Catlin Arctic Survey Uses Equivital Physiological Monitor

Cambridge Wireless (press release), UK
... working to replace the Kyoto Protocol agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen in December 2009. The team members will be wearing Hidalgo's Equivital��� physiological monitoring system throughout the polar expedition.
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Global warming could help the wetlands — for a little while

Daily Comet, LA
HOUMA - Scientists say rising levels of carbon dioxide are the cause of global warming and rising sea levels that could drown coastal communities like Terrebonne and Lafourche. But a new study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in ...
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EPA presses to regulate warming

Examiner.com
Just yesterday the Washington Post had an online article about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) trying to regulate global warming by limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, in what I will call "THE GREAT DEBATE of the 21st Century".
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Deforestation Prevention Vital To Curb Greenhouse Gases

RedOrbit, TX
"Unless we tackle the question of forests as a mitigation method for climate change, then we will really have lost the battle to keep greenhouse gas concentrations below levels that many people would consider to be dangerous.
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EPA chief in Aspen: Agency ‘is back on the job’

Aspen Times, CO
The EPA move, if adopted by the president, is viewed as an administrative tool to regulate greenhouse gas emissions until Congress takes action. "We're not looking, as some alarmists have indicated, to regulate every single Dunkin' Donut or every ...
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2-way plan eyed for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

MiamiHerald.com, FL
By HIROKO KONO AND TAKESHI KOSAKA TOKYO -- A double-track approach is emerging as an alternative way to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 following the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on ...
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US Congress told global warming is a myth

Beijing News, China
Monckton, who has long believed climate change is myth, is a member of a movement that has argued there is no statistically significant global warming. Saying green jobs are purely a euphemism for mass unemployment, he told Congress members that ...
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Michele Bachmann Seeks ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Opposition to Cap-and ...

New York Times, United States
By Kate Galbraith Associated Press "The science indicates that human activity is not the cause of all this global warming," Ms. Bachmann said. Michele Bachmann, a Republican Congresswoman from east-central Minnesota, has some fighting words for ...
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Global warming 37 pct to blame for droughts-scientist

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By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters) - Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade-long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States ...
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The Civil Heretic

New York Times, United States
These ideas attract derision similar to Dyson's essays on climate change, but he is an undeterred octogenarian futurist. "I don't think of myself predicting things," he says. "I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen.
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2009 Earth Hour Project Will Take Place On Saturday, March 28 At ...

Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News, OH
By Jennifer L. Fields Buffalo, NY - The Buffalo Zoo is encouraging its staff, as well as the Western New York Community, to join a global effort in support of encouraging world leaders to take action on climate change. Initiated by Polar Bears ...
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Hungry shrimp eat climate change experiment

New Scientist, UK
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research reported that the copepods were in turn eaten by larger crustaceans called amphipods, which serve as food for squid and fin whales. The grazing effect had not been seen in ...
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Rudd Welcomes Obama's Resolve to Address Global Warming

Environment News Service
"Both Australia and the United States have vast coal reserves, but we're also very interested in figuring out how do we reduce the greenhouse gases that are causing global warming." "If we can take some intelligent steps and we start to discuss how we ...
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Global warming giving nuclear new claim to clean

Asheville Citizen-Times, NC
Three decades later, fears of an atomic catastrophe have been largely supplanted by fears about global warming, easing nuclear energy into the same sentence as wind and solar power. Dogged by price spikes and an environmental assault on carbon dioxide ...
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West Nile may spread more easily due to climate change

USA Today
Climate change appears to promote the virus's transmission to humans. A new study links warmer weather and heavier rains with a growing number of outbreaks of the mosquito-borne viral infection in 17 states between 2001 and 2005.
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Climate campaign releases spoof pop single for Energy Wasting Day

Brand Republic, UK
They include the 'Polar bears, who cares?' t-shirt modelled in the video by girls pole-dancing around patio heaters. All proceeds will go to Together, which is run by independent charity The Climate Group...
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Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Scheme He Is Now Pushing ...

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One of those gases is carbon dioxide, the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas and the focus of the most far-reaching -- and contentious -- efforts to combat "climate change." On Monday, Obama's Environmental Protection Agency declared carbon dioxide a ...
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More on the Polar Bear’s Fate

New York Times, United States
By Andrew C. Revkin There's been a lot of discussion of the fate of the polar bear in a warming climate so I thought it worth adding a few more insights from scientists studying this remarkable animal's past and assessing its future.
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UN plans guide to fighting climate-change disasters

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Floods, mudslides, droughts, heatwaves or storms are often the main causes of destruction and human suffering tied to climate change, rather than the creeping rise in average temperatures blamed on a build-up of greenhouse gases.
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Fair and multilateral framework on climate change needed:India

Press Trust of India, India
Washington, Mar 25 (PTI) Taking up the leadership mantle of the third world countries, India today sought a fair and equitable multilateral framework on climate change, which would help nations across the globe to make an early transition to a carbon ...
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Obama calls Rudd a partner for 'years to come'

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Rudd, who some observers see as a political "soul mate" for Obama in a new generation of global leaders, meanwhile said it was good to have the United States "back on board" on world economics and global warming. "I think he's doing a terrific job, ...
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Greenhouse action on move in MD, DC

Baltimore Sun, United States
In Annapolis, the House Economic Matters Committee gave its blessing yesterday to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, which would commit Maryland to reducing climate-warming emissions 25 percent from 2006 levels by 2020.
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Response: The Czech president's climate change denial is irrelevant

guardian.co.uk, UK
Your leader column expressed widely held views towards climate change deniers, but made the mistake of believing that the extreme personal opinions of the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, are relevant to the official views of the Czech Republic or its ...
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Obama says budget, recovery 'inseparable'

Washington Times, DC
President Obama on Tuesday asked for broad new authority to take over financial institutions and pushed Congress to adopt his plans for fighting global warming and expanding health care. Associated Press Calling his ambitious budget "inseparable" from ...
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SF close to adopting Berkeley renewable power plan

Bizjournals.com, NC
At the conference, Newsom also talked about a program that will allow San Franciscans to view their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions in real time no matter where they go in the city. The program is called eco-map and it's being developed by San ...
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Lawmaker: Global warming plan won't be in budget

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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats won't advance President Obama's controversial global warming initiative under fast-track rules that could effectively cut Senate Republicans out of the debate, a top Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.
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Greenhouse gas program criticized

Gary Post Tribune, IN
By Gitte Laasby Post-Tribune staff writer MERRILLVILLE - A hot potato is baking on Capitol Hill: President Barack Obama wants to start a cap-and-trade program that would limit greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming. But critics, including Gov ...
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Gore to Revisit Climate Crisis in New Book

New York Times, United States
Since his last book did not single-handedly solve the world's environmental problems, Al Gore will return to the subject of global warming in a new book to be released by Rodale Inc., the publisher said in a news release. The book, "Our Choice," will ...
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Obama: Red River flooding is wakeup call to fight global warming

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
President Obama used the flooding in the Red River Valley to insist that society needs to take global warming seriously. In a White House interview with a handful of reporters, including Janell Cole of the Forum of Fargo, the president said the current ...
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World Seeks Aggressive Cuts In Greenhouse Gas Emissions

RedOrbit, TX
A new guide distributed to negotiators of a new United Nations climate treaty says there is broad support among governments for stringent goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. However, opinion is divided on where such reductions should be ...
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Climate lobbyists look far beyond cap and trade

New York Times, United States
For global warming-centric organizations, the proliferation of provisions is a welcome opportunity to move an agenda in increments, even if only a few of the proposed bills gain traction. Climate Communities, for example, pushed for measures that made ...
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Climate Change Could Harm Penguins and Polar Bears

U.S. News & World Report, DC
These are the consequences of climate change, scientists say. In the Antarctic, climate change endangers the future of Adelie penguins and other breeds of penguins. Polar bears and penguins may live poles apart, with the great white mammals ruling the ...
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Climate deal failure could cause tariff war: Garnaut

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
THE head of the Federal Government's climate change review, Ross Garnaut, warned that Australia was likely to face a world tariff war driven by Europe and the US over greenhouse gas emissions unless there was a strong global agreement to prevent ...
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Scientists: The trend is less ice on Great Lakes

Chicago Tribune, United States
Scientists who have studied the lakes at the lab in Ann Arbor, Mich., say the waters are also influenced by natural cycles that counter global warming. Researcher Jia Wang says natural variability is at least as large a factor as global warming.
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EPA Sends CO2 Endangerment Finding Proposal To White House

EasyBourse.com, France
The endangerment finding - which EPA officials and internal documents say proposes that the greenhouse gas is a danger to both public health and welfare - will trigger emission regulations across the economy under the Clean Air Act. While President ...
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Democrats to shelve fast-track process on climate bill, for now

New York Times, United States
about 10 coal-state Democrats and United Mine Workers Association President Cecil Roberts to discuss coal, climate change and the budget. Reconciliation came up in the meeting. "But that didn't take more than 10 seconds," Rahall said.
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Energy Secretary Serves Under a Microscope

New York Times, United States
President Obama has assigned Dr. Chu to carry out some of his central priorities: wean America from dependence on fossil fuels, rebuild the nation's electrical grid and address the challenges of climate change. The science part of his job is the most ...
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Global Warming: Gone, but we will be taxed anyway

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AP Photo/Charles J. Hanley Global Warming just isn't happening anymore. The warming trend stopped in 2000, but that hasn't stopped Al Gore and the 52 Scientists from the IPCC (United Nations) to continue to alarm the public.
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City dwellers 'harm climate less'

New Scientist, UK
City lights may burn bright, but overall the greenhouse gas emissions of large cities are far below those of rural areas, a new report finds. David Dodman at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, who led the study, ...
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Prince Charles climate change 'delight'

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Britain's Prince Charles is proud people have started listening to his views on climate change. The 60-year-old royal - who has continually warned of the danger of climate change, recently claiming the world has less than 100 months to save itself ...
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Texas is taking a greater interest in global warming

Dallas Morning News, TX
By RANDY LEE LOFTIS / The Dallas Morning News Global warming has been a nearly forbidden phrase in the Texas Capitol. But that might be changing. Despite leading the nation in climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions - and facing the prospect of a ...
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Climate change needs our focus

Charlottesville Daily Progress, VA
Unfortunately, by devoting his letter to supposed errors on a single graph in a presentation by Al Gore, the writer falls victim to his own critique, ignoring a large and growing body of facts on climate change and its causes. More than 2000 climate ...
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That First Step is a Doozy

AMERICAN.COM, DC
By Kenneth P. Green Sunday, March 22, 2009 The Obama administration is finding that greenhouse gas control is hard in practice, especially the very first step. The Obama administration's headlong rush to create a trading market for greenhouse gas ...
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Polar bears could be extinct by end of century

Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom
... Southern Ocean to breed and nest and are highly susceptible to climate change." The report picked out 10 key species and examined how they will be affected - including polar bears, Bengal tigers, reef-building corals, kangaroos, and albatrosses.
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Hunters add to woes of dwindling polar bears

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
There are few animals more symbolic of the perils of climate change than the polar bear, which faces destruction as the Arctic sea ice melts away - the bears starve or drown because the distances they have to swim to find prey become too vast.
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Super funds in dark over costs of climate change

The Age, Australia
SUPER funds want to review their investments in light of climate change, but are in the dark when it comes to evaluation methods. A survey of 31 funds, each managing about $1 billion, found that 85 per cent planned to improve their ability to assess ...
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Survey: NZ cooler on global warming

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
But sceptics say the link between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming has not been proven. In 2007, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a top-level UN gathering the time had passed for doubting whether climate change was happening as a result ...
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The Post's Will-ful denial, day 34

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Will also wrote that "according to the UN World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade." The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is one of many respected scientific institutions that support ...
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Earth Hour: Power down for 60 minutes on March 28

Seattle Times, United States
For Earth Hour, citizens of the world will turn off their power for an hour at 8:30 pm on March 28, in a move against global warming. On March 28, if the lights go off in your Cape Town hotel or, close to home, a Seattle hotel restaurant switches to ...
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Opposition to power option waning globally

StandardNet, Utah
Swedes have made their peace with nuclear plants, not only because memories have faded and safety records improved after 30 years, but because reactors are seen as one of the few options available to nations wanting to rapidly slash greenhouse gas ...
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