Mar 13, 2008

EU to agree timetable for fighting climate change

Reuters UK, UK 
By Mark John BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders were set on Thursday to agree a timetable for action to combat climate change that will enable the ...
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Palace date for schoolgirl skier

The Press Association 
Following her meeting with the Duke at Buckingham Palace, Camilla will unveil a 6ft ice clock in Parliament Square, to highlight just how quickly the polar ...
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Financial crisis, climate change pose tough challenges for EU summit

Xinhua, China 
With financial stability, economic reforms and climate change high on the agenda, this year the summit opens at a time when difficulties in the ...
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Insurers ignore their own warnings

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
... from the generally conservative business pack and started making lots of noise about climate change and its potential to increase natural disasters.
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China's emissions seen rising faster than thought

Reuters UK, UK 
The release of the article comes as energy and environment ministers from the world's 20 major greenhouse gas emitting nations prepare to meet in Japan from ...
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Mixture of warnings about climate change, backing for airport ...

Guardian, UK 
Greenpeace head John Sauven accused Darling of "dropping the ball on climate change". There was further criticism from the WWF, the World Development ...
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The Global Warming Gorilla: Getting the Developing World Aboard

Wall Street Journal 
Even the OECD says developing countries have to cut emissions to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. The trick is how they can pay for it and still ...
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Economist Strikes Gold In Climate-Change Fight

Wall Street Journal 
The New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme and the Chicago Climate Exchange, for buyers who voluntarily want to greenhouse gases, also saw trading ...
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Wildfires creating more carbon gases

United Press International 
The study, which is not peer-reviewed, suggests decades of fire suppression has left forests so overcrowded they turn into a source of greenhouse gas ...
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Mar 12, 2008

Commitment to tackling climate change 'spin-deep'

Scotsman, United Kingdom 
Duncan McLaren, the chief executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: "This Budget reveals that the UK government's commitment to tackling climate ...
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Banks Ranked on Climate Change

National Post, Canada 
The Ethical Funds Company has released its scorecard for Canada's big banks on climate change, and it makes the point that some banks are doing ...
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UK Budget Not Green Enough, Environmentalists Say (Update1)

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United Nations scientists said last year that climate change will cause sea levels to rise, droughts and floods to occur more frequently and water and crops ...
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World `Squandered' Decade in Climate Debate, Top Scientist Says

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The current greenhouse gas-limiting treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, requires 37 nations to cut emissions by a combined 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.
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Global warming a 'crock'? Not so, says GM chief

CNET News.com, CA 
Remember how Robert Lutz, vice chairman and design guru at General Motors, a few weeks back called global warming a "crock of s---? ...
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Reps' Bill Targets Polluting Coal Plants

Houston Chronicle, United States 
But investment in coal power plants is waning in the face of potential federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. Many industry analysts warn of a ...
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Enviance Powers Driving Change™, Nation’s First Internet-Based ...

Business Wire (press release), CA 
"Driving Change represents a very proud extension of the Enviance System to mobile greenhouse gas, a very vexing problem. Having succeeded in leveraging the ...
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US Transport Systems Vulnerable to Climate Change

Environment News Service 
Though the impacts of climate change will vary by region, it is certain they will be widespread and costly in human and economic terms, and will require ...
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Modern Physics Is Critical To Global Warming Research

Science Daily (press release) 
Scientists think the lake, which straddles Nevada and Arizona, may already be getting less rain due to shifting weather patterns caused by a warming world.
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Valero CEO calls for climate change tax credit

Reuters UK, UK 
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A climate change tax credit is needed to provide incentives for refiners to cut carbon emissions, Valero Energy Corp's chief executive ...
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China tells developed world to go on climate change 'diet'

Economic Times, India 
BEIJING: The developed world should go on a climate change diet rather than lecture China over its rising greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese Foreign Minister ...
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GM CEO Wagoner Regrets Lutz’s Global-Warming Comments

Wall Street Journal 
GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner says he essentially regrets recent comments made by his product czar, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, regarding global warming.
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Mar 11, 2008

Studies: Climate Change Threatens US Roadways

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I don't think any state has formally incorporated climate change into its thinking," Paiwonsky says. "That needs to change." Revamping the transportation ...
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Climate change could snarl US transport: study

Reuters UK, UK 
Modern transportation that runs on fossil fuel has been singled out as a key cause of climate change but the study released on Tuesday by the National ...
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Oilsands backs carbon tax

Canada.com, Canada 
EDMONTON - Oil-industry leaders called Monday for a national consumer carbon tax to help pay to build massive new greenhouse gas storage systems.
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IPCC's 'evil twin' launches climate change sceptic's creed

Register, UK 
Issued last week at the close of the International Conference on Climate Change in New York, the Manhattan Declaration challenged the notion that a ...
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Political crisis looms in Arctic, report says

National Post, Canada 
Noting the "rapid melting of the polar ice caps," the report contends that "the increased accessibility of the enormous hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic ...
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Warming to climate change

Edmonton Sun,  Canada 
And he feels that until the causes and effects are fully understood, "any climate change initiative where humans think they can stop climate change is not ...
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Conservation Groups Sue Over Polar Bears

The Associated Press 
Some climate models have predicted the Arctic will be free of summer sea ice by 2030. A US Geological Survey study predicted polar bears in Alaska could be ...
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Global warming hype is hot air, retired prof says

Pueblo Chieftain, CO 
By GAYLE PEREZ The hype surrounding the issue of global warming is a bunch of hot air, a retired physics professor told members of Rotary Club 43 on Monday.
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Minorities the forgotten victims of climate change

Reuters South Africa, South Africa 
By Jeremy Lovell LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Minorities and indigenous people frequently bear the brunt of the ravages of climate change but also often ...
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Mar 10, 2008

EU leaders to endorse deeper greenhouse gas cuts

Reuters UK, UK 
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will call on the EU Commission to draw up a road map for deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a summit ...
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Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe

People's Weekly World 
by Sam Webb, 03/10/08 17:18 by John Wojcik, 03/09/08 18:58 by John Wojcik, 03/09/08 18:55 By Elizabeth Kolbert Greenhouse gases can be both a curse and a ...
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New Proposals To Fight Global Warming Would End Civilization, Kill ...

Prison Planet.com 
... affording sober gravitas to a Carnegie Institution report that calls for carbon emissions to be reduced to near zero in order to combat global warming, ...
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Of Oil, Global Warming

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Scientists believe the bear to be threatened because global warming has increasingly melted away its sea-ice habitat. A batch of new studies in scientific ...
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Experts deny link between floods and global warming

Guardian, UK 
"[It] fuelled speculation that flood risk is increasing due to global warming. Due to the inherent variability of the UK climate, any extreme hydrological ...
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Liberals refuse to defeat government over failure to act on ...

The Canadian Press, OTTAWA 
OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have refused to bring down the minority Conservative government over its failure to combat climate change.
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Province won't be rushed into reducing greenhouse gases: Stelmach

Edmonton Sun,  Canada 
The federal plan, according to reports, comes after discussing the issue at length with Alberta, which is the nation's largest greenhouse gas produced due ...
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EU governments warned of security risks by climate change: report

AFP 
... as the consequences of climate change are likely to be most pronounced in developing countries. The report also describes accelerated melting of polar ...
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Labor's War on Global Warming

The Nation., NY 
Figuring out how to respond to global warming has been difficult for organized labor. The issue can pit union against union and unions against ...
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Carbon capture to be a must for new coal plants

Reuters UK, UK 
"On the very same day Chancellor Alistair Darling spoke of the importance of the new Climate Change Committee and the challenge of meeting UK emissions ...
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Pupils' lesson in climate change

Sunderland Echo, UK 
Future generations have been quizzing environment chiefs on what action they are taking to tackle climate change. Schoolchildren from Framwellgate Moor ...
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Emissions target tightrope

The Canberra Times, Australia 
Professor Ross Garnaut's interim report, issued last month, suggested that setting hard and fast short-term greenhouse gas reduction targets may be ...
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Southern Baptist leaders shift position on climate change

CNN 
The resolution said "many scientists reject the idea of catastrophic human-induced global warming." On Monday, however, dozens of Southern Baptist leaders ...
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The media snowjob on global warming

National Post, Canada 
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column that was provocatively titled, "Forget global warming:Welcome to the New Ice Age." In it, I explained that, far from being ...
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It's time for provinces to follow BC on greenhouse gas emissions

Globe and Mail, Canada 
A task force report on carbon capture and storage lays out an action plan to break the link between energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Queen urges action on environment

The Press Association 
In her annual Commonwealth Day message, she will say that the impact of climate change is often worst for those countries who pollute the least.
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Mar 9, 2008

Mom-power fuels campaign to reduce global warming

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
EcoMoms, a Northern California-based group that aims to "leverage the power of mothers to help reduce global warming" believes mothers "can help create a ...
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Australia comes in from the cold on climate change

AFP 
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia will end years of chilly isolation on climate change when its ratification of the Kyoto Protocol comes into force Tuesday but ...
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Global warming effects tackled in state plan

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
THE State Government is ramping up its preparations for the effects of global warming by forming a new state-wide plan, which assumes some local communities ...
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McCain, Republicans, and "Global Warming"

Town Hall, DC 
Last fall, Gore joined Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to guide investments to combat global warming. Venture capital investments in ...
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