Aug 10, 2008

McCain's Climate Change Policy

Atlantic Online 
Substantial impacts from climate change are inevitable, and it's high time the federal gov't got serious about coordinating and funding local efforts to ...
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McCain: The New 'Captain Climate'?

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by John Carey McCain's global warming journey started back in 2000, when a strange apparition named "Captain Climate" began to turn up at McCain's campaign ...
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McCain Lays Out Global Warming Agenda

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"While Senator McCain deserves credit for his work on early global warming legislation in the Senate and for bringing attention to the need for urgent ...
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McCain Talks About Need To Combat Global Warming

KPTV.com, OR 
John McCain made his first visit to Oregon Monday to speak about global warming at a plant that builds the tools to harness wind energy.
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Polar bear lecture, May 28, at Canadian Museum of Nature ...

Ottawa Start (press release), Canada 
In her presentation, Saunders will share the life history of polar bears and her observations of the changing climate in the Arctic, where the extent of ...
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Climate change chief says optimistic

Reuters UK, UK 
By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - Adair Turner, the head of the new Climate Change Committee, sees some tough times ahead guiding the government towards ...
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New McCain Ad: He Cares About Global Warming, But Won't Increase ...

TPM, NY 
He did not say global warming. You have to pay close attention to the words that Republicans use, because they always try to play the weasel words game.
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The Early Word: McCain Addresses Climate Change

New York Times Blogs, NY 
By Ariel Alexovich One of the presidential candidates is off to the Pacific Northwest today to talk up a big campaign pledge to combat climate change - and ...
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Largest Global Study of Consumer Response to Climate Change Puts ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY 
Consumers are calling on brands to take responsibility for reducing the impact of climate change as governments fail to make progress on the critical issue, ...
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McCain Appeals to Democrats on Global Warming

Dakota Voice, SD 
Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country ...
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McCain urges free-market principles to reduce global warming

The Associated Press 
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and ...
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Now it's Congress' turn to follow Florida's energy lead

Tallahassee Democrat, FL 
Like Tallahassee's energy plan, America's Climate Security Act would implement a common sense cap-and-trade system to cut greenhouse gas pollution.
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McCain to pitch climate-change plan in Oregon

USA Today 
By David Jackson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON - John McCain heads to the Pacific Northwest today to propose a climate-change plan, addressing an issue integral to ...
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Johann Hari: Cameron a progressive? I don't think so

Independent, UK 
Let's start with the biggest issue of all: global warming. Cameron has performed a recent screeching turn-around. Prior to his election as Tory leader, ...
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Climate change key to future food crisis

Economic Times, India 
But the biggest risk to agriculture may well come from climate change. No one yet knows how climate change will affect agricultural production.
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G8 labour ministers discuss climate change, social issues in Japan

TopNews, India 
According to the Japanese hosts, it is hoped that the labour ministers will assist in achieving consensus on climate change at July's main summit.
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Govt to seek 'up to 80%' emissions cut by 2050

The Daily Yomiuri, Japan 
The European Union says major countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent to 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels.
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Will McCain Back Warming Bill?

Washington Post, United States 
Environmental activists expressed mixed reactions to the idea that McCain's was on the verge of embracing the Senate's latest attempt to curb global warming ...
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Tax system review to examine costs of climate change

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
The Government's chief climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, has also suggested that a GST-style package of personal income tax cuts could be used to offset ...
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Climate change will boost farm output

The Australian, Australia 
AUSTRALIAN agricultural output will double over the next 40 years, with climate change predicted to increase, rather than hinder, the level of production.
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Nats deny 'secret deal' over climate change bill

Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand 
The National Party has rejected claims it is cutting a secret deal with the Government over climate change legislation. Green's co-leader Jeanette ...
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McCain signals support for Senate climate change bill

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McCain indicated that he is on the verge of getting behind the Lieberman-Warner climate change legislation: "I'm pleased in negotiations and discussion with ...
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San Diego airport pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

San Jose Mercury News,  USA 
... installing solar panels on new buildings and paved areas. Brown said the agreement will help California meet its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
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Climate change could hit tropical wildlife hardest

Reuters UK, UK 
That doesn't mean polar bears and other wildlife in the polar regions won't feel the impact of climate change. They probably will, because that is where the ...
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Global cooling theories put scientists on guard

Reuters UK, UK 
By Gerard Wynn LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - A new study suggesting a possible lull in manmade global warming has raised fears of a reduced urgency to battle ...
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Wong's dose of shock therapy

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
But for the woman charged with transforming Australia from a leading greenhouse gas polluter into a leading clean energy producer, it was a reality check, ...
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Governor firm over global warming

The Press Association 
The rules are part of the state's wider effort to address global warming. California wants emissions to be cut by nearly one-third for all vehicles sold in ...
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Gas-tax holiday debate warns of fights to come

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Next month, the Senate will take up legislation that would regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and increase the price of electricity from fossil fuels.
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Bear Necessities

Newsweek 
The polar bear has been labeled the canary of the planet's coal mine. How closely is it really tied to the challenges of climate change?
Court Forces Government to Move on Polar Bear Status New York Times
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DOE awards $61M to coalition studying greenhouse gas storage

Chicago Tribune, United States 
The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership will conduct tests to find more ways to store carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in underground ...
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Calls for billions to be given to climate change

InTheNews.co.uk, UK 
Money received by the government from auctioning carbon emission permits should be used to tackle climate change, business and environment groups claim ...
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Evangelicals press to fight global warming

Dallas Morning News, TX 
WASHINGTON - When the Senate takes up legislation next month to confront global warming, environmental groups will have some fervent new allies: ...
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Climate Change Policy is Becoming a Shambles

Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand 
Then we had former climate change minister Pete Hodgson arguing that New Zealand would make money from it because of our forestry sinks: "Would you burn a ...
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Climate fix could deplete polar ozone

Science News 
Even in the worst case cited by Tilmes and her colleagues, polar residents would experience levels of ultraviolet radiation no higher than those routinely ...
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Birds make easy weather of climate change

Times Online, UK 
British great tits have proved themselves to be far more adaptable to climate change than their counterparts in the Netherlands.
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Apple a laggard in climate-change plans, report says

CNET News.com, CA 
It would do a lot to prevent climate change, it's the Prius of desktops. Apple's computers are far more efficient with power than your average computer.
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76-teraflop Supercomputer Installed For Critical Research On ...

Science Daily (press release) 
Scientists at NCAR and across the country will use the new system to accelerate research into climate change, including future patterns of precipitation and ...
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Big business slams climate change bill

Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand 
Legislation at the heart of the Government's climate change strategy is being savagely criticised by big companies, who say it will cost the economy ...
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US plan for greenhouse gas levels fails to impress

Euronews.net, France 
The Bush plan would halt a rise in US greenhouse gas emissions but not cut their level. "Today I'm announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of US ...
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Value of Greenhouse Gas Trading Doubles in 2007

Biloxi Sun Herald,  USA 
Natsource manages the Greenhouse Gas Credit Aggregation Pool ("GG-CAP") which has approximately US $800 million (euro 520 million) in committed capital.
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Climate change action belies fears

Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia 
AUSTRALIANS see climate change as the nation's biggest problem but appear unwilling to change their lives to reduce their large environmental footprint, ...
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Public Comment Period, Hearings Set For Greenhouse Gas Proposal

ReadMedia (Press Release), NY 
RGGI is an agreement by 10 Northeastern states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with participating states issuing their own regulations.
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Canada faces Kyoto probe over lack of greenhouse gas reporting

International Herald Tribune, France 
AP TORONTO: Canada's prime minister said Wednesday that Canada is in the process of setting up a reliable greenhouse gas emissions recording system, ...
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Antarctic modelling 'not working'

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
With Andrew Monaghan, formerly a researcher at Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center, and David Schneider from the National Center for Atmospheric ...
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Loaded for Bear

Mother Jones, CA 
Washington Dispatch: Any day now the polar bear could be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Conservative groups are already plotting their ...
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Great tit loves global warming

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Britain's great tits are making the most of the warming climate and defying gloomy predictions about extinctions, ...
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'£1.6bn must be spent on climate change'

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
By Paul Eccleston The government has been warned that it must spend all of a ��1.6bn windfall on new technology to combat climate change.
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Global Climate Models Both Agree And Disagree With Actual ...

Science Daily (press release) 
In their latest work, Bromwich, Andrew Monaghan, formerly a researcher at Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center, and David Schneider from the National ...
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UN to probe Canada over lack of greenhouse-gas reporting

CBC.ca, Canada 
The United Nations says it will investigate Canada for failing to meet a Kyoto Protocol deadline on greenhouse gas reporting and could bar it from an ...
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Arctic ice melt could see rise of "Grolar bear"

Economic Times, India 
... the hybrid of a polar bear and grizzly bear - dubbed the 'grolar bear', might rise in numbers. According to a report in The Sun , the effects of climate ...
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