Global Warming Alarmists Are Considering the Wrong "Consensus"

Right Side News, GA
The Global Warming alarmists keep repeating that "the consensus" proves global warming and that the "discussion is over". If "consensus" is so important, then let's take a look at that, shall we? Mr. PAUL. "Madam Speaker, before voting on the ...
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Global warming 'balance'

Detroit Free Press, United States
As you can see (here and here), I found a global warming skeptic to do a set of blog entries for us, and although he's not from Michigan, he's at least from an adjacent area code and presumably knows what a trout is - although I think he's far too ...
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Anger builds over carbon trading

Calgary Herald,  Canada
Offsets are regulated credits --each equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide--produced when an organization reduces its greenhouse gas emissions. Those credits can be sold to another company, usually a major industrial emitter, to "offset" greenhouse ...
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Carbon tax could reduce greenhouse gas now

The Colorado Statesman, CO
Colorado's city of Boulder was the first municipality in the nation to levy a so-called carbon tax for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to address climate change. Now the rest of the nation needs to follow its example.
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Australians demand more action on climate change

Reuters India, India
SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Hundreds of environmental activists took to the streets of Australia's main cities on Saturday, saying the Labor government was not doing enough on climate change. The protests came ahead of a vote in the upper house Senate ...
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Global warming, climate change and the politics of language

Examiner.com
Global warming or climate change is not likely to be defeated by rhetoric alone. So it's easy--much too easy--to make fun of the non-profit PR group eco-America's attempt to redefine the vocabulary of this particular discussion. They're not the first, ...
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Republicans Slam Democrat Climate Change Bill

Voice of America
By VOA News Republicans Saturday called a Democratic bill under discussion in the House of Representatives equivalent to a national energy tax. Speaking for his party's weekly radio address, Indiana representative Mike Pence said the Democratic plans ...
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Climate change? Check this data

Detroit Free Press, United States
In the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Figure 9.1 shows that the main effect of CO2 over the past century (see panel (c)) should have been a strong warming in the mid-troposphere over the tropics.
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Wong defends policy amid climate change protests

ABC Online, Australia
Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has defended the Government's policies on climate change, despite criticisms of them at protests around the nation today. At a protest rally in central Sydney, streets were blocked off as more than 1000 people ...
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Climate change talks need to change

China Daily, China
By Fu Jing (China Daily) China Daily carried a report on Wednesday, saying China and the US had achieved nothing substantial at the bilateral climate change talks. But that was not to be, for shortly before boarding the flight back home on Wednesday ...
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Methane may be renewable energy

St. George Daily Spectrum, UT
GEORGE - St. George City officials hope to turn trash into cash this year, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the process. The city's Energy Services Department, in cooperation with the Washington County Solid Waste District, has proposed capturing ...
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'Global-warming' debate heats up in snowy Australia

American Thinker, WA
First the pro-free speech heretics published Professor Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth - a skeptic's guide to global warming, a runaway bestseller. What's more, the European Union President endorsed it. Now? The publisher informs me (via email) that a ...
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Methane capture could provide renewable energy

St. George Daily Spectrum, UT
GEORGE - St. George City officials hope to turn trash into cash this year, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the process. The city's Energy Services Department, in cooperation with the Washington County Solid Waste District, has proposed capturing ...
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US envoy speaks highly of China's measures to contain green house ...

Xinhua, China
"I was very favorably impressed by actions that China has already taken and is taking -- and by China's commitment to develop a low-carbon path forward and to take potentially far-reaching steps to contain their greenhouse gas emissions and at the same ...
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US and China Heat Up the Global-Warming Debate

The Takeaway, New York
By John Hockenberry, Farai Chideya, Melissa Locker Benavidez Top climate change officials from China and the US met this week in Beijing to hash out a pre-Copenhagen plan for cutting greenhouse gas. The two countries are the world's top two greenhouse ...
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Climate Change Treaty, to Go Beyond the Kyoto Protocol, Is ...

New York Times, United States
"Time is short, but we still have enough time," the official, Yvo de Boer, who is the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at a briefing. "I'm confident that governments can reach an agreement and want ...
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Former NCGA President Testifies On Climate Change Legislation

CattleNetwork.com, KS
National Corn Growers Association Past President Fred Yoder testified Thursday evening before the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture regarding climate change legislation currently being considered by Congress.
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US to China: No Emissions Limits, But Please Curb the Growth Rate

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China has to "very considerably" cut the growth rate of its greenhouse-gas emissions, said top climate negotiator Todd Stern. "We are expecting China to reduce emissions very considerably compared to where they would otherwise be��� ...
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US Rep. Frank Lucas fights greenhouse gas bill

NewsOK.com, OK
BY CHRIS CASTEEL WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declined Thursday to endorse a far-reaching House bill to curb greenhouse gas emissions. An Oklahoma congressman said it would "destroy" farmers' livelihoods. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne, ...
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FEMA Launches Effort to Measure Impact of Climate Change on Flood ...

New York Times, United States
Federal officials are struggling to calculate the fiscal impact that climate change could have on the nation's troubled public flood insurance program, amid predictions of intensifying downpours and more potent hurricanes.
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Even my dog can understand

Hughson Chronicle, CA
They are closely tied with the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) and the United Nations people that want to have a true world government. This of course gives Al Gore a huge budget to spend promoting the IPCC. This is the group that has ...
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Climate Change Conference Ends Without Agreement

Washington Post, United States
By David A. Fahrenthold and Ariana Eunjung Cha A United Nations conference on climate change -- intended to lay the groundwork for a global agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions in December -- concluded today with negotiators little closer to a deal.
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US to restart plans for a plant to capture greenhouse gases

Los Angeles Times, CA
By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington -- Federal officials announced an agreement this morning to restart plans to build an experimental plant that seeks to collect greenhouse gas emissions from coal before they enter the atmosphere.
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How the Global Warming Bill Will Affect Your Wallet

U.S. News & World Report, DC
By Matthew Bandyk In the coming weeks, Congress will likely consider a massive global-warming bill to create a new cap-and-trade program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. President Obama praised the bill, dubbed "Waxman-Markey" for its co-sponsors, ...
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A Global Warming Bill That's Bad News for Farmers -- and Their ...

istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR
The latest threat comes from global-warming legislation called Waxman-Markey (after its congressional sponsors). It doesn't target farmers directly, yet it's far and away Washington's most anti-agriculture proposal in years.
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Caribou, reindeer herds at risk across Arctic

Vancouver Sun,  Canada
"Given the magnitude of climate changes in the polar region, and human activities both in the boreal forest and in the North, it really casts doubt on the species' ability to recover." Information gathered from published literature, ...
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Who Is Winning the Race for the Arctic?

BusinessWeek
But which of the nations around the polar region will emerge as the winner of this Arctic Monopoly game? Is there even such a thing as a winner here? In any case, things are not looking particularly good for the United States.
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Accelerated Climate Change Will Cause Millions Of Refugees

io9, CA
A new report says tens of millions will be forced to flee their homes before the end of this decade, because of climate change. Researchers from Columbia University, the United Nations University, and CARE International issued In Search of Shelter to ...
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UN climate talks advance, poor urge more CO2 cuts

Reuters
"I look back on this as a significant session that has advanced our work in important ways," Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, told a news conference of the June 1-12 meeting among 183 nations. He said governments staked out far ...
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Scientists warn of gaps in ice monitoring

The Age, Australia
ANTARCTIC scientists warn they risk "going blind" to changes in climatically vital polar ice sheets because the most valuable satellite sensors are too old. Long gaps in monitoring the ice sheets that lock up most of Earth's fresh water are likely, ...
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Sensors too old to check ice

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
ANTARCTIC scientists warn they risk "going blind" to changes in climatically vital polar ice sheets because the most valuable satellite sensors are too old. Long gaps in monitoring the ice sheets that lock up most of Earth's fresh water are likely, ...
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US will exempt China from binding greenhouse gas targets

U.TV, UK
Only developed nations, including the US, would be expected to meet binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he said. "We're saying that the actions of developing countries should be binding, not the outcomes of those actions.
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Activists sound the alarm on climate failure

Irish Times, Ireland
To remind delegates that ice is melting at an alarming rate in the Arctic and Antarctic, Greenpeace has a bedraggled-looking homeless Polar bear dummy in the lobby of the Hotel Maritim conference centre. "No coins please - it's change I need," his sign ...
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UN climate chief confident of global warming pact

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
AP BONN, Germany (AP) - The UN's top climate change official says he is confident a new global warming treaty can be concluded this year, but key issues remain unresolved. Yvo de Boer says industrialized countries are still far from committing to ...
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Why The Tennessee Burger King Put Up The "Global Warming Is ...

The Business Insider, NY
The Burger King franchise that put up "Global Warming Is Baloney" on its sign finally explains why it did it. And boy is it a dumb reason. Speaking with Lou Dobbs on radio, the head of marketing for the Tennessee Burger King, JJ McNelis says the ...
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Offset System for Greenhouse Gases shows Government Unconcerned ...

Canada Free Press, Canada
"Whether or not greenhouse gases come down, income and employment certainly will," concludes McKitrick. So, today's government is not interested in real science, most environmental groups don't want to hear real science as the climate scare is now ...
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ANALYSIS-UN talks seek links in food, climate crises

Reuters
"That's a good sign but it's still very limited," said Nelson, referring to draft texts for a new treaty, which refer to high-carbon, organic soils as a possible store of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. The 181-nation Bonn meeting is the latest ...
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Awards Honor Local Solutions to Climate Change

Voice of America
By Catherine Cannon Climate change knows no boundaries, nor does the need for sustainable energy solutions. On Thursday, Britain's Prince Charles presented the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy to seven international finalists at a ceremony in ...
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Scientists Ask For G8 Action On Climate Change

RedOrbit, TX
According to science academies from across the globe, rich and developing nations need to lead the transition to a low-carbon economy to help fight the effects of climate change. In the message, which was sent to the Group of Eight industrialized ...
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Dispute on CO2 cuts forms roadblock to Copenhagen

Reuters
Many developed nations, however, say such curbs meant to avert the worst of climate change would cripple their economies. "The minus 25 to 40 range has become a sort of beacon," Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, told Reuters.
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Global warming: 'Rich nations must lead in damage control'

Daily News & Analysis, India
Mumbai: Contradicting the general perception that developing nations have a greater responsibility to check climate change and global warming, Oxfam, an international agency, released a report saying that rich countries should not only cut their ...
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Global warming takes the wind out of clean energy's sails—literally

OhMyGov!, DC
Reducing carbon emissions is a simple matter of turning to sources such as wind for alternate energy sources, right? Not so fast, says Eugene Takle, director of the Climate Science Initiative at Iowa State University. Takle states that his research ...
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Change in wind could boost valley's 'green' business

The Desert Sun, CA
In the midst of a push for "green" wind power, wind speeds are slowing in the East and Midwest - ironically due to global warming - according to a new study. But the study also shows a slight increase in wind speeds in the Coachella Valley and other ...
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Arctic researchers leave 'tremendous' footprint

Globe and Mail, Canada
Flying to remote Arctic locations, hop-scotching over the tundra by fuel-guzzling helicopters and smashing through polar seas in ice-breakers all produce large amounts of the carbon-dioxide emissions blamed for climate change.
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Who Is Winning the Arctic Game of Monopoly?

Spiegel Online, Germany
The Battle for Natural Resources in the Polar Region. A Spiegel Book. Aleqa Hammond, who was minister of finance and foreign affairs for Greenland's home rule government for many years, counters, "Some people think climate change is something bad.
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Caribou decline blamed on climate change, development

Edmonton Journal, Canada
Given the magnitude of climate changes in the polar region and human activities both in the boreal forest and in the North, it really casts doubt on the species' ability to recover," Vors said. Information gathered from published literature, ...
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America and China talk climate change

Economist, UK
America's most senior climate-change officials were meeting their Chinese counterparts. The two countries are by far the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. They will determine whether a worthwhile global treaty to limit emissions can be ...
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Refugees Now Being Displaced by Climate Change

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet, TX
A new report cautions that tens of millions of people will be forced to flee their homes over the next four decades due to a combination of climate change and subsequent rising sea levels. Researchers from United Nations University, CARE International ...
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US climate bill, UN pact seen more likely in 2010

guardian.co.uk, UK
They have seen it as a way for the United States, the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter on a per capita basis, to break a deadlock with China, the top overall greenhouse polluter, on taking action on global warming. Combined, the giants emit ...
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Why Farmers Should Support Global Warming Action

Center For American Progress, DC
Agriculture, energy, and global warming are inextricably linked, which is why America's farmers must be a part of the solution to global warming. Today the US House Committee on Agriculture conducts a hearing on the American Clean Energy and Security ...
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Teachers get lesson on climate change, energy

Arizona Republic, AZ
Fifty-six teachers came to Tempe this week for a workshop on climate change, covering issues such as solar energy and global warming. They were from schools in Ahwatukee, Apache Junction, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa and Phoenix, as well as Chino Valley, ...
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Dems Defecting on Global Warming Tax Bill

Dakota Voice, SD
Specifically, I'm referring to the monstrosity of a climate bill Democrats are working on, the cap-and-trade global warming tax bill. More and more Democrats are ready to vote against Speaker Nancy Pelosi's climate change bill, according to a ...
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Abrupt Global Warming Could Shift Monsoon Patterns, Hurt Agriculture

Science Daily (press release)
If similar changes were to happen to the Earth's climate today as a result of global warming - as scientists believe is possible - this might lead to drier tropics, more wildfires and declines in agricultural production in some of the world's most ...
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GOP Energy Plan: Nuclear Plants and Global Warming Denial

ChattahBox, MA
The plan also has a curious provision, which would essentially outlaw the entire scientific concept of global warming. The provision states, "the impact of greenhouse gas on any species of fish or wildlife or plant shall not be considered for any ...
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Burger King outlet's global warming signs were to 'raise awareness'

guardian.co.uk, UK
Photograph: Burger King/PA I thought every permutation of opinion had already been aired about the now world-famous "Global Warming is Baloney" story - or "GloBo" as I feel honour-bound to call it. But this is the story that refuses to die.
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Alberta satisfied with Ottawa's carbon market strategy

Calgary Herald,  Canada
CALGARY - Ottawa on Wednesday unveiled its scheme for trading greenhouse gas emission credits across the country -- a plan that gives farmers, wind producers and landfill operators the ability to make money by reducing their carbon footprints.
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US wind farm energy up in the air over climate change, says study

guardian.co.uk, UK
Photograph: Murdo Macleod The great gusting winds of the American midwest - and possibly the hopes for the most promising clean energy source - may be dying, in part because of climate change, according to a new report. A study, due to be published in ...
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nuclear industry tries to hijack Obama's climate change bill

guardian.co.uk, UK
Republicans in the House of Representatives produced a spoiler version of the Democrats' climate change bill this week, calling for a doubling of the number of nuclear reactors in the US by 2030. The 152-page Republican bill contains just one reference ...
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Peterson urges changes in energy and climate-change legislation

MinnPost.com, MN
Collin Peterson and members of the House Agriculture Committee called on the Obama administration today to pressure Congressional leaders to create a larger role for agriculture and forestry interests in the developing energy and climate-change ...
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Climate change worsens disaster risks for poor-UN

Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany, June 11 (Reuters) - Climate change will aggravate natural disasters and people in developing nations such as Dominica, Vanuatu, Myanmar and Guatemala are most at risk, a UN-backed study showed ...
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Climate Change and Intellectual Property

New York Times, United States
By John Lorinc The US Chamber of Commerce is anxious to protect the intellectual property of companies seeking to combat climate change. In his Monday post here at Green Inc., James Kanter wondered what it would take to get the developing world to sign ...
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India to tackle climate change in its own way, says Ramesh

Indian Express, India
Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Thursday emphasised that India would not be told which path to take for tackling climate change. Speaking to The Indian Express, Ramesh said: "We are not going to take any legal commitments or ...
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The Futility of Greenhouse Gas Abatement Continues

Heritage.org, DC
The only possible benefits from Waxman-Markey occur if the rest of the world, including the globe's largest emitter of greenhouse gases- China- also reduces its emissions. So how are those negotiations going? Financial Times reports: China and the US ...
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China says no to greenhouse gas cuts

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BEIJING (AFP) - China will not accept binding cuts in its greenhouse gas emissions, an official said Thursday, after the United States said it made progress with Beijing in talks here on a global climate pact. The comments came after a visit by US ...
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Canada Unveils National Carbon Trading System Plan

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Prentice explained in a statement, "The Offset System is an important part of Canada's efforts to reuce greenhouse gases... This system is one of several steps we are taking as we finalize our domestic regulatory framework for greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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N. Korea Threatens Global Warming

The Spoof (satire), UK
Pyongyang N. Korea (FTB newswire) Next month world leaders will gather in Istanbul Turkey for the redundant Global Conference on Global Warming 2009. Notably absent will be Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Jong Il, dictator for life, of the world's newest ...
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Texas takes high rankings in Pew clean energy study

Dallas Morning News, TX
She said the only major clean energy policy missing in Texas is restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions. The report comes as officials in Texas debate whether lawmakers have done enough to attract those clean energy jobs. "There are literally millions ...
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NASA to grant $8 million for climate change education

International Business Times, NY
NASA announced on Wednesday it will grant about $8 million to fund educational projects about global climate change. Get stories by e-mail on this topic. NASA aims to enhance students' academic experiences and improve educators' abilities to engage and ...
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Huge cost may alter cool attitudes toward climate change

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If you're not convinced climate change is happening and that it's going to cost plenty, take a look at a recent report by eco-economist David Yoskowitz, a professor at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. "The Galveston-area sea level rise over the ...
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Global Warming Tax Ready for Take-Off

Lew Rockwell, CA
"The suggestions come at the start of the second week in the latest round of UN climate talks in Bonn, where 192 countries are starting to negotiate a global agreement to limit and then reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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House GOP energy plan declares that impact of global warming ...

Think Progress, DC
But as The Wonk Room's Brad Johnson notes, the legislation looks more like an attempt to legislate the threat of global warming "out of existence." Indeed, the bill specifically states that at no point in implementing their energy plan can the effects ...
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Insurers Need to Address Climate Change By Building Windmills, Not ...

Reuters
By Sandy Hauserman - Sandy Hauserman No industry stands to gain -- or lose -- more from climate change than the insurance industry. Yet insurers and reinsurers have dragged their heels in response. This, however, will soon change as events unfold that ...
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A new measure of global warming from carbon emissions

EurekAlert (press release), DC
Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment has found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. Matthews, together with colleagues from Victoria and the UK ...
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Feds to establish carbon trading market.

Canada.com, Canada
The system is a part of the government's overall commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and will be one way that big industries can comply with mandatory emissions cuts the government will announce before December, he said.
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GLOBAL: How to measure vulnerability to climate change?

IRINnews.org, NY
JOHANNESBURG, 10 June 2009 (IRIN) - A complex but critical issue is being raised at the UN climate change talks in Bonn, Germany: finding a scale that determines how vulnerable developing countries are to climate change, which will help allocating ...
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China starts catching up on climate change

msnbc.com
It's just one of a series of steps the Chinese leadership has taken to address climate change. But the US says China's still not doing enough. "Even if every other country in the world cut its emissions 80 percent by 2050���China's business-as-usual ...
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Canada says plans to set up market for carbon

Forbes, NY
Under the rules, companies and individuals would receive the credits for investing in clean energy projects like wind turbines and could sell those credits to enterprises that cannot meet targets for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Report says climate change is adding to migration

The Associated Press
Estimates vary on how many people are on the move because of climate change, but the report cites predictions from the International Organization for Migration that 200 million people will be displaced by environmental pressures by 2050.
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Top Climate Scientists Urge Action in Run Up to Historic Meeting

Huffington Post, NY
The Bonn climate talks are the first big step towards a very large and historical meeting that will take place in Copenhagen in December of this year. The Copenhagen United Nations Climate Change Conference - or in UN lingo "COP 15" - will be venue for ...
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Texas Hold 'Em: Gov. Perry Hates Climate-Change Bill, Loves Clean ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
But he saved his sharpest barbs for the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill and its cap-and-trade provision to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. He said it amounted to "the largest tax increase in the history of our country." It would devastate the Texas ...
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Full climate deal 'unlikely' in Copenhagen

AFP
"I don't think it is possible between now and the end of Copenhagen to finalise every last detail of a post-2012 [accord], of a long-term response to climate change," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate ...
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Fickle Breezes: Study Says Climate Change Means Lower Wind Speeds

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By Keith Johnson Chalk up another casualty of climate change: Wind speeds in many parts of the US seem to be decreasing, which could make life tougher for the wind industry. A study to be published later this summer says that climate change has led to ...
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EU lukewarm on Japan climate-change proposals (Roundup)

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Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis was also sceptical about Aso's announcement, pointing out that the 1997 agreement on climate change known as the Kyoto Protocol calls for Japan to cut emissions to 6 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012.
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Climate change forces new migration response-study

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By Gerard Wynn BONN, June 10 (Reuters) - Climate change will force millions of people to leave their homes to flee rising seas and drought over the coming decades, requiring a new plan for mass migration, said a report published on Wednesday.
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Water stress, ocean levels to unleash 'climate exodus'

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"Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before," its authors warned. "Climate change is already ...
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Not so windy: Research suggests winds dying down

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And the cause, ironically, may be global warming - the very problem wind power seeks to address. The idea that winds may be slowing is still a speculative one, and scientists disagree whether that is happening. But a first-of-its-kind study suggests ...
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Japan unveils new ambitious greenhouse gas emissions target

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TOKYO (AP) - Japan has unveiled a more ambitious target to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The country's prime minister said Wednesday that his country would reduce emissions by 15% from its 2005 level. Aso's announcement comes as delegates ...
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Deal to combat climate change on the way

Daily Nation, Kenya
There is renewed hope that a new global deal to tackle climate change will be reached by the end of the year. Delegates attending climate change talks in Bonn, Germany say such an outcome is possible given sufficient political will and despite the ...
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Climate change forces new migration response

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By Gerard Wynn BONN (Reuters) - Climate change will force millions of people to leave their homes to flee rising seas and drought over the coming decades, requiring a new plan for mass migration, said a report published on Wednesday.
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Report: Climate change adding to migration

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BONN, Germany (AP) - A report says climate change is becoming a major driver in the migration of tens of millions of people battered by storms, droughts and the inundation of their lands by sea water. Estimates of the number of climate migrants are ...
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Putting the burning question to global-warming alarmists

Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
STEVE Fielding has had a conversion that could blow apart the great global warming scare. No wonder the Rudd Government is scrambling and the ABC is already sliming the Family First senator. You see, Fielding has suddenly realised that global warming ...
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China to Back North Korea Sanctions, UN's Ban Says

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The government in Beijing is "quite serious" and there is "not a big gulf" between its commitment to clean energy and US proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, he said. The US said today that talks with China have been "fruitful and productive" for ...
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Climate change blamed for Caribbean coral deaths

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LONDON (Reuters) - Climate change has contributed to a flattening of the complex, multi-layered architecture of Caribbean coral reefs, compromising their role as a nursery for fish stocks and a buffer against tropical storms, a study shows.
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Fielding's climate change views 'of concern'

The Canberra Times, Australia
Not even the findings of a scientific United Nations body on the causes of climate change are good enough for Family First's Steve Fielding. Senator Fielding met with climate change sceptics who blame global warming on solar flares, not human activity ...
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Barack Obama Seeks US-Chinese Deal on Global Warming

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by Suzanne Goldenberg The Obama administration said yesterday that it was pursuing a joint US-Chinese deal on action against global warming to help push the rest of the world towards a global agreement on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fielding wants climate change proof from Wong

ABC Online, Australia
After meeting with several climate change sceptics in the US last week, Senator Fielding says solar flares may be the primary cause of climate change. He wants the Government to allow him access to their scientists so he can debate the issue with them.
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Is taxing cow flatulence the right way to prevent global warming?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO
There's little they can do to prevent something that occurs naturally. Is this new "cow fart tax" the right way to limit America's greenhouse emissions or is it just another way the government can get more money? Is the fear of global warming causing ...
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Have it your way

Examiner.com
In one fell swoop, the Guardian UK took an American Civil Rights issue as well as the Global warming Hoax to another level. A reporter for the Memphis Flyer Chris Davis, noticed a message on the marquis: "Global warming is Baloney".
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Playing politics with global warming

The Citizen.com, GA
2007 report stated: It is "very likely" that human activity is causing global warming. Why then, just two months later, did the vice chair of the IPCC, Yuri Izrael, write, "the panic over global warming is totally unjustified;" "there is no serious ...
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Opinion: Congress needs to hear from constituents on climate change

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
Among environmental advocates, there is much hope that this year we will finally witness the passage of climate change legislation capable of slowing the gradual warming of our planet. Be it the capping of carbon emissions, the call for conservation or ...
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Of Kites, Coal and the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill

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By Marc Gunther - Marc Gunther If nothing else, the Waxman-Markey climate change bill is keeping the think tanks and Washington lobbyists busy. I've been surveying analyses and comment from critics including The Heritage Foundation ("a massive energy ...
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Japan set to unveil timid target on climate change: campaigners

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The target will be announced by the government as part of a larger strategy for tackling climate change, said Kimiko Hirata of Kiko Network, part of an alliance of green groups called the Climate Action Network (CAN). In formal terms, the government ...
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The economics of global climate change

Minnesota Public Radio, MN
The sustainability and global climate change debate is shifting from science to political economy. I'm probably late to this paper, but I just read the keynote address by Yale economist William Nordhaus at the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, ...
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The Global Warming International Flight Tax

Heritage.org, DC
As liberal environmentalists and tax-happy politicians scheme over strategies to hike international flight rates to raise funds to address alleged global warming, North Dakotans are celebrating snowfalls in June. Anomalies like snow in June certainly ...
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Japan set to unveil timid target on climate change

The Australian, Australia
The target will be announced by the government as part of a larger strategy for tackling climate change, said Kimiko Hirata of Kiko Network, part of an alliance of green groups called the Climate Action Network. In formal terms, the government would ...
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House climate bill would trim budget deficit, CBO says

New York Times, United States
According to CBO, the bill would cover about 72 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions in 2012, ramping up to about 86 percent in 2020. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the bill last month, and it now must go through at least eight ...
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Berners-Lee: Web could cure cancer and halt climate change

The Tech Herald, IN
... the man credited with creating the Web as we know it, has said he sees the Internet contributing heavily towards the development of cures for presently incurable diseases and also in helping combat the onslaught of climate change.
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Burger King franchises try to sell climate change denial

Daily Kos, CA
by DWG Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC), a major owner of Burger King franchises in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, decided to sell climate change denial along with their high fat, sodium, and calorie menu options.
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The Great Transformation: Climate Change as Cultural Change

Center For American Progress, DC
When it comes to climate change, moments of optimism have been few and far between. But I believe now is a time for measured optimism. Over the last eight years-as the findings of climate scientists became more precise, more accepted, ...
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Japan should set strong 2020 greenhouse gas curbs, UN

Reuters UK, UK
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, June 9 (Reuters) - Japan should set strong 2020 targets for greenhouse gas curbs since Tokyo will be judged against a past promise of a six percent cut, the head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat ...
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CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-Cargill sells emission offsets

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UL] said Monday it had sold greenhouse gas emission offsets related to its beef-processing plant in the Canadian province of Alberta, marking the first time the grain company has sold the environmental credits in Canada or the United States.
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Food produces greenhouse gases in Canada

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OTTAWA, June 9 (UPI) -- Spending on food and non-alcoholic beverages in 2003 resulted in the release of nearly 46000 kilotons of greenhouse gases in Canada. scientists said. Statistics Canada said the first comprehensive national estimate of ...
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Cargill sells emission offsets for first time

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Cargill said Monday it had sold greenhouse gas emission offsets related to its beef-processing plant in the Canadian province of Alberta, marking the first time the grain company has sold the environmental credits.
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Mexico to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Environmental Leader, CO
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon announced that Mexico will voluntarily cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 million tons a year by 2012 through the use of more efficient cars and power plants as well as reductions in gas leaks and flaring by the ...
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Governors warn energy plan could stifle growth

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Industries facing such costs might move overseas into nations with less stringent standards, resulting in little progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, Barbour said. Barbour and the other governors said that while "the train is ...
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China response to Obama climate envoy positive

Washington Post, United States
China said Tuesday it was committed to ensuring a successful outcome to this year's Copenhagen climate change conference, sounding a positive note at the close of a two-day visit to Beijing by US President Barack Obama's envoy on climate change.
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US and China hold world in their hands

San Francisco Business Times, CA
And the US should set an example for China by committing to strict emissions targets. And vice versa. With a rapidly growing population and with 1 billion expected to live in China's main cities by 2020, it's bye-bye polar bears if China doesn't act ...
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