Climate Change Legislative Update

Helicopter Association International, VA
House Speaker Pelosi stressed Thursday, June 4 that a June 19 deadline for committees to finish work on a climate and energy bill is flexible, while strong signs still point to Ways and Means Democrats forgoing putting their stamp on the bill.
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Our Duty to Lead on Climate Change

Washington Post, United States
While the Waxman-Markey bill's goals for curbing greenhouse gases are not as ambitious as many environmentalists would like, domestic action on climate change by the United States would have tremendous political benefits, such as garnering broader ...
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UK will beat Kyoto greenhouse gas reduction goals

TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia
By Susan Wilson The UK will almost double its Kyoto Protocol goal of 12.5 percent reduction of greenhouse gases below 1990 levels by 2010. Right now, it looks as if the UK will actually have a greenhouse gas reduction of 23 percent below 1990 levels.
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Global warming and a tale of two planets

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Kofi Annan claims that global warming is already "killing 300000 people a year". The situation looks a little different in the real world, says Christopher Booker. By Christopher Booker It might well be called "the tale of two planets".
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Conservative senator says Obama Cairo speech 'un-American'

Prison Planet.com
The senator who once famously declared that global warming was the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" has now moved on to President Barack Obama. In comments made to an Oklahoma news outlet, Sen. James Inhofe (R-KN) declared ...
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Where are Progressives on Climate Change?

Daily Kos, CA
(In face of catastrophic climate change, it is hard to see how "progressive" issues will receive resources or even be seriously on the table.) Has the tide turned? Are Progressives about to come to the table ... On May 29, a number of groups sent a ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Columbia Basin Herald, WA
We all know that there are activists who take things too far, and that they represent both sides of the issue of climate change. Supporters of global climate change theory find them to be an embarrassment, and yet they seem to get more press than the ...
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To Fight Global Warming, Eat Less Corn and More Flaxseed…If You're ...

AllGov, CA
Cows could become a greater threat to global warming than cars or SUVs, scientists insist, which has prompted farmers in the US and Europe to experiment with the diets of bovines. At issue is the tremendous amount of methane gas that cows expel as a ...
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'Worse Than Fiction'

Wall Street Journal
So when one of those experts says that a recent report on the effects of climate change is "worse than fiction, it is a lie," the alarmists should, well, be alarmed. The latest contretemps pits former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, now president of ...
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No Climate Change Fix Without New Land Use, Farming Policies

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By climatebiz Staff - climatebiz Staff The world cannot effectively address climate change without altering our relationship with soil, the world's third largest carbon pool, according to a new report. Changing the way we manage land and produce food ...
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Global warming? Not so fast, skeptics say at meeting

The Virginian-Pilot, VA
For more information about critical research and questions on global warming, visit several Web sites: www.heartland.org, www.iceagenow.com, www.icecap.us, www.sepp.org. To read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports, visit www.ipc.ch.
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Mexico to voluntarily cut greehouse gas emissions

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MEXICO CITY, June 5 (Reuters) - Mexico will voluntarily cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 million tonnes a year by 2012, President Felipe Calderon said on Friday. The cut represents approximately 8 percent of Mexico's emissions, according to the ...
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US Energy Secy, UN chief meet on climate change

Reuters India, India
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met on Friday to discuss solutions to global energy problems and climate change. "The two leaders agreed on the global nature of our energy, ...
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UK on track to double Kyoto greenhouse gas reduction target

Energy Efficiency News, UK
The UK is on track to nearly double its greenhouse gas reduction under the Kyoto Protocol, according to report from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) released today to mark World Environment Day. DECC's report to the United Nations ...
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Challenges and Opportunities for US-China Cooperation on Climate ...

Brookings Institution, DC
It is critical that the US and China find ways to work as effectively as possible to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions, and this requires reality-based approaches by each side toward the other. First, why are China's greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Obama 'optimistic' US can lead on climate change

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DRESDEN, Germany (AFP) - President Barack Obama said Friday he was increasingly hopeful that the United States can lead the way on climate change, six months before crunch global talks in Copenhagen. "I'm actually more optimistic than I was about ...
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Sonjica says work on draft climate change policy continuing

Creamer Media's Engineering News, South Africa
As World Environment Day was observed on Friday, South Africa's Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Buyelwa Sonjica said that work on the country's draft climate change policy continued. Work on the draft policy began in March this year, ...
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Sailing the Arctic to find the human face of climate change

CNN International
By Cameron Dueck VANCOUVER, Canada (CNN) -- A small band of sailors are facing a summer of raging Arctic storms, cramped quarters and soggy clothes in their search for the human face of climate change. All hands on deck: The crew of the Silent Sound ...
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EU greenhouse gas emissions from waste decrease

MRW, UK
European Union greenhouse gas emissions emitted from waste have fallen by more than one third, new figures from the European Environment Agency show. Figures from the EEA show that between 1990 and 2007 waste emissions had fallen from 38.9 per cent.
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Nurturing forests, peatlands will attack global warming: UNEP

Space Daily, CA
The report touched on areas that are up for debate in talks to craft a new global pact on climate change. The accord, scheduled to be sealed in Copenhagen in December, will be take effect from the end of 2012. Separately, a study published in a science ...
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Obama More Optimistic US Can Lead Climate Change

Wall Street Journal
DRESDEN (AFP) -- US President Barack Obama said Friday he was increasingly hopeful that the US can lead the way on climate change, six months before crunch global talks in Copenhagen. "I'm actually more optimistic than I was about America being able to ...
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Global-warming special nothing but 'speculative drivel'

OneNewsNow, MS
The special took a futuristic worst-case scenario look at civilization in the next 100 years if no action is taken on supposed "manmade" global warming. ABC collaborated with top scientists who believe human-caused carbon emissions are heating up the ...
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Climate change pledges not so easy for some-Obama

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DRESDEN, Germany, June 5 (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama said on Friday it would be difficult to convince less wealthy countries such as China to commit to pledges aimed at reducing global warming. "It will be very difficult for us to persuade ...
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Global Warming Conference: A Warning on Warming Predictions

Heritage.org, DC
He blogs here and explains very well why the IPCC model predicts too much warming; in fact, his latest post "A Layman's Explanation of Why Global Warming Predictions by Climate Models are Wrong" is worth taking a look. His talk discusses why we cannot ...
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Pricing Carbon Emissions

MIT Technology Review, MA
By Kevin Bullis Experts are applauding a sweeping energy bill currently before the United States Congress, saying that it could lead to significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and improve the likelihood of a comprehensive international agreement ...
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Kodak sets green goals

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY
Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and ensure all its new products are energy efficient by 2012 under a set of new "worldwide sustainability goals." The company also wants to lower its employee injury rate.
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US House committee approves climate change bill

Oil & Gas Journal, TX
The oil and gas industry joined other industries that responded critically after the US House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a bill May 21 to address global climate change by instituting a cap-and-trade system. The committee beat the Memorial ...
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China commentary chides rich nations on climate change

Reuters India, India
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's official news agency has accused rich countries of shirking their duty to fight climate change and seeking to divide developing countries, warning that negotiations for a new global climate pact face deep disputes.
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All The Carbon Counts: Including Land-based Carbon In Greenhouse ...

Science Daily (press release)
But whether policies to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere should include this terrestrial source of carbon dioxide is under debate. According to a new study this week in Science, failing to include land use changes in such policies could ...
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Why the Caribbean must meet the challenge of climate change

Jamaica Observer, Jamaica
Globalisation is the staple of public discourse, the sound bite of choice that gave us the great growth spurt, the great excesses, followed by the great economic meltdown, not unlike the extensive melting of polar ice and glaciers at an unprecedented ...
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Climate change to raise a $340 bn bill

Economic Times, India
The influential report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, the first to calculate the human impact of climate change, finds that in 20 years, the death toll can hit 50000, and annual economic costs rise to $340 billion. Kofi Annan, president of the ...
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Kodak Ups Environmental Targets

Environmental Leader, CO
As part of previous goals, Kodak has reduced energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 40% since 2002, surpassing its 20% target. Kodak says it will now reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions at operations worldwide by another 10% by 2012 ...
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Let's unite to combat climate change threat

Gulf Daily News, Bahrain
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are calling on individuals, organisations in all sectors in Bahrain to unite in combating climate change. The country may only be responsible for 0.1 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions but per capita it is the sixth highest ...
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Pelosi Stressed Fiscal Discipline, Greenhouse Gas Initiatives in China

RTT News, NY
The House's efforts to enact a law regulating greenhouse gas emissions using a cap and trade system were also a subject of great interest in China, Pelosi said. "Frankly, it was a game changer for us in our discussions in China that the US was ready to ...
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Chu calls for global warming action

Harvard University Gazette, MA
Harvard was not spared in the global financial meltdown and has been forced to take a new, hard look at its spending priorities as it examines ways to cut its budget. Despite the difficulty, Faust said, this is not a time to feel victimized by ...
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The Human Cost of Climate Change

TIME
A forlorn polar bear stuck on a splintering glacier makes for a gripping visual, but a new report says there are millions of climate-change victims we don't see - and many look just like us. The Global Humanitarian Forum paints a grim portrait of the ...
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Climate Change Pros: Male, Well Paid and Secure

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By Tilde Herrera - Tilde Herrera Professionals in climate change-related fields are more likely to be male, highly educated, well paid and not worried about losing their jobs, according to a new survey. The results of the inaugural Carbon Salary Survey ...
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Scientists get measure of Antarctica's hidden heights

Xinhua, China
The research, published in Nature, was carried out by a collaboration involving the Polar Research Institute of China and the National Institute of Polar Research in Japan. It was part-funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), ...
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Did global warming help bring down Air France flight 447?

RT, Russia
As the investigation continues as to what brought down the French airliner over the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board, a Russian climatologist believes global warming played a significant part. For even the most experienced pilots, ...
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House Ag Panel Releases Climate Change Survey Results

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The House Ag Committee has now published the responses the panel received to its climate change survey. The Committee received more than 200 responses to the questionnaire. "The tremendous response to the Agriculture Committee's climate change survey ...
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China Challenge: How Can US, China Tackle Climate Change?

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Keith Johnson There's a new parlor game in Washington these days: Trying to figure out how the US and China can work together to tackle climate change. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hosted the latest round today, as resident China optimist ...
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Big Business Fails to Disclose Climate Change Risks

Huffington Post, NY
As climate change business impacts take hold, a growing number of investors are boosting their attention to the risks and opportunities from global warming that are embedded in their portfolios. GM failed to respond to climate risks by continuing to ...
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Mass. forms climate change advisory committee

Mass High Tech,  USA
The Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee was created by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 and comprises experts from business, academia and nonprofit organizations. The committee will meet periodically and report their findings to the ...
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Climate change work 'a game-changer': Pelosi

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the initial progress Congress has made on a climate change bill was a "game-changer" in her recent talks in China ahead of a major UN conference. "Frankly, it was a game-changer for us ...
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Agriculture could be part of solution to global warming

Economic Times, India
WASHINGTON: A new report released by the Worldwatch Institute has said that agriculture could become a big part of the solution to global warming. According to a report in Environmental News Network (ENN), innovations in food production and land use ...
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U.S., Canadian groups gear up to halt oil sands development

New York Times, United States
"We plan to make sure that sources of greenhouse gas emissions like the tar sands are not given a free ride," explained Natural Resources Defense Council Senior Attorney Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, referring to Alberta's vast oil shale deposits.
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How Antarctica Got Its Ice

U.S. News & World Report, DC
... in Earth's climate, which have already affected ice shelves in parts of Antarctica. The work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the International Polar Year program CHINARE, and the UK Natural Environment Research Council...
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Tips: 12 Steps to a Greener Life!

Alibaba News Channel, NEW YORK
Larger organisations may need specialised advice and tools, such as the new ISO 14064 standard for greenhouse gas accounting and verification, or the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, provided by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for ...
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NAFTA countries need common greenhouse-gas position: Charest

Canada.com, Canada
QUEBEC - Canada, the United States and Mexico should adopt a common position on greenhouse gases, Quebec Premier Jean Charest, hosting a meeting of Canadian premiers and governors from American and Mexican states, proposed Wednesday.
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Earth 2100--the reality. Scientists and FEMA prepare for the ...

Examiner.com
After I shared my concerns with them about the slow actions currently being taken on climate change, both responded with their own personal, private fears. Both stated that they personally felt that unless we humans take much stronger action than we ...
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Climate change law will boost state economy

Detroit Free Press, United States
BY THOMAS LYON ��� GUEST BLOGGER ��� June 3, 2009 Climate change legislation working its way through Congress provides real opportunities for Michigan's economy. Opponents are quick to overstate the costs, using scare tactics and bogus science, ...
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Kyoto Protocol's successor: too much too soon?

Los Angeles Times, CA
Ever since, Americans concerned about climate change have been hoping that when the successor treaty was negotiated in 2009, the United Nations would come up with something better: a verifiable, enforceable and fair way of assuring that nations curb ...
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Crunch-time for climate change

Canada.com, Canada
By William Marsden, Canwest News ServiceJune 4, 2009 Each new piece of scientific data makes it clearer that we're running out of time to take action on climate change. So the question is: Are we at the beginning of a global revolution or the beginning ...
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Scientists rebut idea that global warming is a crisis

Little Chicago Review, IL
Joe Bast, president and CEO of The Heartland Institute, helped edit the book; he says the book is a response to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report on global warming. "It is an authoritative, detailed, and completely scientific ...
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Your Global Warming Questions Answered

Today's TMJ4, WI
MILWAUKEE - Icecaps are melting...environments are changing...but many people still believe Global Warming is not real. TODAY'S TMJ4'S Chief Meteorologist John Malan met with Global Warming experts at a Climate Change Conference in Chicago.
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Cap-And-Trade Would Have Varying Effect on S&P 500

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The analysis also finds that the greenhouse gas emissions from companies in the S&P 500 total more than all the car, truck, bus and aircraft emissions in the United States. These findings are contained in a new report released by the not-for-profit ...
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Report Shows How the S&P 500 Would Fare Financially Under Cap-and ...

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The analysis found out that direct greenhouse gas emissions from companies in the S&P 500 in 2007 added up to about 2173 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, more than all the emissions from cars, trucks, buses and aircraft in the United States.
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Groups seek more SEC climate disclosure

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Federal regulators have not done enough to ensure that shareholders are aware of material risks to companies from greenhouse gas emissions, according to a pair of studies released Wednesday by environmental and investor groups.
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US role in new climate treaty hinges on China

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China and the United States are the world's largest emitters of climate-altering pollution, accounting for 40 percent of worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas. The culprit is the same in both places - a dependence on fossil ...
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Springtime on Titan? Cassini mission sees seasonal changes

Ars Technica, MA
Stable clouds are found around the north polar region, where the stratospheric ethane should condense in the cold winter polar night. On the other hand, the timing of the cloud events predicted by the models seem to be a little off.
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Companies Show Little Awareness of Climate Change Risks, Report Finds

GreenBiz, CA
WASHINGTON, DC -- Two new studies from investor group Ceres, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Center for Energy and Environmental Security assess the major impacts climate change could have on global companies, and calls on the US Securities and ...
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Small islands win UN vote on climate change security

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By Claudia Parsons UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic victory at the United Nations on Wednesday with the passage of a resolution recognizing climate change as a possible threat to security.
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US House puts climate bill on quick pace for passage

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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the US House of Representatives have put major environmental legislation on a fast-track, boosting chances a climate change bill will pass this month or next, leading lawmakers said on ...
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A China-US Partnership on Global Warming

U.S. News & World Report, DC
For that matter, China's position on global warming isn't entirely clear. It will not agree to binding emissions cuts, and a 2008 report in Science found that China was building the equivalent of two coal-fired power plants per day.
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China Syndrome: Will the US Go It Alone on Climate Change?

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Keith Johnson When it comes to a global treaty tackling climate change, will the US insist that China play ball or not? That question has come to a head this week-and sparked a query from Republican legislators-after US Energy Secretary Steven Chu ...
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US envoy sees climate partnership with China

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By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - The United States wants to forge a partnership with China, bringing the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases together to address global warming, Washington's top ...
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Companies not disclosing climate risks -studies

guardian.co.uk, UK
2 greenhouse gas polluter after China, is beginning to form policies that will for the first time put a price on emitting the gases. A climate bill that would require the country to cut emissions 17 percent by 2020 is working its way through the House ...
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Event Host: World Meteorological Organization

Ecosystem Marketplace, DC
The world must come together to improve climate prediction and information services that will significantly contribute to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Bali Action Plan and ...
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Big business 'failing to disclose climate risks' to investors

guardian.co.uk, UK
The world's major corporations are failing to provide a full account to investors of the risks and potential costs of climate change, a new report said today. The report, from the Ceres network of green organisations and investors, and the Environment ...
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Mexico sees support for UN climate finance plan

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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany, June 3 (Reuters) - A Mexican proposal to raise billions of dollars to fight climate change is winning backing in talks on a new UN treaty, paradoxically because no one really likes it, ...
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It is our responsibility to combat climate change

Daily Monitor, Uganda
This is a significant statement that remains powerful to date, not just for Americans but you and I, especially at this time when climate change is threatening our livelihoods and development efforts. As we commemorate World Environment Day, ...
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The world has warmed

Business Mirror, Philippines
Meanwhile, climate scientists say that changes in the polar ice sheets could raise sea levels by a meter or more by 2100. The implications could be severe, they warn. Ten percent of the world's population-about 600 million people-live in vulnerable ...
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Origin of Antarctic ice revealed

BBC News, UK
Sun Bo from the Polar Research Institute of China, who led this study, has now provided further insight into the evolution of the ice sheet. He and his colleagues travelled 1235km (767 miles) by tractor train from a research station at the edge of East ...
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UN climate treaty talks to go down to wire

Reuters
Around 190 nations will gather in Copenhagen in December to try to agree a global pact to fight climate change. Hedegaard will be President of the conference. It is envisaged that rich countries will agree to cut CO2 emissions below 1990 levels and ...
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Japan on the Hot Seat at Bonn Climate Change Talks

TPMCafe, NY
UN-sponsored climate change talks began on Monday in Bonn. The negotiations will last two weeks and represent a step on the path towards a successor to the Kyoto agreement scheduled to be completed by December. While the negotiations are underway many ...
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Fossil Teeth Hint at Animal Adaptation to Global Warming

Wired News
By Brandon Keim Amidst predictions of global warming-driven global extinctions, a dietary analysis of ancient teeth suggests that animals may prove more adaptable than expected. The tale of the teeth, collected at two sites in Florida and spanning a ...
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Global Warming Conference: More Scientific Dissent

Heritage.org, DC
Dr. Craig Idso, is the founder and chairman of the Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. He addresses concerns about global warming and marine life, including the death of the coral reefs and other underwater ecosystems.
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Poland, Hungary May Become More Like Sicily in Global Warming

Bloomberg
By Alex Morales June 2 (Bloomberg) -- The climate in Poland and Hungary may become more like that of Spain and Sicily by mid-century as global warming takes hold, the World Bank said. The two eastern European countries are likely to experience 37 "hot" ...
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Growing climate change may escalate ME conflict

United Press International
JERUSALEM, June 3 (UPI) -- Growing climate change and lack of water could spur further conflict and security concerns in the Middle East, a Danish environmental report warns. Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan and the occupied Palestinian territories ...
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Climate change hoax

Northwest Herald, IL
Global climate change is a complete hoax. It is the biggest con ever pulled on the world. The climate always has changed since the earth was formed. We are in a cooling trend for the last five years and will continue until the next century.
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Global warming as the worst science fiction--Earth 2100 makes ...

Examiner.com
By presenting a fictional account of future global warming, they will make it far more difficult to do what we do need to do to combat global warming. The greenhouse effect is real. CO2 does push up temperatures. Global warming has been occurring since ...
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Pelosi takes reins on climate change

The Hill, DC
has quickly taken charge of moving climate change legislation through the House, which will be one of the toughest challenges of her political career. Earlier this year, Pelosi said she was not involved in the day-to-day happenings on the controversial ...
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Cyclones, global warming linkage found

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NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 2 (UPI) -- Harvard University scientists say they've discovered a possible link between the development of tropical cyclones and global warming. David Romps and Zhiming Kuang of Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary ...
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ABC Global Warming Special Makes Up Future But It's Not 'Sci-Fi'

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Using predictions from top experts, we will brief participants on global conditions in the years 2015, 2050, 2070 and 2100 - and we want you to describe the dangers that are unfolding before your eyes. " The Media Research Center submitted a video and ...
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Pelosi Cites Optimism On Climate-Change Bill After China Trip

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By PATRICK YOEST, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Tuesday expressed optimism about China's progress on climate-change issues and the likelihood that Congress will have climate-change legislation ...
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Climate change threatens African farmland -study

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By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - Climate change could cost the African continent more farmland than the United States uses to plant its eight major field crops combined, according to a study published in the June issue of Environmental ...
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Pelosi Received In China With Pomp And Circumstance

Talk Radio News Service, DC
And in our own country, we saw the impact of climate change and of the global warming crisis. We saw that the polar cap is melting, the thermal control of the planet is affected��� It is urgent to meet the issue of global warming crisis," said Pelosi ...
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Woodside remains optimistic on LNG despite downturn

EnergyCurrent, TX
Growing concern about greenhouse gas emissions is underpinning demand for LNG as a cleaner source of energy. More emissions efficient than all other fossil fuels, LNG is the fuel that is helping the global economy transition to a low carbon future.
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Waiting for Sotomayor: 3-year delay in greenhouse gas case

CNN International
She was the presiding judge in a case involving state claims against power companies over greenhouse gas emissions. The case was filed in the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in September 2005. Sotomayor was one of three judges who heard oral arguments ...
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SAVE OUR PLANET?

Canada.com, Canada
Each new piece of scientific data makes it clearer that we're running out of time to take action on climate change. So the question is: are we at the beginning of a global revolution or the beginning of the end? It begs a speedy answer.
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Examiner.com's exclusive global warming debates: Roger Pielke Sr ...

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In the third of our global warming debates, and hot on the heels of yesterday's interview with Professor Stephen Schneider (which has several comments on the work of today's interviewee) we are happy to present Part 1 of our interview with Dr. Roger ...
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Rangel Says Climate Bill Takes Priority in House

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"I may have misspoke, until we say we've got to do climate change," Mr. Rangel said. "We've got a head of steam with the health bill," Mr. Rangel said. He said the order in which the House considers health, climate, or trade bills is less important.
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EU greenhouse gases decline due to warmer weather not cap-and ...

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Falling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in EU is not the result of the European emission trading system, this is at least the conclusion of the European Environment Agency's (EEA) greenhouse gas emissions inventory report released Friday.
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Burger King says "Global Warming is Baloney" signs have been removed

Memphis Flyer, TN
The Burger King Corporation (BKC) seems to be in denial regarding the decision by Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC), a Memphis-based management company with more then 40 Burger King locations across the Mid-South, to place the words "Global Warming ...
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GOP Governor Defends Against Obama's Imperialist Global Warming Policy

OpEdNews, PA
The GOP had Mitch Daniels deliver a weekly address recently where he came out against the Waxman-Markey legislation (the Obama Administration's and Congress' answer to concerns over global warming). He condemned the establishment of a cap-and-trade ...
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Alarm raised over forest plan to fight climate change

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BOGOR, Indonesia (AFP) - An ambitious plan to fight climate change by making polluters pay to preserve forests has come under a cloud, with some environmentalists calling it unworkable and dangerous. The plan, known as Reduced Emissions from ...
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Former Soviet bloc in firing line of climate change: World Bank

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PARIS (AFP) - The countries of the former Soviet bloc face huge challenges in the next decade to avoid the worst ravages of climate change, the World Bank warned on Tuesday. From Poland to Kazakhstan, from the Arctic circle to the Caucasus, ...
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State scientists unite against climate change

Detroit Free Press, United States
BY KNUTE NADELHOFFER ��� GUEST BLOGGER ��� June 2, 2009 Climate change is a serious and immediate threat to Michigan's way of life and our economy. Long-term records show that Michigan's climate has changed markedly during recent decades.
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Investors Must Lead Efforts to Reduce Climate Change Risks

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by Robert Kropp Report by the United Nations Global Compact finds opportunities in a transition to a low-carbon economy to be challenged by the urgency of climate change risks. socialfunds.com -- The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that in ...
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Key climate negotiations under way

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BONN, Germany, June 2 (UPI) -- Negotiations on a global climate change treaty began Monday in Bonn, Germany. Delegates from more than 180 countries meeting in the western German city are hammering out the details of a treaty to succeed the Kyoto ...
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What a difference a little ampersand makes for Beijing

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
He applied the dictum not just to resolving the world financial crisis but the "entire range" of issues, from climate change, global trade and the thorny diplomatic issues of Pakistan and North Korea. His respectful, even ingratiating tone, ...
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Science academies urge CO2 cuts to protect oceans, reefs

New York Times, United States
"At current emission rates models suggest that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or potentially even earlier," they wrote. Some climate models suggest that, at current CO2 emissions levels, 80 percent of Arctic ...
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A&M-College Station Studies Global Warming Effects On Hurricanes

KRIS-TV, TX
The study released on the first day of the new hurricane season predicts that global warming could have a major impact on the intensity of major storms and their effect on coastal cities, including Corpus Christi. The study is based on certain ...
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A Rogue Burger King Says "Global Warming Is Baloney"

The Business Insider, NY
A reporter in Tennessee noticed his local Burger King had a sign out front declaring "Global Warming Is Baloney." He tried to figure out if that was the official stance of Burger King, or just a franchise gone rogue. Turns out it's a franchise gone ...
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Energy from pig slurry helps fight climate change

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As the world struggles to reduce pollution causing climate change, attention has focused on the burning of fossil fuels in factories, power stations, and vehicles. But UN scientists says farming and forestry account for more than 30 percent of the ...
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Study finds climate change boosts Tex storm flood risk

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Climate change over the next 20 to 70 years can be expected to increase hurricane flooding in Corpus Christi, Texas, home of three US refineries, according to a study by Texas A&M University sponsored by the National Commission on ...
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Science academies: ocean acidification must be on CO2 agenda

Ars Technica, MA
The authors state that, at current rates of CO 2 emissions, ecosystems in polar waters will be under severe stress within the next 50 years. They recognize that some species will do well in the changed conditions; for example, a recent study shows that ...
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Australia may breach Kyoto greenhouse targets

NEWS.com.au, Australia
The Government's National Greenhouse Gas Accounts, released this week, show Australia emitted 553 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2008. That's short of the Kyoto cap, which is 559 million tonnes, but emissions have been rising by 1.5 per cent a ...
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Ottawa voiceless on climate change

Toronto Star,  Canada
The intensive preparations in provincial capitals would be laudable if not for the reality that something is sorely missing: a truly national response to the global spectre of climate change. After more than three years in power, ...
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Coming Clean on Going Green

BusinessWeek
In 2002 a group of investors banded together to ask companies to come clean on greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, the group has grown to 475 in 2009 from 35 in 2002 and has a combined asset base of $55 trillion.
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Biomass Power Generates Traction

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While greenhouse gas is released when biomass is burned, the process is considered nearly carbon neutral because the plants only emit the carbon they absorbed while they were growing. The plants would release the same amount of greenhouse gas if they ...
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Pro-Con | Is global warming real and threatening the planet?

Kansas City Star, MO
... which is why the polar ice caps are melting. And the scientific community - real scientists, not those who work for industry or right-wing think tanks - is united ��� in the belief in climate change and its connection to excessive carbon output.
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Burger Kings Deny Global Warming

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By ANTHONY BARTKEWICZ Several Burger King restaurants in and around Memphis, Tenn., were seen displaying the message "Global warming is baloney" on their signs, according to the Memphis Flyer. The Memphis Flyer's Chris Davis spoke with an employee at ...
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Climate talks move into next phase

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The US delegation wanted the text to put all countries on a more equal footing, requiring every country to take action to fight climate change according to its capability. Developing countries said the draft failed to take adequate account of their ...
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Dolphin and whale climate fears

BBC News, UK
Dr macleod, said: "In the past, the main concern was for the small number of polar species likely to be affected by a decline in sea ice. However, this new study shows that there are many more species to be worried about.
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World's next big climate pact begins to take shape

Christian Science Monitor
The protocol, which formally took force last year, calls on industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a combined average of 5.5 percent below 1990 levels. The timetable and topics the new treaty must cover were set out at global ...
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US climate bill best bet to take enviro lead: Chu

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By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US climate change bill making its way through Congress is the best legislative bet to help the country take the lead in tackling global warming on the world stage, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on ...
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US Fuel Efficiency Policy

Voice of America
In May, President Barack Obama set in motion a new national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks in the United States. The new standards covering automobile model years 2012 to ...
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