How bad will the Northwest get clobbered by climate change?

Examiner.com
According the climate report released by the White House on June 16, 2009-global warming is real and is caused by human activity. The Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States is the most comprehensive 197 page report done on the subject, ...
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As Moderate Democrats kill health care reform so goes Climate Change

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As moderate Democrats kills health care reform, so goes Climate Change. Moderate Democrats have sided with Republicans in the House looking to hoot down health care reform. The White house unveiled a plan yesterday that contained no mention of costs.
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Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?

Christian Science Monitor
By Ron Scherer | 06.15.09 Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond ...
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Counting Carbon at Madison Square Garden

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By Tilde Herrera - Tilde Herrera Deutsche Bank unveiled a giant billboard in New York City yesterday as part of a public awareness campaign to educate Americans about rising greenhouse gas emissions. The bank hopes the mammoth Carbon Counter launched ...
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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps

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WASHINGTON (AP) - One contributor to global warming - bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants - is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Cow burps.
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CORRECTED

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The 10 states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative cap-and-trade system said on Friday that they raised $104.2 million in the fourth quarterly auction of carbon allowances held on June 17. Prices in this auction cleared below ...
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Change Isn't Obama's Alone

National Journal, DC
by Charlie Cook Whether or not one agrees with President Obama and congressional Democrats on the massive restructuring of the financial and automobile sectors, their historic efforts at health care reform or plans for climate change legislation, ...
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Earth hour and global warming

Merinews, India
IN 2007, WWF-Australia, Fairfax Media and Leo Burnett began an initiative to increase public awareness in regard to global warming by introducing Earth Hour to Sydney, Australia. More than two million Sydney residents participated, turning off their ...
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Fantasy or fiction: noaa's climate change impacts report

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The Climate Change Impacts in the United States report (download here) Executive Summary began rather predictably with, " Observations show that warming of the climate is unequivocal. The global warming observed over the past 50 years is due primarily ...
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Oh my: Health care, amnesty, climate change bills all suddenly in ...

Hot Air, MD
Especially when Drudge has an item up about talks on climate change between Democrats having blown up last night and Gibbs telling the White House press corps today that the votes still aren't there on amnesty, notwithstanding the fact that the ...
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Climate Change Accounting Goes Public in a Big Way

SolveClimate, NY
The Carbon Counter vividly drives home a vital point not only about climate change - 800 tons of carbon pollution is going into the atmosphere every second - but about a short-sighted economic system that is burdening our planet like never before: We ...
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Greenhouse gas meter

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Deutsche Bank, sponsor of the seven-storey sign, says it is the first scientifically valid, real-time read-out of the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. That figure is now 3.64 trillion tonnes, the highest in 800000 years.
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Frances Beinecke: Reports Show Global Warming Already Hurting ...

AlterNet, CA
At first, most were based on modeling and projections, but more recently, they have included an alarming element: empirical evidence that global warming is interfering with America's water supply and agriculture right now. The report released this week ...
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House GOP Decries Speed of Climate Plan

New York Times, United States
By DARREN SAMUELSOHN and GREENWIRE Senior House Republicans complained today that Democrats are sidestepping key committees as they try to cobble together the votes for floor passage of a comprehensive energy and global warming bill.
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Climate Change Bill Stalls Over Agriculture Concerns

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Farm state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are slowing progress on a energy and climate change bill because they fear that potential restrictions could exponentially hurt their energy-intensive industry and boost food prices.
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US Government's Climate Con-job

Town Hall, DC
Wildflowers disappearing from Rocky Mountain slopes and polar bears from the Arctic. Leisure time gone as people struggle to survive. "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States" is the "most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive" analysis ...
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The new carbon billboard in Times Square.

Newsweek
By Michael D. Lemonick | Newsweek Web Exclusive Climate change is likely to have all sorts of nasty consequences over the next century-among them, according to a brand-new report from the US Global Change Research program, an increase in torrential ...
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Democrats urged to play down 'global warming'

Washington Times, DC
House Democrats neared a deal Thursday on a bill to combat global warming, but a top party strategist warned that to sell any plan to voters they'll need to change the way they pitch it -- including curbing the use of the term "green" jobs and even ...
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Greenhouse gas auction nets $104 million

CNBC, Englewood Cliffs
ALBANY, NY - The fourth quarterly auction of carbon allowances raised more than $104 million for the 10 Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative states to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. All 30.8 million allowances offered on June ...
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Russia to reduce total greenhouse gas emission by 30 billion ...

Kyiv Post, Ukraine
Russia is to reduce its total greenhouse gas emissions by 30 billion tonnes over a period since the 1990s until 2020 and expects similar steps from its partners, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "We must make it clear for ourselves how much of ...
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Russia's Medvedev announces greenhouse gas target

Reuters
MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev set greenhouse gas emission goals on Friday, saying Russia would aim to cut emissions by 30 billion tonnes between 1990 and 2020. Russia's goal would allow a rise in greenhouse gases of 29 ...
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Latest Greenhouse Gas Allowance Auction Nets $39.9 Million for NY

ReadMedia (press release), NY
This auction, the fourth held by the 10 states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), generated more than $104.2 million to invest in the clean energy economy. New York's share of the proceeds is approximately $39.9 million.
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Climate contrarians

The Australian, Australia
It says the present trend in greenhouse gas emissions is significantly above the worst-case projections in previous reports. Focusing on the effects in the US, it predicts more frequent and intense heat waves, more flooding, threats to coral reefs and ...
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Global Warming May Be to Blame for Sudden Collapse in Ancient ...

7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY
Scientists have unearthed striking evidence of a sudden collapse in plant biodiversity from a trove of 200-million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland that raises new concerns about the dangers of global warming.
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Climate change report devotes chapter to Alaska

KTUU, AK
AP - June 18, 2009 6:24 PM ET JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Alaska merits a chapter in a new White House report on climate change report, which says temperatures in the state have climbed at twice the rate of the rest of the nation over the last half-century.
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Global warming threat looms large over Hawaii

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI
A rising sea level and frequent storms are likely to threaten future generations of islanders unless strong preparations are made to minimize global warming while preparing for the worst. The threat was largely ignored by the Bush administration, ...
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Global warming braked less than expected by haze

Reuters
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Air pollution, dust and other tiny particles that can bounce sunlight back into space are braking global warming less than previously believed, a Norwegian study said.
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South Korean PM says threats from climate change, economic crisis ...

Los Angeles Times, CA
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said Friday that Asia is at grave risk from climate change and warned that responding to the environmental threat cannot be separated from fighting the global economic crisis.
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EU Govts To Agree On Climate Change Financing Principles-Draft

Wall Street Journal
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--European Union leaders are likely to agree Friday that all countries, except the world's poorest, should contribute to financing the fight to climate change in developing nations, on the basis of their wealth and the amount of ...
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Global warming: Want to see Northwest impacts? Just look around

Seattle Post Intelligencer
"We are the alpha and the omega of global warming," said Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., who helped write a flawed -- but needed -- bill to change national energy policy. It's pending in the House. Want to know how climate change is changing America? ...
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Britain releases new climate change report

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AP LONDON - Britain's soggy summers will become warmer and drier, and London could experience scorching heat waves by late this century, a government-backed report on climate change said Thursday. The study outlines three scenarios for climate change, ...
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Global warming fuel rules put freeze on automakers

The Detroit News, MI
The new controls to limit so-called global warming gases will cost GM, Ford and Chrysler additional billions of dollars -- money that could be better spent on developing new, more fuel-efficient cars and improving automotive safety.
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The Big Chill

Wall Street Journal
By PETE DU PONT Two months ago this column offered an analysis of the Waxman-Markey global warming bill, its enormous cost and its practical impossibilities. Sometime in the next few weeks Congress will begin consideration of the bill, ...
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Turnbull in way of legacy on climate change

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Despite all these warnings, we have accelerated the carbon pollution that is causing climate change. Next week, for the first time, the Senate will vote on laws that will stop that growth. If the Senate passes the laws, by 2020 our carbon pollution ...
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Climate Change Will Cause Shipping Delays, Higher Insurance Losses ...

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By ClimateBiz Staff - ClimateBiz Staff While some have trouble imagining what the worst impacts of climate change will look like, the effects are apparent today and projected to get dramatically worse if nothing is done to rein in greenhouse gas ...
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Alaska polar bear numbers declining

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The United States officially recognized polar bears as an endangered species last year as a result of the warming Arctic climate, which has wiped out much of the summer sea ice critical to the animals' survival. Russian poaching, believed to be spurred ...
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Report says United States already feeling effects of global warming

Associated Baptist Press, FL
With less than 5 percent of the world's population, America is responsible for about 28 percent of human-induced heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere today. While China recently passed the United States in total annual greenhouse-gas emissions, ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATIVE BATTLE GETTING REALLY HOT!

Helicopter Association International, VA
Meanwhile, the White House released a report this week detailing the effects of climate change, saying human activity is making most of America hotter, wetter, and possibly more dangerous. The report spells doom and gloom for the Northeast - by late ...
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NASA Successfully Launches Lunar Mission

eWeek,  NY
The primary focus of the mission will be to study the moon's relatively unexplored and extremely cold polar regions. The temperatures at the poles are approximately 370 degrees below 0 Fahrenheit, cold enough to trap water ice.
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New York sign counts global greenhouse gases

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The bank said it was the world's first sign to show real-time measurement of the gases blamed for global warming and hoped it would spark more public debate on how to reduce emissions. The giant carbon counter developed by scientists at the ...
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Obama Dead Wrong About Global Warming, Among Other Things

Opposing Views, CA
This is indeed a problem if one believes that human emissions are driving global warming, a mortal threat to our planet. And, after all, scientists all agree on that, right? Actually, the only hubris more startling than believing a small cabal of ...
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US Climate Report Assailed

New York Times, United States
By John Tierney The new federal report on climate change gets a withering critique from Roger Pielke Jr., who says that it misrepresents his own research and that it wrongly concludes that climate change is already responsible for an increase in ...
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Weather Monitoring Stations Will Help Africa Adapt To Climate Change

Voice of America
Its aim is to help people across the continent adapt to the impact of climate change. The Global Humanitarian Forum headed by former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization and leading mobile ...
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Greenpeace Parody of Newspaper Spotlights Climate

New York Times, United States
By THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE PARIS - The environmental group Greenpeace on Thursday distributed a spoof version of The International Herald Tribune, in an effort to draw attention to climate change as European Union leaders gathered to discuss ...
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2.1 million-year high measured for CO2 in atmosphere

Houston Chronicle, United States
Polar researchers reported last year in the journal Nature that carbon dioxide was at an 800000-year high, after studying bubbles trapped in ice drilled from the Antarctic. Hoenisch and colleagues investigated the role of the carbon cycle in climate ...
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Obama's forgotten climate agenda

CNNMoney.com
Earlier this week, government scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said evidence of climate change was already apparent in the United States, and that "the current trend in the emission of greenhouse gas pollution is ...
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Continental biofuel flight cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly

Green Right Now, CA
By Ashley Phillips The friendly skies are getting cleaner thanks to efforts made by Continental Airlines in partnership with Boeing, GE Aviation/CFM International, and Honeywell's UOP. In early January of this year, Continental Airlines conducted the ...
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Report of Abundant US Natural Gas Supplies Rattles Energy Debate

New York Times, United States
Meanwhile, the report is also significant in light of pending congressional efforts to enact a sweeping bill to place mandatory limits on US greenhouse gas emissions. House Democratic leaders plan to bring a sweeping climate bill to the floor in the ...
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Britain faces severe warming by 2080s: study

Reuters
The UK Climate Impacts Programme used computers owned by Britain's Met Office, the government weather center, to estimate how the climate will change due to global warming if action is not taken to cut emissions. Its last report was in 2002. Continued.
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Dow Chemical, Gazprom to research climate change

Forbes, NY
AP , 06.18.09, 11:53 AM EDT HOUSTON -- Dow Chemical Co. and Russian energy giant Gazprom said Thursday they will jointly study and form projects designed to reduce greenhouse gases. As part of the agreement, Gazprom will use its marketing and trading ...
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Climate change is already here

Juneau Empire, AK
By Kate Golden | JUNEAU EMPIRE A new White House climate change report devotes a chapter to Alaska, where temperatures have risen twice at twice the rate of the rest of the country in the last half-century. The state is the front line of climate change ...
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Closing the Climate Change Accounting Loophole

Huffington Post, NY
Half a million people will see the billboard daily and millions more can do so on the web at http://know-the-number.com The Carbon Counter vividly drives home a vital point not only about climate change -- 800 tons of carbon pollution is going into the ...
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Are humans to blame for global warming?

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What is global warming? "Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earths' surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns.Global warming can occur from a variety of ...
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Dow, Gazprom to work on reducing greenhouse gases

Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Chemical Co and Russia's Gazprom Marketing and Trading Ltd said on Thursday they will work together to develop and implement greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world. The companies signed a memorandum of understanding ...
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NYC billboard monitors rising greenhouse gases

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NEW YORK (AP) - New Yorkers have long been able to keep tabs on the national debt, but they now have a highly visible counter to track greenhouse gas emissions. A 70-foot-high billboard outside Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station, ...
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Ocean core provides ancient climate record

United Press International
"We've now generated a climate record from this core that has a very high temporal resolution, one that is decipherable at increments of 100 to 300 years," post-doctoral fellow Harunur Rashid of OSU's Byrd Polar Research Center said.
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Scared silly about global warming

Malta Independent Online, Malta
The newspaper also reported that parents are searching for "productive" outlets for their eight-year-olds' obsessions with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary to common belief, ...
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Turnbull in way of decent legacy on climate change

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Despite all these warnings, we have accelerated the carbon pollution that is causing climate change. Next week, for the first time, the Senate will vote on laws that will stop that growth. If the Senate passes the laws, by 2020 our carbon pollution ...
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Climate Report: UK Could Soon Look Like Spain

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British summers could soon be like those in the drought-ridden Mediterranean, and the winters characterized by severe flooding, according to a new report on climate change. UK Climate Impacts Report predicts extremes of temperature will hit the UK if ...
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Low-Carbon European Economy Will Require System Overhaul

New York Times, United States
Noting that European transport still relies overwhelmingly on fossil fuels, Antonio Tajani, EU commissioner in charge of transport policy, said that greenhouse gas emissions pose a "major challenge" for the European transport sector.
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Oceans Rising Faster Than UN Forecast, Scientists Say

Bloomberg
By Alex Morales June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Polar ice caps are melting faster and oceans are rising more than the United Nations projected just two years ago, 10 universities said in a report suggesting that climate change has been underestimated.
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Mobiles boost Africa climate data

BBC News, UK
Former UN chief Kofi Annan says the project could help save lives of people on "the frontlines of climate change". "The world's poorest are also the world's most vulnerable when it comes to the impact of climate change, and the least equipped to deal ...
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Doomsday global warming report requires action

Kansas City Star, MO
The new report shows global warming already is affecting temperatures, sea levels and glaciers. In the Midwest, winters have grown warmer in recent decades. The latest information should put pressure on Congress and the administration to press forward ...
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Shut plant down

Detroit Free Press, United States
In addition to these issues, heightened concerns and coming federal regulations regarding greenhouse gas emissions should give the City Council another reason to stop using the incinerator. In response to a US Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gas ...
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With carbon dioxide, the sky has limits

Record-Searchlight, CA
... global warming or climate change. Even if you haven't studied the subject, you likely have the vague sense that scientists believe we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions or the world's glaciers will melt away, the polar bears will perish, ...
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Obama Has Stomach for a Full Plate

Wall Street Journal
And, as if that's not enough, he wants to change the way the oil- and coal-addicted US economy uses energy to lighten its dependence on foreign oil and reduce carbon emissions to restrain global climate change. Add it up -- government plus energy and ...
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New Report on Climate Change

KAALtv.com, MN
In this new report, the government says effects from global warming are here -- and worsening. It says if we don't act now - it will drastically affect where and how we live in the future. Sea levels are expected to rise 3 to five feet by the end of ...
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UK maps climate change forecasts

BBC News, UK
By Richard Black Detailed forecasts of how climate change may affect the UK during this century are to be released by the government later. The report will predict how temperature and rainfall are likely to change at regional and local scales.
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All-out blitz to support Waxman-Markey Bill VIDEO OF AD

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Sets a declining cap on greenhouse gas emissions at 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% by 2050. Establishes a cap-and-trade program to encourage investment in clean energy technologies and new manufacturing jobs. Promotes clean energy by requiring ...
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Government report says climate change impacts the southeast

WACH, SC
AP Video By Justin Kier A new government report paints a scary picture about global climate change. It states the phenomenon will affect everyone from farmers to inland residents to coastal homeowners. "Climate change is happening and its happening now ...
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Innovation Economics Can Fight Global Warming

BusinessWeek
would for the first time impose caps on carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming. It also would allow companies to buy credits from each other, permitting them to exceed their greenhouse gas limits. While the so-called cap-and-trade ...
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Ag climate change impacts examined

Feedstuffs, MN
This week the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released an assessment about climate change and the impacts on agriculture. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator and undersecretary of Commerce, stated the report confirms that ...
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House may vote on climate change bill next week

Reuters
Hoyer, speaking to reporters, said he expects the House to wrap up action on the climate change bill, which is a high priority of the Obama administration, either next week or the week of July 6, following a holiday recess.
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report warns of climate change

CNN International
By Alexander Mooney (CNN) -- Man-made climate change threatens to stress water resources, challenge crops and livestock, raise sea levels and adversely affect human health, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Tuesday.
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Global Warming Bill Is A Job-Killer

Investor's Business Daily
Now they want to kill even more of them with an equally unnecessary global warming bill. The party that cares so much about jobs for "working families" sure has a funny way of saving them. Amid pre-summer frosts and hailstorms, the White House this ...
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White Roofs Slow Global Warming

Enterprise IT Planet, CT
In a recent speech, Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested that global warming could be slowed by reflective white roofs. Dark roofs absorb more than 80% of solar energy, while white roofs can reflect up to 75% of solar energy away.
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Climate change threatens water supplies

United Press International
The climate change assessment, researched by members of the US Global Change Research Program, placed water supply issues at the top of the list because every region of the country faces major threats to their supplies, be it from population growth or ...
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EnerNOC to acquire greenhouse-gas software and services firm ...

Bizjournals.com, NC
The Boston-based demand side management technology company (Nasdaq: ENOC) said Boston-based eQuilibrium's software, which helps companies track and monetize their greenhouse gas emissions, will be integrated into EnerNOC's existing energy management ...
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Warming may outstrip Africa's ability to feed itself: study

AFP
"When we looked at where temperatures are headed, we found that for the majority of Africa's farmers, global warming will rapidly change conditions beyond the range of what occurs anywhere in their country," he said. The study is based on a mid-range ...
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Energy Roundup: Global Warming Doomsday, New Solar Thermal, High ...

BNET, Ca
By Chris Morrison | June 17th, 2009 @ 10:34 am Global warming is already here, says government study - While some effects of global warming can already be seen, the future holds problems like droughts, flooding, forest death and crop diseases, ...
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DETROIT INCINERATOR, ROUND 2 A great tool to fight global warming

Detroit Free Press, United States
It is on the basis of these gases that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming will continue for a substantial period into the future. Given that the Detroit energy-from-waste facility results in the release of less ...
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US Study Projects How 'Unequivocal Warming' Will Change Americans ...

New York Times, United States
By LAUREN MORELLO, ClimateWire Climate change is already reshaping the United States, according to a new federal report that predicts global warming could have serious consequences for how Americans live and work. A blog about energy, the environment ...
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Climate change will have "severe" impact on Asia-UN

guardian.co.uk, UK
By Manolo Serapio Jr. MANILA, June 17 (Reuters) - Climate change impacts such as lower crop production will have severe effects on Asia and a broader climate pact being negotiated this year is crucial to minimising the effects, a UN official said on ...
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NOAA: Global warming already affecting Midwest

Minnesota Public Radio, MN
A report from the federal government says the Midwest is already feeling the effects of global warming. The report, from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, documents changes that have already taken place, and says the Midwest ...
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New report stresses immediacy of global warming

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Other scientists involved in the study, including Commerce Under Secretary Jane Lubchenco, said they hope that the report's focus on the immediate repercussions of global warming - rather than just effects that might not be felt for decades - will ...
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Fundraising for polar bear's new home

stv.tv, UK
Once built it will be the largest polar bear enclosure in Europe. The four-acre enclosure will have a large pool and will provide Mercedes with a natural tundra environment in a climate that is ideal for a polar bear. Mercedes, the only polar bear in a ...
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Climate Change Report Shows Things Going From Bad to Worse

TIME
Southern Florida and southern Texas could see more than 160 days a year above 90 degrees F. Polar Thaw. Climate change is being felt first in the Arctic regions, which explains why Alaska is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the country, ...
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Climate change: Here now and intensifying

United Press International
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 16 (UPI) -- US scientists say climate change in the form of regional drought, higher temperatures and heavy rainfall is now common in many parts of the nation. The scientists representing 13 US government agencies, ...
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A lost opportunity: Global climate change impacts in the United States

Examiner.com
They predict that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be 'gone' by the middle of this century, but don't mention that their numbers are actually increasing, nor that polar bears successfully survived previous epochs where no ice existed in the ...
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Scientists: Global warming is real, and it is only getting worse

Seattle Times, United States
The report, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States," covers much of the same ground as previous analyses from US and United Nations science panels. It finds that greenhouse-gas emissions are "primarily" responsible for global warming and ...
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The opportunity cost of global warming

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Of all the criticisms of global warmng 'skeptics' (in quotes because very few of them are skeptical of global warming per se, but are just skeptical that the world is ending because of it), only one seems serious to me. I saw it first regarding Bjorn ...
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Climate change will displace 200 million people by 2050

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"While human migration and displacement is usually the result of multiple factors, the influence of climate change in people's decision to give up their livelihood and leave their homes is growing", said Dr. Charles Ehrhart, CARE's climate change ...
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The Economic Impact of Climate Change

New York Times, United States
By Catherine Rampell As it gears up for a battle over cap-and-trade, the Obama administration is painting a dire picture of the potential effects of global climate change on the American economy. The comprehensive report that the administration ...
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Slowing winds maybe caused by global warming

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Scientists are saying that global warming, something that wind power is supposed to be helping, maybe the cause. The report might not be as big a shock to wind farming, because the study also shows that wind speeds in certain parts of the country are ...
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US Government Scientists Call For Urgent Action on Global Warming

Voice of America
By Kate Woodsome Several top US government climate change scientists released a new report on Tuesday warning that the affects of global warming will become more severe unless the Obama administration takes action quickly. For years, scientists have ...
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Global warming study: US has already started changing

Boston Globe, United States
WASHINGTON -- A new government study of global warming confirms that climate change caused by carbon dioxide is already having a "visible impact" on the United States, and severe problems are on the way -- including longer droughts, more floods and an ...
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Commentary: Climate-change legislation must recognize farmers' role

California Farm Bureau, CA
By Bob Stallman American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman testified before the House Agriculture Committee last week, regarding climate change legislation being considered by Congress. Excerpts: Agriculture and forestry have a very ...
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White House global warming report: Not much new except for its ...

Dallas Morning News, TX
How much so depends on whether anthropogenic (people-made) greenhouse gas emissions come under control a little, a lot, or not at all. Texas is in the climatological and economic crosshairs in any climate change scenario. Maps of projected climate ...
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US climate report details energy, agriculture harm

Reuters India, India
"Human induced climate change is a reality, not only in remote polar regions (and) in small tropical islands, but every place around the country -- in our own backyards." The House climate bill aims to reduce carbon emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 83 ...
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Highlights from climate change report

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De-salinization of the oceans-remember that? was supposedly caused by melting polar ice caps. Oops. turned out to be cyclical. Twnety degrees-that's right, twenty-belw normal forthemonth of June in the northeast. Turns out to be sunspot related-as in, ...
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Global warming affecting every corner of the US, report says

Christian Science Monitor
No corner of the US has been untouched by global warming. And the effects are expected to tighten their grip over the course of this century, according to a new report from the federal Global Change Research Program released Tuesday.
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White House: Climate change damage happening now

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House. Global warming has ...
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UN warns of 'megadisasters' linked to climate change

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GENEVA (AFP) - The United Nations on Tuesday raised the prospect of "megadisasters" affecting millions of people in some of the world's biggest cities unless more is done to heed the threat of climate change. "We are going to see more disasters and ...
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World disaster toll faces new threat from global warning: Red Cross

AFP
It cautioned that only piecemeal progress had been made on prevention, early warning and mitigation measures to cope with floods, drought, storms and earthquakes, despite the growing risk of extreme weather with global warming.
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Study Maps Best Spots for Harnessing High-Altitude Winds

New York Times, United States
Their research also studied the high-altitude wind profiles above the five largest cities in the world and found New York, Tokyo and Seoul to have significant potential because of their position below polar jet streams. Jet streams are meandering ...
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Report: Climate Change Already Affecting US

Washington Post, United States
By David A. Fahrenthold Man-made climate change is already lifting temperatures, increasing rainfall, and raising sea levels around the United States -- and its effects are on track to get much worse in the coming century, according to a report ...
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Investors Call On SEC to Enforce Climate Change Disclosures

Environmental Leader, CO
The investor community is making another attempt to push the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to improve disclosure of climate change risks. Members of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) and other leading global investors sent a ...
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Honeywell Helps Process Manufacturers Improve Energy Efficiency ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
PHOENIX, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced Energy Management Solutions, a customizable portfolio of new and existing hardware, software and services to help improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) ...
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'Global Warming

American Daily, OH
Polar ice caps are melting and making the sea level rise. FACT: No sign of sea level rise have been shown by monitoring in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Earth's climate is variable and while it may get colder in one part of the earth, ...
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Obama targets US public with call for climate action

guardian.co.uk, UK
... and the extinction of Alaska's wild polar bears in the next 75 years. For many Americans, the report released today, entitled Global climate change impacts in the United States provides the most tangible evidence of the economic costs of climate ...
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Government Study Warns of Climate Change Effects

New York Times, United States
"What we would want to have people take away is that climate change is happening now, and it's actually beginning to affect our lives," said Thomas R. Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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Big Oil: We've Invested Billions To Fight Global Warming!

The Business Insider, NY
The oil-and-gas industry would like you to know that it has poured more money into reducing greenhouse gases than any other industry. Between 2000 and 2008, private industry and the federal government invested $132.9 billion in greenhouse-gas reducing ...
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Asia set to become biggest climate change driver

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Asia's share of global greenhouse gas emissions could rise to more than 40 percent by 2030, making it the world's main driver of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. The most populous continent with the fastest-growing ...
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Aussie senator unsure humans cause climate change

WKRG-TV, AL
Steve Fielding is one of two independents in the Senate the government needs next week to pass its blueprint to curb Australia's carbon dioxide emissions, one of the greenhouse gasses blamed for dangerous climate change.
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Herbert on climate change: Science still has some convincing to do

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
By Judy Fahys Park City �� There was Energy Secretary Steven Chu bearing the grim news: Climate change -- from shrinking ice caps and swelling sea levels to fire-prone forests and a drought-plagued West -- is more ominous than previously projected.
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Climate Change Is Behind Many Preventable Deaths

Wall Street Journal
Regarding your editorial " 'Worse Than Fiction' "(June 6) about our recent publication, "Human Impact Report: Climate Change -- The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis": Unfortunately, this issue of climate change is not going away, however much we all wish it ...
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Depictions Of Global Warming Are Terrifying Our Children

The Business Insider, NY
[Energy Source] Stop using excessive fear mongering when talking about global warming. [Guardian] Tesla's official releases never call Elon Musk a founder. [Greentech Media] Honda's hybrid, the Insight, may fall short of sales targets by 33%.
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Fielding unconvinced after climate change lesson

ABC Online, Australia
The Family First Senator Steve Fielding, whose vote the Government is courting for its emissions trading scheme, spent more than two hours with Australia's chief scientist Penny Sackett and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong yesterday.
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