Apr 25, 2009

Global warming deniers took a page from the tobacco industry

The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR
The Global Climate Coalition, an advocacy group financed by the oil, coal and auto industries and other trade groups throughout the 1990s, kept fanning doubts that emissions of heat-trapping gases were leading to global warming even though the group's ...
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Ashley Judd urges Congress to fight global warming

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Actress Ashley Judd and TV personality Jeff Corwin are urging Congress to spend $7 billion a year to help safeguard America's wildlife from the impact of global warming. Judd is a longtime environmental activist.
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Warner vs. Gingrich On Climate Change

Huffington Post, NY
Today in the House there was a dramatic contrast between a Republican Party embracing the urgent need to take serious action about global climate change and one wedded to ideology. About two years ago, Newt Gingrich and I had a civil, respectful debate ...
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Don't procrastinate about climate change

Chicago Tribune, United States
Yet week after week, climate change, other slow-moving but planetary-scale issues, and the possible solutions are pushed out of the headlines to make way for other things. It's like that closet that we never get around to cleaning or the leak we never ...
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Finally, policy change on climate change

Newsday, NY
All of a sudden, there are some big cracks in the glacial political ice that has been freezing up legislative efforts to deal with climate change. There's good reason to believe that this is the year Congress might really act. What's all the rush? ...
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US delivers message of urgency on climate change

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SIRACUSA, Sicily (AP) - The United States insisted Thursday that it had a common purpose and felt a sense of urgency over climate change, taking part in environment talks with other Group of Eight nations and developing countries.
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Apr 24, 2009

How California Rolls: Auto Greenhouse Gas Emissions Capped

Backpacker Magazine
Hot on the heels of Wednesday's Earth Day hoopla, California passed a law Thursday that limits greenhouse gas emissions released by fuel-powered vehicles. The regulation, which was passed 9 to 1 by the Air Resources Board, is the first of its kind. ...
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The Cause of Global Warming -- Put Down That Pie!

Huffington Post, NY
Scientists now know the real cause of Global Warming. Well, maybe not all scientists, but certainly Dr. Phil Edwards of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - one of the more prestigious of the institutions that combines two random names.
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'Future Earth: Journey to the End of the World'

Los Angeles Times, CA
In the normal run of things, they would be attacked by a monster from the deep or aliens from space, but here they just have to deal with polar bears, the changeable ice and ship's cabin fever through the colder-than-cold, six-month polar night.
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House Democrats Negotiating Possible Compromise on Climate Bill

Washington Post, United States
The draft list of suggestions, which Boucher spokeswoman Courtney Lamie described as "a very early version" of what Boucher is seeking, includes lowering the proposed targets for greenhouse gas emissions cuts in the bill introduced by House Energy and ...
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Experts Probe Urban Growth, Climate Change Links in Africa

Voice of America
By Brent Latham A new project has united researchers exploring the connection between rapid urban growth in Africa and climate related emergencies, in an effort to safeguard vulnerable urban populations from the effects of climate change.
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US Rep Waxman: 'Legitimate Concerns' On Climate-Change Bill

Wall Street Journal
By Siobhan Hughes Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said Friday fellow lawmakers concerned their districts would be disproportionately affected by climate-change ...
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Warner: Climate change a national security issue

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John Warner of Virginia says dealing with climate change is a national security issue that must be addressed. But Warner told a House panel there will be "a rough road ahead" if greenhouse gases are to be reduced. He cautioned against moving too ...
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Methane climate shock 'less likely'

ABC Science Online, Australia
Some scientists have worried that catastrophic global warming could occur if warming triggers vast releases of methane from clathrates. "If they were unstable, clathrates have the potential to overwhelm the atmospheric carbon cycle," says Etheridge.
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Lord Stern ups the ante in the climate change bull market

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
As with any other commodity traded on the stock market, it is sensible to keep an eye on the ups and downs of shares and traders in the Climate Change sector. This commodity enjoys the unique advantage of always being a bull market, because governments ...
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Apr 23, 2009

ACC Comments on Provisions of House Climate Legislation

PR Newswire (press release), NY
We support policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. American chemistry provides climate solutions used by consumers and businesses throughout the United States to save energy and reduce emissions: our products go into energy efficiency and ...
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Global Warming a Fad? Not according to those who lied.

StandardNet, Utah
by Charles Trentelman - Apr 23rd, 2009 I've heard Global Warming called a fad by some who seem to think it's some sort of liberal conspiracy. Interestingly, the NYTimes has a story today here that the scientists who work for the advocacy group of the ...
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Electricity providers say plan would raise prices

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They also will advise the panel how the US can keep manufacturing jobs and its competitiveness when other countries will not be paying the extra costs to limit the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change. These two issues loomed over the ...
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Fires make climate change worse: report

Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a vicious cycle made worse by humans, scientists now believe fires spur climate change, which in turn makes blazes bigger, more frequent and more damaging to the environment.
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Urban EcoMap Offers Smarter Climate Change Info

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Cisco (News - Alert) and the City and County of San Francisco, have collaborated to start a pilot project called Urban EcoMap, that will educate people about climate change and to spur a shift to climate-friendly social behavior in cities.
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UK: Coal power stations to include carbon capture

Forbes, NY
By DAVID STRINGER , 04.23.09, 11:36 AM EDT New coal-fired power stations will only be approved in Britain if they include plans to develop carbon capture and storage technology, Britain's Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said on Thursday ...
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Climate change science isn't settled

The Australian, Australia
MANY people think the science of climate change is settled. It isn't. And the issue is not whether there has been an overall warming during the past century. There has, although it was not uniform and none was observed during the past decade.
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Gas still causes us embarrassment

London Free Press, Canada
The most recent statistics show a 2% decline in greenhouse gas emissions from both ends in the barnyard, although the rest of the Canadian agriculture industry is considerably less eco-friendly. Overall, emissions from farming and forestry shot up by ...
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Nicholas Stern's reaction to green budget measures

guardian.co.uk, UK
The measures outlined in the budget are a significant step towards building a clear and credible programme of practical policies that will allow the UK to meet its targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions. The budget indicates that the ...
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Pollution 'fights global warming'

BBC News, UK
By Matt McGrath Air pollution may be helping the fight against global warming by enhancing the ability of plants to absorb carbon dioxide, scientists say. Since the 1960s, increased levels of atmospheric pollution have enhanced plant productivity by as ...
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Alberta's emissions reductions equal to taking 1.3M vehicles off ...

CBC.ca, Canada
A provincial climate change program which started last year has resulted in Alberta reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 6.5 tonnes, which is the equivalent of taking 1.3 million vehicles off the road for a year, the province announced Wednesday.
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Pledge to reduce greenhouse gases

BBC News, UK
The chancellor has announced measures aimed at cutting the UK's greenhouse gas emissions - as part of ��1bn spending to tackle climate change. The Budget commits the UK to cut CO2 emissions by 34% by 2020. Industry has pushed for the measures, ...
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Arnie defends California's greenhouse-gas rules

Globe and Mail, Canada
It was this unwillingness to bring in stricter green policies that caused California to move to its own stricter greenhouse gas controls, the governor said. Of course, that has created the current legislative quagmire: one set of rising US federal ...
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Apr 22, 2009

Budget 2009: Has the government begun to recognise the scale of ...

guardian.co.uk, UK
The Committee on Climate Change says the most important prospective source of cuts in greenhouse gases lay in the 'decarbonisation' of electricity generation. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian The budget confirmed the acceptance of the Committee on ...
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G8 looks to greener White House to lead on global warming

AFP
SYRACUSE, Italy (AFP) - The environment ministers of rich and emerging nations were looking Wednesday to Washington for new leadership at talks in Sicily on combatting global warming. "We are all encouraged by the new position of the United States," ...
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Clinton: Dealing with climate change like trying to lose weight

CNN Political Ticker
In a speech on Earth Day, Secretary of State Clinton comparing fighting global climate change to trying to lose weight. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unusual comparison Wednesday during remarks that celebrated Earth Day.
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Global warming fight requires many tactics

Detroit Free Press, United States
James Clift is policy director for the Michigan Environmental Council. He is one of several guest bloggers this week who are discussing what remedies, if any, are needed to combat global warming. See the full list of blog posts here...
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Bill Clinton: Business is the key to climate change

CNET News, CA
by Martin lamonica LAGUNA NIGUEL, California--Absent having a vote in Congress, the best way for people to tackle climate change is to make clean energy cheap, said Bill Clinton at a green business conference here on Wednesday.
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USC Teach-In Focus on Climate Change

Free Times, SC
That's partially why he was on hand, along with Columbia Mayor Bob Coble and a panel of climate change experts, at the Teach-In on Climate Change on April 17 at usc's Green Quad to speak in front of a group of students, faculty and guests.
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Budget: Green tinge or blue rinse?

BBC News, UK
So now, the country has a "legally binding" target: to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 34% with respect to 1990 levels by 2020. Mr Darling's adoption of the figure proposed in December by the Committee on Climate Change, the government's advisory body, ...
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Report identifies homes, vehicles as Louisville's biggest ...

U Of L News, KY
If you think that businesses and industry are the biggest greenhouse gas producers in Louisville Metro, think again. A report released April 22 by Louisville's Partnership for a Green City, identifies homes and vehicles as the worst offenders, ...
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EPA: Greenhouse gases are pollutants, threat to public health

Earth & Sky, TX
In mid-April 2009, the US Environmental Protection Agency - EPA - declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases associated with climate change are pollutants. Dan Greenbaum: What they've done here is drawn this connection between CO2 and ...
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Syracuse working to cut greenhouse gases

News 10 Now, NY
SYRACUSE, NY -- The City of Syracuse is moving forward with plans to sign onto a state program calling for new initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Mayor Matt Driscoll says the city has already taken significant steps to reduce energy usage ...
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Climate change serious test for humankind: Obama

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NEWTON, Iowa (AFP) - President Barack Obama warned Wednesday that climate change was a serious test for humankind, and told Americans small changes in their daily lives could make a big difference to the environment. Obama, who was later due to tour a ...
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Political Wisdom: Pessimism Prevails on Climate Change

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Sara Murray It's Earth Day so the experts in Politico's Arena are debating whether significant climate change legislation could be possible by next year. The Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker isn't optimistic.
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Polar Ice Caps Growing

Heart 103 Cambridge, UK
... allows them to make better predictions about what the weather will be like in the future: "Understanding how polar sea ice responds to global change is really important if we are to make accurate predictions about the Earth's future climate change.
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Green Week: Science of Climate Change

Washington Post, United States
It's easy on a warm day in the middle of winter to blame "global warming," but often that's not the case. So what is the latest evidence that shows our climate is changing? Join Andrew Freedman, who writes about climate change for the Capital Weather ...
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Budget: 'Carbon budget' targets 34% emissions cut

Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom
Claiming Britain's economic recovery must be "sustainable and protect the environment", Mr Darling announced ��1 billion in funding to tackle climate change. In the Budget he committed millions of pounds of extra funding and financial incentives for ...
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Climate change threatens Ganges, Niger and other mighty rivers

guardian.co.uk, UK
Graphic: Journal of Climate, modified by UCAR Some of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganges, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, a study of global waterways warned yesterday.
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US in spotlight at talks on global warming fight

Reuters
By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Daniel Flynn SYRACUSE, Italy, April 22 (Reuters) - A new US commitment to tackle global warming as outlined by President Barack Obama will be the focus of attention on Wednesday at meeting of international environment ...
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Ventura teen delivers global warming message with zeal

Ventura County Star, CA
He's morphed from a quiet teen interested in rallying local students to help stop global warming, into an impassioned crusader whose presentations are in demand at scientific conferences around the country. He's gone from being a kid deemed too young ...
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Breathe your greenhouse gases while you still can

UN Dispatch
As it is, he thinks that Environmental Protection Agency is trying to control the air that you breathe (carbon dioxide, is, after all, a greenhouse gas!). I think that answers that question. With such scaremongering a transparent ruse, Goldberg next ...
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Obama Gambles on Americans' Affection for Green

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
On Tuesday, the EPA said a House proposal to cut US greenhouse gas emissions would have a relatively small impact on consumers - with the important caveat that most of the money raised under a carbon cap and trade system is returned to consumers.
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umaine Climate Change Lecture to Focus on Ice Sheets and Sea Level ...

The University of Maine, ME
Hamilton's talk is the final installment of the season in the Climate Change Institute's monthly lecture series, which is free and open to the public. The series will resume in the fall. Hamilton will discuss what would happen if the great polar ice ...
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Apr 21, 2009

Disney's 'Earth' treads familiar but important ground

USA Today
Still, a lively, informative script would only enhance our enjoyment of watching adorable polar bear cubs scrambling over Arctic ice or fatigued baby elephants lagging behind their mothers on long treks across the Kalahari desert.
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US to pass bill on global warming

Xinhua, China
BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhuanet) -- The US Congress is considering passing a global warming bill this coming week in an effort to impose strict rules to cut down on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from power plants, cars, and other sources.
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Earth Day Celebrated, As Global Warming Debate Heats Up

HULIQ, NC
For those who trumpet that our deficit spending is leaving debt for our children to repay, how about, on this Earth Day, thinking about what consequences will emerge for our children if we don't address global warming and other environmental issues ...
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Global warming prevention will save money, scientists say

USA Today
Energy efficient, cleaner cars, improved electric transmission and a greenhouse gas "cap" will save consumers money while staving off global warming, suggests a Union of Concerned Scientists analysis. Presented in Congressional testimony today, ...
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McCain Slams Obama Cap-and-Trade Climate Change Proposal

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John McCain ripped the White House cap and trade energy proposal on Tuesday as House Republicans said it is too early to debate a climate change bill because a major element of the legislation is missing. The bill aimed to stop global warming by giving ...
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Atmospheric CO2 and Methane Still Building

New York Times, United States
The agency's preliminary summary of greenhouse gas trends consolidates data from 60 monitoring stations around the world. A variety of factors shapes how much of these two gases remains in the atmosphere after they are emitted, which is one reason the ...
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Boehner: Calling Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Is รข€˜Almost Comical'

New York Times, United States
So what is the Republican answer to climate change? Is it a problem? Do you have a plan to address it? BOEHNER: George, we believe that our - all of the above energy strategy from last year continues to be the right approach on energy.
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Africa says poor need $267 bln/yr in climate fight

Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, April 20 (Reuters) - Developing nations will need at least $267 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change and adapt to droughts, heat waves and rising seas, according to African nations.
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Stephen Hawking's best quotes about the earth, climate change

Examiner.com
I wish him a full and speedy recovery, and I'd like to honor him by sharing his three best quotes about the earth, including his predictions about global climate change: "As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating ...
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Albertans are in need of a climate-change reality check

Globe and Mail, Canada
A strange and alarming disconnect has opened between what the Alberta government sees and believes about climate-change policy, and what is actually emerging in the United States. Alberta, which accounts for about 32 per cent of Canada's emissions and ...
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UK set to miss climate change targets

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The UK is set to miss climate change targets despite a reduction in greenhouse emissions caused by the recession, analysts have warned. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Cambridge Econometrics forecasts predicted carbon dioxide emissions will ...
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PETER FERRARA: We're Doomed If the EPA Continues to Embrace Bad ...

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By Peter Ferrara Last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency began implementing Obama administration policy with a "finding" that man-made global warming is a threat to human health. This finding provides the legal foundation for massive ...
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Key Obama Climate Change Exchange Being Swayed

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Barack Obama, which is likely to play a major role in his $650 million cap-and-trade initiative, lists five present or former top-ranking UN officials on its advisory board who've had enormous influence over climate change matters - including one who ...
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Apr 20, 2009

The problem with carbon tariffs: They aren't fair

Christian Science Monitor, MA
If each state is able to choose its own level of greenhouse gases it should be permitted to emit, then countries will select standards that benefit themselves and the planet will still have an unsustainable level of greenhouse-gas production.
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Canada's greenhouse emissions soaring: UN report

Canada.com, Canada
This 2009 Environment Canada inventory covers 1990 to 2007, the most recent year that details on human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are available. It says total greenhouse gas emissions in Canada in 2007 were 747 megatonnes, an increase of four per ...
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Climate change will overload humanitarian system, warns Oxfam

guardian.co.uk, UK
Analysis by Oxfam International of the 6500 climate-related disasters recorded since 1980 show that the numbers of people affected by extreme weather events, many of which are linked to climate change, has doubled in just 30 years and is expected to ...
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Study: Shortages likely on Colorado River by 2050

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Less runoff - the snow and rain that fortify the 1400-mile river - caused by human-induced climate change could mean that by 2050 the Colorado won't be able to provide all of its allocated water 60 percent to 90 percent of the time, according to two ...
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Virgin to report greenhouse gases

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Virgin America on Monday became the first US airline to sign up to report its greenhouse gas emissions to the nonprofit Climate Registry. "We hope to do our part to promote awareness and transparency about the impact our industry ...
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Global warming harmful to your health, at last

Danbury News Times, CT
Two years ago, in April 2007, the US Supreme Court stuck its august body into the debate over global warming. The court ruled by a 5-4 margin that carbon dioxide -- the pollutant that comes out of automobile tailpipes and big coal plant smokestacks ...
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Thinner is better to curb global warming

CNN International
By Elizabeth Landau (CNN) -- Here's yet another reason to stay in shape: Thinner people contribute less to global warming, according to a new study. More than 1 billion adults worldwide are overweight, and about 300 million are obese.
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Scientists weigh geoengineering in global warming battle

USA Today
Consider atmospheric geoengineering - pumping reflective particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight - seen as a way to cut the effects of global warming. In 1991, the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines cooled the atmosphere's average ...
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Binding green targets in Budget

BBC News, UK
Ministers now proudly claim the carbon budgets as an example of the UK's international leadership on climate. Originally the idea was forced upon them by opposition parties and their own backbenchers frustrated that the rhetoric on climate change was ...
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Salazar reviews 'midnight' endangered species rule

The Associated Press
"From the mightiest beasts, such as the polar bear and Louisiana black bear, to the smallest creatures ... the nation's imperiled species deserve every tool in the toolbox for fighting the climate crisis," she said...
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Don't sink energy independence by crimping biofuels

The Detroit News, MI
As part of California's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels, CARB is pushing for the enactment of a low-carbon fuel standard, or LCFS, that aims to regulate the emissions level of petroleum refiners, biofuels producers ...
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Apr 19, 2009

Aborigine, Inuit tradition can fight climate change

Reuters UK, UK
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - Alaskan Inuits, Australian aborigines and Pygmies from Cameroon have a message for a warming world: native traditions can be a potent weapon against climate change.
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Rick Holmes: Action on global warming

Wicked Local Lancaster, MA
For the last eight years, that division -- and Big Oil's clout in Washington -- has provided an excuse for the American government not to do anything about climate change. But the people now running the government aren't accepting that excuse any more.
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Coal Mining Australia and Climate Change Review

Energy Bangla, Bangladesh
The Garnaut Climate Change Review was a study by Professor Ross Garnaut, commissioned by then Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd ( now Prime Minister of Australian Federal Government ) and by the Australian State and Territory Governments on 30 April 2007.
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Go slow on enacting global warming regs

Modesto Bee, CA
Now, business and governments face myriad regulations to implement the state's sweeping Global Warming Solutions Act, known as Assembly Bill 32. The legislation, passed in 2006, makes California a worldwide leader in addressing the impact of climate ...
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National parks cutting their carbon footprint

Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
Working with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Park Service has launched the Climate Friendly Parks program to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. "Our national parks can be used to demonstrate the impacts of climate change," said Shawn Norton, ...
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SEA CHANGE UNDER WAY

Buffalo News,  United States
Finally we have a president who understands global warming and climate change and is committed to addressing this very serious problem. The importance of this sea change cannot be underestimated. It's cause for real hope and celebration this Earth Day.
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US: Climate change washes islands off map

PRESS TV, Iran
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has warned that climate change and rising level of oceans can wash some countries off the map. The American energy secretary is traveling with President Barack Obama to the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago for the ...
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