Obama's Realism May Not Play Well in Cairo's Streets

New York Times, United States
In a recent speech, David Miliband, Britain's scholarly foreign minister, observed that, in the face of "threats from climate change, terrorism, pandemics and financial crisis," global security can be guaranteed only by "the broadest possible coalition ...
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Of Lemmings and Men

Polish News, IL
Consider this: In slightly more than 10 thousand years, the earth was ending an ice age that extended polar caps more than a mile deep down to southern Illinois. And the earth there is still rising in southern Illinois after that great weight burden in ...
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How Obama Made His Energy Platform 'Pop'

Washington Post, United States
By Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin After a long day of campaigning on July 8, candidate Barack Obama arrived at his Chicago headquarters for a three-hour brainstorming session about a suddenly hot issue: energy and climate change.
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Republican Address: Climate Change Bill 'Unwise'

Voice of America
By VOA News A US Republican governor has criticized a climate bill backed by Democrats and President Barack Obama, calling it wasteful and inefficient. In the Republicans' weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Governor Mitch Daniels of the ...
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The Climate Gap: Is Federal Climate Policy Doing Enough to Narrow ...

Huffington Post, NY
The biggest lost opportunity to address climate change and close the Climate Gap is the absence of any incentives or requirements to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air pollution by focusing greenhouse gas reductions in the neighborhoods ...
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GOP belittles Democrats' climate change proposal

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The climate change proposal developed by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama does little to reduce global warming and saddles Americans with high energy costs, Republicans said Saturday. Indiana Gov.
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Global warming causes 300000 deaths a year: study

Press Trust of India, India
The first comprehensive study of the human impact of the global warming projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, floods, storms and forest fires will be responsible for as many as 500000 deaths a year by 2030, making it the greatest humanitarian ...
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GE Says Ecomagination Sales Goal Challenging But Doable

Wall Street Journal
Among them, GE said it has decreased its own greenhouse gas intensity by 41%, surpassing a 2005 goal to reduce the figure 30% by 2008. Greenhouse gas intensity is the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to company revenue. GE also said it invested $1.4 ...
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Limiting Black Soot and Ozone – Buying Time against Climate Change

EcoWorldly, San Francisco
Shindell, Faluvegi, and many other climate scientists believe that limiting black carbon sources may "buy the world some time" in the race to control climate change as richer nations develop their climate change policies and begin taking the slow steps ...
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Russia likely `winner' in Arctic resource dispute: Study.

Canada.com, Canada
But the June 2008 study offered only a general overview of the location of these potential polar riches, which underlie the urgent efforts among the five Arctic Ocean coastal states - Canada, Russia, the US, Denmark and Norway - to secure expanded ...
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Lawmaker Outlines 4 Key Changes In Climate Change Bill

Bristol Herald Courier, TN
Federal climate change legislation recently approved in committee has a softer impact on the coal industry and electric rate-payers, US Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said Friday. "My goal is to make sure the CO2 control law does not affect us at all and ...
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Export Duties: Chinese Factories, Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, and ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Keith Johnson There's been plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the role Chinese factories play in the global greenhouse-gas emissions problem. The Chinese say much of the stuff they make is for the West, so rich countries should shoulder ...
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Burger King Corp says Global Warming is Only Baloney in Memphis

Memphis Flyer, TN
Bad news for Memphis fast food junkies: Locally appearing Burger King signs reading "Global Warming is Baloney" aren't a tone-deaf marketing campaign for some delicious new Whopper-loni sandwich. Darn it. On the other hand ecologically-minded consumers ...
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China must play climate role

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
An effective agreement to slow climate change must reconcile their negotiating positions, analysts have said. ``I don't think that there's any question that China and the other major economies have to be in the game,'' Stern said today on a conference ...
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The game of chicken with China over global warming ends

Worldfocus, NY
We argued that the urgency of global warming demanded that step, but that elevating an issue on which China and the US had much in common could have other positive spill-over effects. At the time, this was not a run-of-the-mill recommendation.
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Do white roofs combat global warming?

KBCI CBS 2, ID
Now none other than the US energy secretary says if all rooftops and roads in the world were made white, it would combat global warming. "It would be the equivalent as if you took off all the automobiles of the road for eleven years," said Secretary ...
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Bold targets set for global warming experts pose threat to action

Times Online, UK
Achieving a workable international deal to tackle climate change successfully is being threatened by overambitious targets set for the world conference on global warming this year, experts said yesterday. Anxieties over whether a viable and effective ...
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Fatalistic Friday: Climate change killing 300K/souls/yr, menacing ...

Change.org, CA
If the Melting Antarctic Ice Sheet Doesn't Get Us: I really can't do better than this precis by Bruce: "Antarctica melts, water floods into oceans, the planet's gravity changes because the polar ice is gone and the North Atlantic rises and beats the ...
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First comprehensive atlas maps riches of Arctic

Vancouver Sun,  Canada
The atlas contains $1-billion worth of data from polar countries, and carries enormous implications for contentious Arctic sovereignty claims - based partly on formations under the ocean - and for mining and earthquake forecasting.
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Can poor people be protected by global warming laws?

Los Angeles Times, CA
Under loose guidelines adopted by the California Air Resources Board under the state's landmark global warming law, up to 49% of greenhouse gas pollution could be reduced through offsets such as planting trees or capturing landfill gases.
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Global warming accounts for 300000 deaths

United Press International
Annan said he was alarmed by the weak leadership and widespread ignorance about global warming. "If leaders cannot assume responsibility they will fail humanity," Annan said. "Agreement is in the interests of every human being."
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Global warming damage could be worse in Northeast

Washington Energy Services, WA
The National Center for Atmospheric research is warning that global warming could seriously damage the coastline of the northeastern United States and Canada in the coming years. The center released a study this week which found that if Greenland's ice ...
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Island sheep focus of climate-change study

United Press International
HERMOSILLO, Mexico, May 29 (UPI) -- Scientists say they're studying bighorn sheep on an island off the coast of Mexico to determine the effects of climate change on endangered species. The sheep, brought to Tiburon Island in 1975, are not at risk from ...
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Climate change toll is crucial evidence

guardian.co.uk, UK
According to a report released today, a third of a million people die annually because of climate change - mostly because of malaria and malnutrition, although weather-related disasters are also taking a rising toll. The number of deaths is equivalent ...
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Climate Envoy Stern Says China Must Be 'in the Game'

Bloomberg
An effective agreement to slow climate change must reconcile their negotiating positions, analysts have said. "I don't think that there's any question that China and the other major economies have to be in the game," Stern said today on a conference ...
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Greenpeace Finds IT Firms Lacking on Climate Leadership

Reuters
... address the world's pressing environmental issues: the Smart 2020 report published last year found that information technology has the potential to bring about worldwide reductions in greenhouse gas emissions of 15 percent or more by the year 2020.
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Canada Delays Mandated Greenhouse Gas Emission Cuts To Match US ...

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London, England (AHN) - Canada will not push through with mandated greenhouse gas emission cuts originally scheduled to be implemented by the end of 2009. Instead, the required reductions will be imposed on a staggered basis within four years beginning ...
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EU '07 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down For 3rd Consecutive Year-EEA

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LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union declined in 2007 for a third consecutive year, the European Environment Agency said Friday. According to the EU Greenhouse Gas Inventory report, the EU-27's total domestic emissions ...
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Polar blast to hit long weekend – snow possible in Coromandel

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
Meanwhile June will be colder than average but despite the cold start to winter, temperatures for the season as a whole - June, July, and August - are likely to be about average, says Niwa's National Climate Centre (NIWA).
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Report: Climate Change Killing 300000 People Per Year

Daily Kos, CA
by dsnodgrass Terms like crises, devastation, etc., have become frequent fliers in the lexicon of climate change discussion to such a degree that the short attention span theater within the cultural landscape of our western ways becomes overpowered by ...
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UC Berkeley researcher: Climate change hitting poor in the US hardest

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
By Douglas Fischer, Daily Climate Editor Climate change is disproportionately affecting the poor and minorities in the United States - a "climate gap" that will grow in coming decades unless policymakers intervene, according to a University of ...
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Climate change huge challenge for Africa-minister

Reuters
By Wangui Kanina NAIROBI, May 29 (Reuters) - The challenges facing Africa to fight climate change are enormous and costs are huge though hard to quantify, South Africa's environment minister said on Friday. Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said her peers from ...
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Warming and Death

New York Times, United States
By Andrew C. Revkin There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300000 deaths are already being caused each year by global warming, with nearly twice that number possible by ...
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'Global warming', painting your roof white, and the Chattanooga ...

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Steven Chu, entertainingly described as an "Energy Secretary", says we can Save The Planet from "global warming" by painting our rooftops and roads white. He says making roofs and roads paler would have the same effect as taking every automobile in the ...
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Colorado groups rally for climate change proposal

Forbes, NY
By JUDITH KOHLER , 05.29.09, 09:13 AM EDT People from environmental, agriculture, church and hunting and fishing groups in Colorado say a federal bill dealing with climate change would help create clean-energy jobs and reduce the effects of global ...
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EU: 27-Nation Bloc Will Meet Climate Change Target

U.S. News & World Report, DC
He said recent and steady reductions in emissions overall led him to conclude that the EU would meet its promises under the climate change accord. But seven nations - Spain, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Italy - actually increased ...
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Value Chain Approaches to a Low-Carbon Economy: Business and ...

Reuters
By climatebiz Staff - climatebiz Staff This paper is prepared in support of a workshop at the World Business Summit on Climate Change (Summit) on leveraging value chains to reduce climate impacts and build a low-carbon economy.
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Pelosi Recruiting China in Climate Fight

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Instead, she's trying to make climate change a human rights issue! Oh, really? SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF.: It's a place where human rights looking out for the needs of the poor in terms of climate change and healthy environment are a ...
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Climate change causes 315000 deaths a year-report

Reuters
By Megan Rowling LONDON, May 29 (Reuters) - Climate change kills about 315000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.
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African officials ask for climate change funding

eTaiwan News, Taiwan
AP Africa's environment ministers are appealing for funds to help manage the effects of climate change. The ministers are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday to get ready for a UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
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Forum Says Climate Shift Brings Deaths

New York Times, United States
By ANDREW C. REVKIN Global warming is causing more than 300000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary ...
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Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic'

CNN International
By Hilary Whiteman LONDON, England (CNN) -- The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a "silent crisis" that is killing 300000 people each year. Victims of flooding in India last year are ...
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Climate Change, Part V: (Re)insurers Remain Vigilant

GC Capital Ideas, NY
Whether or not you have taken a stance on climate change, the fact remains that this issue will persist in public forum debate and continue to present various risks for the (re)insurance industry. But in addition to factoring potential storm increases ...
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Solution to climate change, or a whitewash?

TVNZ, New Zealand
Forget the government insulation scheme, Barack Obama's top man on global warming has suggested painting your roof white is the answer to climate change. Dr Steven Chu, the United States Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, ...
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The climate of change

PSU Daily Vanguard, OR
For those of you who believe that global warming, global climate change or any variation thereof is a serious problem, be prepared to witness a decision that will be the biggest one yet. According to The Economist, "in Copenhagen in December, ...
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Senator Kerry applauds China for its moves on global climate changes

Boston Globe, United States
As the new chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry has made global warming a priority, and his office said that China's leaders have indicated they will begin immediate bilateral negotiations on clean energy technologies and possibly more ...
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Global warming myth has new counterpoints

Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME
The theory that man is causing global warming is now called Anthropogenic Global Warming, or AGW, and the media have brainwashed us that most world scientists support this view. This is not true. A rising tide of global scientists have shown a ...
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Climate change causes 300000-plus deaths a year, report says

Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX
It found that human-influenced climate change - by causing flooding and drought - was elevating the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition, diarrheal disease, malaria and heat-related ailments. But even before its release, ...
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NOAA's New Cooperative Institute Advances National Climate Service

Environment News Service
... scientists will extract climate data from two next generation satellite systems - the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, or GOES-R, and the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS.
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Biggest polluters closer to climate deal: Canada

Reuters
By Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - The world's biggest greenhouse gas producers have edged closer to agreement on a deal to fight global warming at crucial climate change talks in December, Canada's Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Thursday ...
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Governor Says Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Transit Sponsor ...

Seattle Weekly, WA
By Damon Agnos in County of King, Environment, Oly 2009, Transportation Since cap-and-trade dide in the legislature, Christine Gregoire took matters into her own hands and signed an executive order today aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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GE reduces its greenhouse gas emissions

ArabianOilandGas.com, United Arab Emirates
by Kevin Baxter May 29, 2009 Technology services company GE has announced that it has reduced its own greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity and is making progress against its other goals for revenue growth, water and technology innovation.
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Tories punt climate change enforcement up to six years down the road

The Canadian Press, OTTAWA
It's a far cry from the Conservative government's former "Made in Canada" climate change plan that was supposed to come into force just over six months from now. And it further calls into question Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stated target for ...
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Climate change: what does St James memo mean?

Times Online, UK
When the world's political leaders gather in Copenhagen in December to discuss climate change, they will be carrying the concerns of the public they represent. For many, however, the threat of climate change seems distant and less pressing than other ...
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Determining The Human Health Risks From Climate Change

RedOrbit, TX
Climate change could hold dangerous implications for human health, according to a report from researchers at University College London. In a May 16 commentary, the Lancet medical journal called climate change " the biggest global health threat of the ...
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Hope, but No Advances, in China-US Climate Talks

New York Times, United States
"It's business as usual for China," said Mr. Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican on the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. "The message that I received was that China was going to do it their way regardless of what the ...
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Socialist Sarkosy Appointee Says Global Warming Al Gore Scare "All ...

NewsBlaze, CA
Morano, who has spent years researching climate change, environmental, and energy issues, traveled to Greenland in 2007 to investigate global warming claims. As Senate staff, Morano also attended the United Nation's climate eco-conferences held in ...
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Global warming must stay below 2C or world faces ruin, scientists ...

Times Online, UK
World carbon emissions must start to decline in only six years if humanity is to stand a chance of preventing dangerous global warming, a group of 20 Nobel prize-winning scientists, economists and writers declared today. The United Nations climate ...
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Global Warming Still Hot Button

National Ledger, AZ
By E. Ralph Hostetter Nationwide limits on global warming pollutants received a boost on Thursday, May 21, with the passage by the House Energy and Commerce Committee of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), Representative Henry Waxman's ...
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Forest carbon offers cheaper way to curb warming

Reuters
To keep atmospheric carbon concentrations at 450 parts per million -- the level advised by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to avoid the worst impacts of global warming -- the model that factored in forest carbon had a carbon price of ...
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Greenpeace: IT companies weak on climate change

CNET News, CA
by Martin LaMonica Having issued a middling report card to consumer electronics companies, environmental watchdog Greenpeace is now targeting big IT companies which it says are not pulling their weight when it comes to tackling climate change.
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Maryland Saves Turtles And Gas By Enlisting Goats To Trim Grasses

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Hampstead, MD (AHN) - Officials in Maryland are saving turtles and money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by using goats instead of gas-powered lawnmowers to keep grass trimmed. The pilot program has 40 bearded goats munching away in an enclosed ...
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China Vows 'Constructive' Role in Climate Protection

Bloomberg
"If we start with something realistic, we can achieve it and I think China will accept a more realistic goal by the US" China was the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases from burning oil, coal and natural gas in 2006, followed by the US, ...
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Senate To Follow House Lead on Climate Change Legislation

CQPolitics.com, DC
As a historic bill aimed at curbing climate change gains momentum in the House, a group of about 25 Democratic senators has started to lay the groundwork for the daunting job of moving the legislation through their chamber. The crux of their strategy? ...
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US delegation mixed on China climate change pact

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BEIJING (AP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she remains hopeful of reaching an agreement with China on a common approach to climate change ahead of a conference in December in Copenhagen, despite considerable pessimism among other ...
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Global Business Leaders Issue Call for Effective Climate Change Treaty

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by Robert Kropp At the World Business Summit on Climate Change, statement by business leaders outlines issues that an effective climate change treaty must address. 700 global business executives attending the World Business Summit on Climate Change ...
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RPT-FEATURE-Climate health costs: bug-borne ills, killer heat

Reuters
These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming. The Lancet medical journal declared in a May ...
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Lighten up (your roof) to fight global warming

Baltimore Sun, United States
It seems US Energy Secretary Steven Chu is urging everyone to put a white roof on their houses to help fight global warming. This from Al Tompkins at Poynter Online, who read it in the London Telegraph. Hadn't thought about it before, ...
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Watson's Greenhouse Gas bill looks like it's headed to Gov.

Austin American-Statesman, TX
... regrets bill" because it would come up with ways to save money whether or not Texans believe man-made emissions contribute to global warming. On Wednesday, Watson said the proposal would be the first statewide law to deal with greenhouse gas emissions...
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Greenpeace to IT Industry: You're Slackers On Fighting Climate Change

Reuters
Now, the group is tackling the IT industry: Greenpeace says the IT industry has shown "inadequate leadership in tackling climate change," and it has launched the "Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge," which ranks IT firms like Sun, IBM, Cisco and Microsoft ...
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Burning crops darken Arctic sky, speeding polar melt: Study

Canada.com, Canada
"These fires weren't part of our standard predictions, they weren't in our models," said Daniel Jacob, a Harvard University climate researcher who participated in a multi-agency US government experiment last spring off the northern coast of Alaska...
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Modellers predict doubly bad global warming

environmentalresearchweb, UK
"4�� is a very, very dangerous amount of warming - that's 8�� Celsius of polar warming," said Ronald Prinn, one of the MIT modellers speaking earlier this year at the European Geosciences Union Conference in Copenhagen.
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White paint: a surprising cure for global warming

Mother Nature Network, GA
We can all agree that greenwashing is not good for the environment, but as it turns out whitewashing may be the quickest and cheapest way to slow global warming. On Tuesday Dept. of Energy head Frank Chu stated during the climate change summit in ...
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Which Tech Company Will Lead on Climate Change?

Huffington Post, NY
Many IT companies, including HP, Nokia, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco and Ericsson, Google, Dell, IBM and Lenovo have already said that they are able to provide solutions that will reduce projected global greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2020 through ...
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Hoosier GOP Sound Alarm Over Cap & Trade

Howey Politics Indiana, IN
Christopher C. Horner, author of the book "Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed" noted that it was Enron that invented the concept of cap and trade and then profited off it until it ...
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Pelosi appeals for China's help on climate change

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BEIJING (AP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Beijing on Thursday to cooperate on climate change, calling a safe environment a basic human right. Speaking at Beijing's elite Tsinghua University, Pelosi continued the theme of her five-day China ...
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Global energy demand seen up 44 pct by 2030-EIA

guardian.co.uk, UK
The EIA said its long-term forecast does not reflect efforts the United States may take to cut greenhouse gas emissions or an expected international agreement to curb greenhouse gases. Gruenspecht said the agency will analyze the possible impact of ...
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Houston Signs $9.6M Deal to Hike Energy Efficiency in City Buildings

Environment News Service
HOUSTON, Texas, May 27, 2009 (ENS) - Houston is taking the lead among the world's largest cities in reducing the energy consumption of city buildings and lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Today Houston became the first C40 city in the United States to ...
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Is global warming a moral panic, the challenge of our generation ...

Examiner.com
Global warming isn't the first crisis we've seen in this generation. There have been a variety of novel threats to our way of life, many originating in the past 20 years. Although plague has always been with us, AIDS, swine flu, SARS and avian flu are ...
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For Action on Climate Change, the Time is Now: Waxman-Markey Bill ...

Red, Green, and Blue, CA
We're spending unknown (at least to me) billions treating disease from pollution that is avoidable (like asthma due to air quality issues) and will spend many billions more fighting diseases brought on by climate change. Frankly, we cannot afford to ...
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World Business Leaders Issue "Call" for New Climate Treaty

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By ClimateBiz Staff - ClimateBiz Staff Business leaders from around the world issued a manifesto Tuesday advocating an international climate change treaty that will offer certainty, jump start investment and help rev up the ailing global economy.
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In China, Pelosi Calls for Cooperation on Climate

New York Times, United States
A leading Beijing expert on climate-change economics, Zhang Shiqiu, said Wednesday that she was optimistic that the two nations would reach some accord on global warming before the Copenhagen meeting. But she also cautioned that American negotiators ...
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Shareholder Group Removes Chevron Resolution To Cut Emissions

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(CVX) to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions after the company said its emission-reduction plans include greater investment in low-carbon products. The group, the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, has filed a number of shareholder ...
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Scottish government is failing to hit greenhouse gas emission targets

Times Online, UK
The Scottish government is failing to hit its own targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, figures show. Energy use in official buildings and emissions from business travel have both gone up - though the government has hit targets for reducing ...
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Exxon Mobil Says Transition From Oil Is Century Away

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A plan introduced by Democrats this month would allocate a limited number of emission credits to refiners and electricity producers, with the aim of curbing greenhouse gases. "The oil-gas-refining side of the business received a very, very small amount ...
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GE Ecomagination revenue up, greenhouse gas emissions down

Mother Nature Network, GA
Ecomagination technology also helped GE lower its own greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage. In its most recent CSR report, the company reveals that it managed to reduce its operational greenhouse gas intensity by 41 percent since 2004, ...
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Tundra to become greenhouse gas source despite Arctic plant growth ...

The Canadian Press
Scientists say vast swaths of Arctic tundra could become massive sources of carbon dioxide despite increased plant growth spurred by warmer temperatures in the North. "It's going to happen as a slow-motion time bomb," said Ted Schuur, an ecologist at ...
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Permafrost Meltdown May Bog Down Global Warming--For Awhile

Scientific American
"From a global warming perspective," he says, "that could still turn around and be positive feedback." Schuur agrees with this assessment. "We can't say its going to be 15 years in every place," he says, "but we can say [that] in the initial decade of ...
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World CO2 up 39 pct by 2030 without new policy-EIA

guardian.co.uk, UK
By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) - Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top US energy forecast agency ...
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Steven Chu: White Roofs to Fight Global Warming

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Energy secretary Steven Chu, who while in London pitched an idea from his former colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Painting roofs white to reflect sunlight can make a huge difference to global warming. From the Times of London: ...
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How the Effects of Global Warming in the Arctic Are Affecting the ...

Washington Post, United States
An iceberg melting near Greenland's Ammassalik Island is just one sign of global warming. A record amount of ice has melted in the Arctic. (By John Mcconnico -- Associated Press) Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other ...
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NSF Announces First Major Award Under American Recovery and ...

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The addition of ARRV represents a major contribution to the legacy of the International Polar Year, advancement of US Arctic policy, and a stronger understanding of our global climate and ecosystems. Delivery of the vessel is anticipated for 2013 with ...
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Investing in Climate Change

Daily Reckoning - American Edition, MD
By Ian Mathias 05/26/09 Baltimore, Maryland A climate change/carbon cap bill has cleared the House Energy Committee. What's called the Waxman-Markey bill is quickly slithering its way through the legislative process��� much to the dismay of our resident ...
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Forecast for climate change bill: cloudy

Christian Science Monitor, MA
By the Monitor's Editorial Board A climate change bill that escaped from a House committee last Thursday - and which Congress will confront again next month - has already seen some mighty wriggling from lawmakers forced to take a stand.
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US climate change bill, radically bad law: John Kemp

guardian.co.uk, UK
But other tranches are reserved for promoting energy efficiency and renewable technologies, carbon sequestration and storage, clean vehicles, and something called "Clean Energy Innovation Centers", as well as a "Climate Change Health Protection and ...
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China ready to cooperate with US on climate change: report

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BEIJING (AFP) - China is ready to strengthen its cooperation with the United States to combat climate change, Premier Wen Jiabao told US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, state media reported. "China will cement policy dialogue with the United ...
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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: May 27, 2009

SustainableBusiness.com, NY
... week's newsletter announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation plan to initiate a joint rulemaking for new vehicle standards, which will address both fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Exxon shareholder activists seek action on emissions

Dallas Morning News, TX
But on Tuesday, the Sisters of St. Dominic withdrew their proposal for Chevron to take action on greenhouse gas emissions. They didn't withdraw a similar proposal for Exxon shareholders. "Basically these companies are night and day in terms of the ...
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Obama Nominates Sonia Sotomayor For Supreme Court

SustainableBusiness.com, NY
"The Supreme Court plays an extremely vital role in directing the law surrounding issues like clean air, clean water, public lands and global warming. The decision two years ago in Massachusetts vs. EPA set the stage for the action finally being taken ...
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China PM Says Ready To Cooperate With US On Climate Change

NASDAQ, New York
BEIJING (AFP)--China is ready to strengthen its cooperation with the United States to combat climate change, Premier Wen Jiabao told US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, state media reported. "China will cement policy dialogue with the United ...
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Progress Made In Talks On Climate Change Funding

RedOrbit, TX
The world's largest carbon polluters made progress in talks on Tuesday on how to help poor nations that may be dramatically affected by climate change. The Major Economies Forum (MEF) made headway on a new global treaty that should be crafted in ...
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Climate change a 'game changer' in US-China relations: Pelosi

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BEIJING (AFP) - US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that the fight against climate change was a "game changer" in China-US relations, as she visited Beijing on a trip focused on energy. Pelosi, a tough critic of China's human ...
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The Biggest Tax Increase In World History

Human Events, DC
The ostensible purpose of Waxman-Markey is to contain global warming by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. The cap-and-trade scheme at the heart of the bill would do this by limiting severely the amount of energy derived from ...
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China flexible on rich nation greenhouse gas cuts

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BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) - Climate change negotiations late this year need not specify greenhouse gas cuts for the United States and other rich countries, a top Chinese climate policy official said on Tuesday. In its formal demands for the Copenhagen ...
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GE says it has reduced greenhouse emissions

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. says it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions and is making a growing amount of money from its environmentally conscious business plan launched in 2005. In the annual report of GE's ...
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Cool IT leaders needed to tackle global warming

Media Newswire (press release), NY
The IT industry calculates that it could enable more than 15% cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020(3). However, the IT industry needs to look beyond just cutting its own internal emissions and deliver climate solutions for the rest of the ...
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The Wildlife Forecast: Watch the Coral Reefs for Effects of ...

Wakulla.com, FL
"The coral reefs are the sentinel for climate change," said Patty Glick from the National Wildlife Federation and author of "Preparing for a Sea Change in Florida." "And in the Caribbean and Florida we're already seeing the signs.
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GOP claims global warming bill will cost jobs, hike prices

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Democratic bill aimed at reining in global warming and promoting alternative energy development will increase energy prices and cost jobs, according to Republican Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, in Pittsburgh ...
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Greenhouse Gas Bill Moves Forward, Slowly

Washington Post, United States
By David Fahrenthold The debate over a bill to cap US greenhouse-gas emissions is finally moving in a House committee. Yesterday, the Energy and Commerce began what will likely be a weeklong markup of the "Waxman-Markey" bill. But they didn't actually ...
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Exxon shareholder activists seeking action on greenhouse gas emissions

Dallas Morning News, TX
But on Tuesday, the Sisters of St. Dominic withdrew their proposal for Chevron to take action on greenhouse gas emissions. They didn't withdraw a similar proposal for Exxon shareholders. "Basically these companies are night and day in terms of the ...
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Will Sotomayor Be Bad On Global Warming Legislation?

The Chilling Effect, DC
One Response to "Will Sotomayor Be Bad On Global Warming Legislation?" This nominee appears willing to use whatever method is available to advance leftist causes. She has noted while on camera with a wink and a nod that courts don't legislate.
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Climate-Change Bill Hits Some of the Right Notes but Botches the ...

Washington Post, United States
But now that we know what a climate-change bill looks like when it is jury-rigged to accommodate all the special interests, maybe Americans will be willing to reconsider one of the cleaner, simpler approaches -- a carbon tax with all the revenue ...
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Pelosi Seeks Common Ground With China on Environment

Wall Street Journal
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, also in China, stressed the importance of US-China agreement on climate change as well. "Copenhagen will be defined by what the US and China agree on in the next few weeks," Mr. Kerry said.
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Help for poor countries at Paris climate talks

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PARIS (AP) - The world's biggest polluters made progress on a global deal to finance efforts to fight global warming and help poor countries cope with it, the French hosts of climate talks said Tuesday. However, the environment ministers and top ...
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The global warming debates: Stephen Schneider

Examiner.com
This is part one of an interview with Professor Stephen Schneider regarding global warming and climate change issues. Update: Roger Pielke Sr., principal contributor to Climate Science, has commented both here and on his website regarding my ...
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Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette

Popular Science, NY
Donna Coveney/MIT It's time to call your bookie, because the line on global warming is in. A new paper from MIT breaks down the odds of different outcomes from global warming, based on whether governments take action now or later.
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