AT&T plans to spend $565 million on clean-burning cars

Bizjournals.com, NC
The alternative-fuel vehicles should provide a 39 percent improvement in fuel economy and a 29 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. AT&T will replace 7100 passenger cars in its fleet over the next 10 years. Initially, these vehicles will be ...
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Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say

guardian.co.uk, UK
The research, by some of Britain's leading experts on climate change, shows that even severe cuts in deforestation and carbon emissions will fail to save the jungle, which has become a powerful symbol of human impact on the planet.
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Senate budget leaders warn against using spending bill to move ...

New York Times, United States
By ALEX KAPLUN, ClimateWire The leaders of the Senate Budget Committee yesterday warned the Obama administration against pursuing the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation measure as a strategy for moving climate change legislation.
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Researchers warn that sea levels will rise much faster than expected

New York Times, United States
By JEAN-MARIE MACABREY, ClimateWire COPENHAGEN -- By the end of the century, sea levels may rise twice as much as was predicted two years ago in the fourth assessment report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Obama Will Intensify Climate Cooperation with United Nations

Environment News Service
WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2009 (ENS) - President Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today agreed on the potential for stepped up cooperation between the United Nations and the United States on climate change. During their talks, the two ...
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10 global warming policy recommendations for the Obama administration

Mother Nature Network, GA
By PlentyMag.com With near-consensus among scientists that catastrophic consequences of anthropogenic global warming are already on their way, yet little being done to avert it, it's time for the US to begin treating the climate crisis like the ...
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Is the US unable to deal with global warming?

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The head of the IPCC went on to say that domestic politics will prevent Obama from taking quick moves on global warming. The US will react only gradually he said. He was talking at a pre-conference in Copenhagen where the major climate change conflab ...
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Climate Urgency Stressed as 2000 Researchers Meet

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By Alex Morales March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Two thousand researchers called to Copenhagen this week to discuss the latest global-warming science will stress a growing urgency to tackle climate change, Danish Climate and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard ...
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Energy Roundup: Hydrogen-Powered Tractors, EPA's Big Plans, and More

BNET, Ca
[Source: EcoGeek, New Holland] EPA emissions proposal, leaked document shed light on administration's plans - Any uncertainty over the Obama administration's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions were quelled Tuesday with two reports - one ...
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Hub among 1000 cities to turn out lights for climate change

Boston Globe, United States
By Michele Richinick Lights on the famous Citgo sign, Zakim Bridge, Prudential Center, John Hancock Tower, and other local landmarks will "go dark" for one hour this month as Boston joins cities across the world in a climate-change campaign.
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Climate change is a certain threat

Canada.com, Canada
Why does the public often pay more attention to climate change deniers than climate scientists? Why do denial arguments that have been thoroughly debunked still show up regularly in the media? Some researchers from New York's Fordham University may ...
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Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Under Strain

Environmental Leader, CO
By agreeing to increase power plants' free allowances for carbon-dioxide emissions, New York Governor David Patterson has broken with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a pact signed last year by 10 Northeast states. From Maryland to Maine, ...
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Sea could rise 1m by 2100, say scientists

Irish Times, Ireland
CLIMATE CHANGE: SEA LEVELS are set to rise twice as much as previously expected - by as much as a metre or more before the end of this century, mainly due to accelerated melting of the polar ice caps, according to new scientific research.
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Chief of Climate Panel to Lead Yale Center

New York Times, United States
By Andrew C. Revkin Tanushree Punwani/Reuters Rajendra Pachauri celebrating word that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was a recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. The university said that Dr. Pachauri will work half-time at Yale.
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Termite Killer Contributes To Global Warming

KPBS, CA
He says the emissions each year are far lower than those of carbon dioxide, so the impact on global warming is smaller by comparison. The sulfuryl flouride replaced a chemical that was phased out because it was found to deplete the ozone layer...
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Stern Words for Global Warming Alarmists

Human Events, DC
For example, consider the media's different contortions when covering the positions of presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama on the matter of a "global warming" treaty. For example, last week the Obama administration proclaimed that expectations ...
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Climate change accelerates water hunt in US West

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"Climate change is bringing us higher highs and lower lows in terms of water supplies." Take Los Angeles, which had its driest year in 2006-2007, with 3 inches (7.6 cms) of rain. Only two years earlier, more than 37 inches (94 cms) fell, barely missing ...
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EPA Proposes National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Registry

Washington Post, United States
By Juliet Eilperin The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed establishing a nationwide system for reporting greenhouse gas emissions, a program that could serve as the basis for a federal cap on the buildup of carbon and other gases linked to ...
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US needs to do more on climate: EU official

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LONDON (Reuters) - The United States must make deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than proposed by President Barack Obama if the world is to stand a chance of avoiding devastating climate change, an EU official said. Jos Delbeke, the European ...
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Boston landmarks to go dark for climate campaign

Boston Globe, United States
The sponsor of the event, World Wildlife Fund, is asking individuals, businesses, governments, and organizations to turn off their lights for one hour to make a global statement of concern about climate change and to demonstrate commitment to finding ...
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US House panel seeks farm payoff in climate change

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While the lawmakers were upbeat, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation told reporters last week that climate-change legislation may hurt, rather than help, the farm sector. AFBF President Bob Stallman said emissions legislation could ...
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New Yale body will analyse climate change options: Pachauri

Hindu, India
Washington (IANS): Noted Indian climate change expert Rajendra K. Pachauri sees enormous potential in the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI) for providing objective analysis of mitigation options and their implications.
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George F. Will: Cool on Warming, Hot on Baseball

Town Hall, DC
He and his editors at The Washington Post were blasted with thousands of angry e-mails, most of which challenged Will's assertion that global sea ice levels have not been dramatically reduced by man-made global warming, as environmentalists claim, ...
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Panel calls for National Climate Service outside of NOAA

New York Times, United States
By LAUREN MORELLO, ClimateWire The federal government's best option to meet a burgeoning demand for "user-friendly" climate change information could be starting from scratch, suggests a much-anticipated report that will be released later today.
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Greenpeace protest lack of EU climate change funds

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BRUSSELS - Dozens of Greenpeace activists are protesting outside a meeting of EU finance ministers to demand more funding to help developing nations combat climate change. Police detained several protesters who tried to jump over a perimeter fence and ...
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Australia Affirms Carbon Emissions Target Amid Growth Concerns

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Draft legislation to introduce carbon trading aims to cut emissions by between five and 15 percent of 2000 levels by 2020, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said today. This would help Australia meet its goal of a 60 percent reduction by the middle of ...
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Prince in plea over climate change

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Tackling climate-change should have a higher priority on the world's agenda than fighting poverty, the Prince of Wales has said. Charles stressed doing nothing about the environmental threat posed to the planet by global warming would lead to serious ...
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New York Governor Could Rewrite Carbon Trading Rules

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Last August, New York approved the statewide regulations that enable its participation in the 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, established to control emissions of carbon dioxide, CO2, from power plants. For the first time anywhere in ...
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FACTBOX-The world's water and climate change

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March 10 (Reuters) - World water supplies may be severely stressed in coming decades because of global climate change linked to the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil. The US West is one of the places that has the most to lose with water ...
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For the birds? Report says global warming forcing shift in ...

Beckley Register-Herald, WV
"Common sense dictates that we act now to curb the causes and impacts of global warming to the extent we can, and shape our policies to better cope with the disruptions we cannot avoid." - Purple Finch, Pins Sisken and Boreal Chickadee have retreated ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE: CAP & Trade, Carbon Taxes

Helicopter Association International, VA
The Obama budget blueprint to Congress includes hundreds of billions in middle and low income tax credits through an economy wide climate change plan reflecting increasing pressure to combat global warming. The Obama budget blueprint to Congress ...
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The Latest (and Hardest) Tool for Battling Climate Change: Rocks

Discover Magazine, NY
Working with the US Geological Survey, scientists at Columbia University's Earth Institute found large areas along the east and west coasts of the US that are lined with rocks that may be able to absorb enough carbon dioxide to slow down climate change ...
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CNBC's Kernen: 'You Might Not Have Fixed Global Warming' After D-Day

Business Media Institute, VA
Taking aim at one such issue, interviewer Joe Kernen replied: "You might not have fixed global warming the day after - the day after D-Day, Warren ." "Absolutely," Buffett declared. He also told Kernen that the Republicans should provide general ...
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Barack Obama's stem cell and climate change science is superstition

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
In tandem, his embrace of the "man-made" climate change lobby shows that his supposedly enlightened policy is just a new superstition. Presumably, like the Prince of Wales, he believes we have just 100 months to go before climatic Armageddon.
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Walt Disney Co. vows to cut greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2012

Orlando Sentinel, FL
The Walt Disney Co. will seek to cut companywide greenhouse-gas emissions in half during the next four years, and reduce electricity consumption by 10 percent over the next five, as part of a series of environmental goals outlined today.
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EPA, DOE Award Lowe's 2008 ENERGY STAR Honors for Excellence in ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
Last year alone, with the help of ENERGY STAR, Americans saved $16 billion on their energy bills and reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 27 million vehicles. With fiscal year 2007 sales of $48.3 billion , Lowe's Companies, ...
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TECO Partnership Will Bring Solar Power To Customers

Tampa Tribune, FL
The facility is expected to produce enough power for more than 3400 homes and will help Tampa Electric meet Florida's goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "This cutting-edge project will be important in meeting current and future state ...
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Climate change forecasts are useless for policymaking

Enter Stage Right, Canada
Perhaps any link between climate change and carbon dioxide is not so strong or important. Consider the historical record. The tiny fraction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased through the twentieth century. And yet, during that time, ...
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Climate change: Acid oceans transform marine life, says study

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PARIS (AFP) - Ocean acidification driven by climate change is stripping away the protective shell of tiny yet vital organisms that absorb huge amounts of carbon pollution from the atmosphere, a new study has revealed. Since the start of the Industrial ...
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Tackling climate change, again

Minnesota Daily, MN
The Obama administration is negotiating a new version of the Kyoto Protocol, t he international pact that intended to guide global initiatives on combating climate change. The main difference in the new pact from the original is the absence of a free ...
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Climate change still on the radar: survey

ABC Online, Australia
A study says Australians still consider climate change a major concern and believe it should be dealt with alongside the country's other major concern, the global economic crisis. The Climate Institute commissioned an online survey of 1400 people to ...
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Warming Isn’ta Big Worry at Skeptics’ Meeting

New York Times, United States
The three-day International Conference on Climate Change - organized by the Heartland Institute, a nonprofit group seeking deregulation and unfettered markets - brings together political figures, conservative campaigners, scientists, ...
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Companies rethink coal plants

USA Today
President Obama and many members of Congress vow to cut US emissions of carbon dioxide, the major "greenhouse gas" warming the Earth. Coal-burning power plants are the USA's single largest source of carbon dioxide. ��� Thursday, Alliant Energy dropped ...
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Czech leader joins meeting of climate change deniers

guardian.co.uk, UK
Climate change is said to be threatening the future of species such as the polar bear. Photograph: Mathieu Belanger/Reuters It is billed as the largest ever gathering of climate change deniers, a convention that kicked off last night with a title ...
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Prince highlights global warming

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Highlighting the issue of global warming is a major theme of the tour and later this week the Prince will give a dire climate change warning to the world. The heir to the throne will tell business leaders in Brazil that nations have "less than 100 ...
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RP among most at risk from climate change

Business Mirror, Philippines
In the new climate- change vulnerability map released on Friday by the International Development Research Centre's Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), the Philippines was pinpointed as one of the areas most vulnerable to ...
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What was Scripps thinking in giving Al Gore an award?

Examiner.com
Gore, who has championed global warming as his pet cause, was presented the award at a dinner marking the 100th birthday of the late Roger Revelle, who headed the institution from 1950 to 1964 and was considered a pioneer in the field of oceanography.
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Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures

guardian.co.uk, UK
"The IPCC felt the whole dynamics of polar ice-sheet melting were too poorly understood," added Vaughan. "However, we are now getting a much better idea of what is going on in Greenland and Antarctica and can make much more accurate forecasts about ...
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Obama taking big political risk with budget

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
It is also a carefully woven matrix that tackles everything from global warming to health care with new spending and taxes. Pull out one piece, be it a quasi-tax on carbon or an end to charitable and mortgage interest deductions by the wealthy, ...
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Revenue Rumble: Following the Money in the Climate Change Debate

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
But for utility executives who will be directly affected by climate policy-even those who have been cheerleaders for tougher government action on climate change-the misgivings are beginning. Take James Rogers, the chief executive of Duke Energy.
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