for years. His deputy, so to speak, ...
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Audience takes sides on climate change at Bachmann forum

St. Cloud Times, MN
In front of a crowd of more than 400 people gathered at Atwood Memorial Center to hear her talk about climate change, Bachmann said she would oppose a carbon cap-and-trade proposal. Among other reasons, she said it was because she believed it would ...
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Climate change may alter wildfire patterns

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BERKELEY, Calif., April 9 (UPI) -- A University of California-Berkeley and Texas Tech University study suggests climate change will result in major shifts of worldwide fire patterns. In research, called the first of its kind, scientists used European ...
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Solar Cooker Heats Up $75K Climate Change Contest

GreenBiz, CA
The Kyoto Box won the FT Climate Change Challenge, a global competition with a $75000 purse aimed at finding the best innovations to address climate change. The inventor, Kenya-based entrepreneur Jon B��hmer, will use the prize to fund large-scale ...
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CBO Report: Ethanol Mandates Drive Up Food Prices, Fail To Lower ...

KXMC, ND
Also, government-sponsored subsidies and mandates for ethanol to be mixed with gasoline are supposed to help foster US energy independence and to cut down on greenhouse-gas emissions, but only have reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by less than ...
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What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia

Los Angeles Times, CA
Drought, fires, killer heat waves, wildlife extinction and mosquito-borne illness -- the things that climate change models are predicting have already arrived there, they say. By Julie Cart Reporting from The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia -- Frank ...
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Energy and climate change

Economist, UK
If the science of climate change is fast-moving, the politics are even faster, with a huge array of treaties, promises, pledges and targets giving the appearance of lots of action-but with little actually being achieved. Three books take very different ...
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'Special Report' Panel on President Obama's Whirlwind Trip Abroad

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BAIER: While the president was in Turkey today, he made news on one of his favorite topics, global warming. OBAMA: We have to make sure that our actions are responsible. So on the international issues like climate change, we have to take leadership.
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U. prof urges lands protection against climate change

Deseret News, UT
"Laws do not fully protect park lands and resources, and they are decidedly not designed to address the additional challenges associated with climate change," Robert B. Keiter told a field hearing of the House Natural Resources subcommittee on national ...
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Obama science advisor advocates climate engineering

Examiner.com
The radical and somewhat controversial technology would require an extraordinary intervention by man in an attempt to purposely influence the climate. Mr. Holdren feels however the dangers of climate change could leave Earth with little choice.
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Climate change is too big a problem to be left to the ...

guardian.co.uk, UK
But only governments can save us from catastrophic climate change. There is far more that our political leaders could and should do, right now, to accelerate investment in low-carbon energy, housing and transport infrastructure and help individuals to ...
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Bonn climate talks create better atmosphere, but few results

New York Times, United States
These discussions are part of a series of meetings under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that are aimed at producing a new global emission reduction treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol at a UN-sponsored meeting in Copenhagen in ...
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Climate Change To Spur Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots, Analysis ...

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 8, 2009) - Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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Who will pay?

Plant Services, IL
So, the world's leading greenhouse gas emitters are grappling to determine which country will lose more ground as a consequence of cleaning up our acts. US Energy Secretary David Chu recently suggested that the United States might use tariffs against ...
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Obama’s Europe trip: ‘A good opening act’

Christian Science Monitor, MA
For example, he says, Obama repeatedly cited America's determination to play a leading role in addressing global warming, a position at odds with that of President Bush. And Obama will not come home entirely empty handed. Mr. Inderfurth points to some ...
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White House says action on climate, economy go hand in hand

New York Times, United States
"The carbon price signal created by a cap-and-trade system will encourage energy efficiency, the low-hanging fruit of greenhouse gas emissions reductions," CEQ Chairwoman Nancy Sutley said during a carbon markets conference in Washington.
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Want a climate change pin-up? Pika cute one with big eyes

guardian.co.uk, UK
What would set the pika apart from other species on that list, if it is included, is that it would be the first species from the 48 lower US states to be included due to the effect climate change is having on its habitat. Studies have already shown how ...
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Climate Change and International Competitiveness

Center For American Progress, DC
Mike Doyle (D-PA) to provide rebates to eligible US manufacturers that emit lots of greenhouse gas emissions in their production processes so that these companies are not placed at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace.
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Obama Sees US As Global Leader on Climate Change, Nukes

CNSNews.com, VA
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor (CNSNews.com) - Speaking to students in Turkey on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said the United States must "take leadership" on global issues such as climate change and nuclear disarmament. "If we are producing a lot of ...
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Cutting greenhouse gas

Australia.TO, Australia
The Queensland Government has secured funding for three new, major research projects aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas belched out by livestock. Primary Industries and Fisheries in the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation ...
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EPA Inviting Public Comment on National ‘Greenhouse Gas Reporting ...

CNSNews.com, VA
By Susan Jones, Senior Editor (cnsnews.com) - The Environmental Protection Agency is holding the first of two public hearings this week on the nation's first greenhouse gas reporting rule. That rule will determine which companies are covered by an ...
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US power plant carbon emissions fell in 2008: study

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US President Barack Obama has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and more than 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. To reach these goals Obama is pushing Congress to pass legislation establishing a system ...
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NASA satellite shows Arctic sea on thin ice -- literally

Computerworld, MA
A little more than a year ago, the Discovery Channel launched a new 3-D application called Earth Live that enables users to interact with scientific data and visualize events like climate change and polar melting in real time. Using data collected from ...
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Planning ahead for a carbon-constrained world

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI
By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel The staff of the state Public Service Commission will prepare recommendations on ways that Wisconsin can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective way, the commission announced.
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Carbon cap deal "very difficult": UN climate chief

Reuters UK, UK
The talks are split on the level of action which industrialized countries take to curb their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. More ambitious goals would unlock action from developing nations. "I'm not ruling it out but I'm saying it would be very ...
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Debating Cap-and- _____ (Fill in the Blank)

New York Times, United States
By Kate Galbraith The struggle to rebrand the concept of cap-and-trade - in which a regulatory ceiling is placed on greenhouse gas emissions, and a marketplace is set up for industry to trade emissions allowances - is gearing up, in tandem with the ...
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Empire State Bldg. Plans a Growth Spurt, Environmentally

New York Times, United States
People involved with the retrofit said the Empire State Building can offer an example of how older buildings can retrofit to the highest energy standards and effectively cut down their greenhouse gas emissions, a contributor to global warming.
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Stern's approach to climate talks cautious but optimistic

New York Times, United States
Stern -- who has warned repeatedly that America is politically unable to curb greenhouse gas output 25 to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, as Europe would like -- declined to say whether the Democrats' target is reachable. "I think that generally, ...
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Climate-Change Bill Introduced

Chemical & Engineering News
released their much-awaited draft climate-change bill last week. The 648-page draft will be the basis for hammering out conflicting congressional perspectives on greenhouse gas reductions in the months ahead. Waxman (left) and Markey are leading the ...
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Obama pledges US lead on climate change

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PRAGUE (AFP) - President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States was ready to take the lead in tackling climate change, as EU leaders pushed him to follow their ambitious targets to combat global warming. "To protect our planet, now is the time to ...
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NH Climate Change Task Force releases report

Seacoastonline.com, NH
The final report of New Hampshire Governor's Climate Change Task Force released March 25 is, by many an energy nerd standard, forward-thinking, innovative and thoughtful. It sets out a series of steps for weatherizing homes and businesses, ...
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Carbon trading mooted

China Daily, China
A top State-run think tank has proposed a global greenhouse gas trading plan to reflect the different per capita emissions of rich and poor nations, indicating deepening discussion in Beijing about climate change policy. Researchers from the State ...
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We're skating on very thin ice

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
ICE could disappear from the Arctic summer within 30 years because of global warming, a US study has found. As world governments prepare for a summit on the North and South poles that opens tomorrow, research by the University of Washington and the US ...
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Barroso says EU, US converging on climate change

Reuters UK, UK
PRAGUE, April 5 (Reuters) - Opinions in Europe and the United States on how to battle climate change are converging, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Sunday. "We welcome the steps taken by the new American administration and ...
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'Super Sherpa' climbs to clean up Everest

AFP
Apa, 49, has become increasingly concerned about the damage inflicted on the world's highest mountain by both climate change and the waste left by careless climbers. This spring season he hopes to conquer Everest for the 19th time, and he will use the ...
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Wong pleased to see US 'addressing climate change'

ABC Online, Australia
Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says she will closely watch a US proposal for the country to cut climate change emissions by more than 80 per cent. The plan has been put forward by Democratic representative Henry Waxman and it proposes an 83 ...
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Arctic jockeying heats up on centennial of Peary’s trek

Ottawa Citizen,  Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "use it or lose it" mantra about the Canadian Arctic - a pointed response to the growing global interest in the region as climate change unlocks the frozen polar sea - shows how profoundly the world has changed in the ...
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EU, US vow to coop more in fighting climate change

Xinhua, China
PRAGUE, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) and the United States pledged here on Sunday to cooperate more in fighting climate change. "The EU and the US must also work together on helping developing countries reach their own goals in terms of ...
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White noise

The Age, Australia
Escalating polar tourism is running near to disaster in Antarctica. The pursuit of marine resources is relentless. Mineral exploitation and climate change loom, and territorial claims are being ignored or squabbled over. All these issues are in turn ...
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Trees are growing faster and could buy time to halt global warming

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Plants and trees are growing faster because of rising carbon dioxide levels, potentially buying Earth more time to address global warming, according to scientists. By Urmee Khan The phenomenon has been discovered in a variety of flora, ranging from ...
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Obama to face pressure on global change

Monsters and Critics.com
Prague - US President Barak Obama is likely to face pressure from Washington's European Union (EU) allies at an US-EU summit in Prague to draw up concrete measures to combat global warming. After delivering a speech in central Prague calling for world ...
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