Climate change may cost California billions

Reuters
By Peter Henderson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Climate change may cost California tens of billions of dollars annually in coming years as sea levels rise and hot days cause people to turn up the air conditioning, a draft report from the state said on ...
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US, China agree to talks on energy, environment, and climate change

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Climate change activists joined the unruly mob in London ahead of what will probably be a more active protest day tomorrow during the actual G-20 meeting set for Thursday. Amongst the chaos and finger pointing, the US was able to show its most recent ...
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2 global-warming commission bills die in Arkansas House committee

KFSM, AR
By AP LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A pair of bills that were the highlight of the Arkansas Global Warming Commission's legislative package have failed to advance from a House committee. The House Insurance and Commerce Committee voted down a bill Wednesday ...
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Let the NAIC Global Warming Follies Begin!

Insurance Networking News, NY
"Climate change will have huge impacts on the insurance industry and we need better information on how insurers are responding to the challenge," says Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario, who chairs the NAIC Climate Change and Global Warming ...
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House climate bill would hand EPA a heavy workload

New York Times, United States
The draft (pdf) directs EPA to implement several new programs aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting transportation efficiency -- this for an agency trying to revisit Bush-era regulations returned for review by federal courts and set ...
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Scientists worldwide admit global warming is a hoax

Christian Science Monitor, MA
... Committee rescinded the Peace Prize it awarded in 2007 to former US vice president Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, amid overwhelming evidence that global warming is an elaborate hoax cooked up by Mr. Gore.
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EU:US Climate Plan Will Facilitate Global Deal In Copenhagen

Wall Street Journal
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--A US plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions is "very encouraging" and will facilitate a global deal on fighting climate change later this year, European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said Wednesday.
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Timetable Of Disruption: The Summit Protests

Sky News, UK
The environmental activists say the race against climate catastrophe is being lost. They are asking supporters to bring their own smaller blocks of ice and to dress in white. The protest aims to highlight the fact that polar ice is melting much faster ...
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House bill shifts focus to climate change adaptation

New York Times, United States
But for many environmental and sustainability groups, what is notable is the bill's focus on helping communities and ecosystems deal with climate change that is unavoidable, based on the amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.
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Changing course EPA policy shifts under Obama are a welcome break ...

Houston Chronicle, United States
The coalition of states then filed suit, and in 2007 the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the EPA had the authority to decide whether greenhouse gas emissions qualified as pollution under the Clean Air Act. Bush EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson refused to ...
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Analysis: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy.
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In The Dark About Energy And Global Warming

Post Chronicle
Think about it: Liberal foolishness, like the farcical global warming crisis, which is really a product of Al Gore's mid-life crisis and Tipper's hot flashes, simply cannot survive the light of day. Sober thought and intelligent debate are possible ...
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President Obama serious about climate change

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President Obamas bold stance on climate change is about saving us. Without a sustainable Earth, our future and the future of our children and grandchildren is threatened by the effects of climate change: drought, floods, fires, and sea level rise will ...
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New greenhouse gases targeted by UN talks

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The synthetic compounds are potent greenhouse gases that could, if produced in large quantities, contribute significantly to global warming, scientists warn. "In terms of the impact these new gases will have over the next decade, it is not that ...
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Highlights of draft bill to curb global warming

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_ Sets increasingly tighter limits on greenhouse gas emissions from electric utilities, oil companies and large industrial sources. They would have to reduce global warming gases by 3 percent below 2005 levels in 2012, 20 percent in 2020, 42 percent in ...
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College Students Heed Warning on Climate Change, Engage in ...

Huffington Post, NY
Take a look at this map to see where you stand: America's Greenest Campus now gives the campus communities, the tools and knowledge to reduce their energy use, save money and reverse climate change, all in a way that's easy, fun and effective.
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Public Comments Urge Halt to Arctic Ocean Petro-Development

Environment News Service
"Polar bears, walruses and whales are already struggling to survive in the face of global warming. Native communities that rely on subsistence for survival are already challenged by impacts from a warming Arctic. An oil spill could tip the balance ...
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The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel, NJ
With this new energy demand, we also foresee an increase in greenhouse-gas emissions associated with energy use. Globally, the Outlook for Energy expects energy-related carbon-dioxide emissions to rise by an average of one percent per year through the ...
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Obama Administration Moves Ahead On Climate Change

The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel, NJ
Henry Waxman (D-CA), for example, chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee and plans to pass a climate change bill out of his committee by Memorial Day. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has stated his intent to begin debating a ...
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Democrats unveil global warming bill

Boston Globe, United States
Environmentalists are urging Congress to adopt a global warming policy in advance of international climate talks in Copenhagen scheduled for December, where leaders have agreed to update the Kyoto Protocol, which the Bush administration refused to sign ...
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Climate change experts call on G20 members to commit to action

guardian.co.uk, UK
The move comes amid fears amongst some British government officials that the G20 summit is in danger of missing a unique opportunity to prevent the world from being locked into irreversible and catastrophic climate change.
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Global warming could melt winter sport industry: report

CBC.ca, Canada
Global warming could cripple Canada's winter sports industry, according to a report published by the David Suzuki Foundation. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) Global warming could cripple winter sports and winter tourism in Canada, according to a ...
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New Breakthrough In Global Warming Plant Production

Science Daily (press release)
30, 2009) - Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford have made a discovery about plant growth which could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases. Dr Kerry Franklin, from the University of ...
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Obama gives best clean energy and global warming solutions job to ...

Grist Magazine, WA
Of the 12 to 14 most plausible wedges the world needs to stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm -- the full global warming solution -- EERE is the principal federal agency for working with businesses to develop and deploy the technology for 11 of them! ...
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Mayor Menino, former VP Al Gore trumpet greenhouse gas reduction

Metro.us, NY
Former Vice President Al Gore joined Boston Mayor Thomas Menino yesterday at the Latin School to announce $6.5 million in federal funding for "Renew Boston" which plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions throughout Boston. boston.
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House Democrats Plan to Introduce Greenhouse-Gas Bill

Washington Post, United States
By Juliet Eilperin Key House Democrats will unveil legislation Tuesday that aims to cut the nation's greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, according to sources familiar with the bill who asked not to be identified.
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Alstom and Dow Collaborate to Combat Climate Change

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Alstom, a world leader in power generation, and The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), a global gas treating industry leader, announce the design and construction of a pilot plant to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue gas of a coal-fired boiler ...
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Pro-Con | Does climate change play a role in the Red River flooding?

Kansas City Star, MO
It's interesting that the same people who think that a climate change event occurring on the same day as it snows somewhere ought to dominate the press coverage never seem to think it might be worth investigating the climate change angle to, say, ...
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Ukraine will get $560 m from sale of greenhouse gas quotas to Japan

Onet.pl, Poland
Ukraine will receive UAH 4.5 billion, or $560 million in the US dollar equivalent, from the sale of greenhouse gas emissions quotas to Japan, Ukrainian Prime-Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a press conference on Saturday on her visit to Japan.
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How much greenhouse gas are you producing?

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Rather than focus on flatulence, the United States Environmental Protection Agency provides a Household Emissions Calculator that examines your use of greenhouse gas producing activities such as heating your home or driving your car.
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NASA Flies to Greenland to Extend Polar Science

Space Ref (press release)
"It's research like this on sea ice and the Greenland ice sheet that we use to understand how the polar regions are connected to global climate change and discover what changes are going on in atmospheric and ocean circulations," said Tom Wagner, ...
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2010 Games officials eye global warming costs

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The Suzuki Foundation, which is working with VANOC, released its own report on Sunday warning that global warming is a threat to traditional winter Olympic sports in Canada as shorter winters leading to less ice and snow. (Reporting by Allan Dowd; ...
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Mel Martinez criticizes Obama's greenhouse gas and health care plans

Tampabay.com, FL
His first targets: a plan that would penalize polluters who exceed permitted greenhouse gas emissions, and the president's health care plan. Speaking at the Tampa Port Authority today, Martinez said the cap-and-trade plan, expected to raise ...
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Latest Cola Wars Skirmish: Battle for the Greenest Vending Machines

Fast Company
BY Ariel Schwartz 58 minutes ago Vending machine purchases often elicit feelings of guilt about the sugar and fat contents of soda and candy, but rarely about the greenhouse gas emissions of the machine itself. Soda vendors know, though, ...
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Greenpeace: Forests don't belong in carbon market

BusinessWeek
By VANESSA GERA Environmental group Greenpeace on Monday criticized plans by some countries to tackle global warming by letting polluting industries in wealthy nations offset carbon emissions by replanting tropical forests. Greenpeace said that the ...
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UN’s Global Climate Change Plan Would Cause Economic Earthquake

Heritage.org, DC
While an earthquake shifts the ground beneath our feet, the United Nation's climate change proposal would shift trillions of dollars in wealth transfers and entail " job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, ...
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earthtalk: What Are the Leading Proposed Technological Fixes to ...

MidwestBusiness.com, IL
Dear earthtalk: What are some of the leading proposed technological fixes for staving off global warming? How feasible are they? ~ James Harris; Columbus, Ohio earthtalk response: While most of the world fixates on how to reduce the amount of carbon ...
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Follow the lead of sciences: Don’t play loose with facts

Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA
There'sa bigger issue: It's misleading to draw parallels between "global cooling" concerns articulated in the 1970s and global warming concerns today. In the 1970s, climate research was a relatively young field and scientific understanding of ...
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Global-warming skeptics discover that plants like carbon dioxide

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"I just watched a movie on Global Warming and it said CO2 is very good for plants. I didn't know they used it greenhouses to benefit plants. Experts in the movie stated that plants can thrive on less water in a high CO2 environment.
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Obama's phrasing on global warming gets warm reception in Alabama

al.com, AL
WASHINGTON - It was just two little words in President Barack Obama's primetime news conference last week, but they carried great significance in Alabama, where there is fear that his global warming agenda will do more harm than good in the South.
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EPA proposes national Greenhouse Gas emissions inventory reporting ...

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EPA finally proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Rules yesterday after a two year delay from the Bush Administration, ordered by the Supreme Court. The rules don't go far enough, only capturing a few major sources of ghgs and CO2 equivalent ...
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Flatulent cows could be curtailed by fish oils

CNN
Lowering methane emissions is important for the environment, as the gas given off by farm animals is a major contributor to greenhouse gas levels. More than a third of all methane emissions, around 900 billion tonnes every year, are produced by ...
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Factbox: Greenhouse Gas Goals Proposed At UN Climate Talks

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by Staff Following are proposals for greenhouse gas targets to be considered at UN talks on a new climate treaty in Bonn, Germany, from March 29-April 8. The talks are the first this year in a two-year push to agree a new UN climate treaty in ...
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A dark hour for global warming

Times of India, India
But now, people have shown great understanding about the threat that global warming poses." Saurav Jindal, an executive with a multinational company, said, "From early Saturday morning, I started receiving smses asking me to observe Earth Hour.
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readers' comments

New York Times, United States
Americans are too lazy and spoiled to worry about climate change; others in counties like Mexico, where I'm visiting, are too poor to notice. And leaders everywhere pander to the public mindset. Mr. Friedman did not mention the recent Times story about ...
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Ample evidence Florida's feeling effects of climate change

Palm Beach Post,  United States
The last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that tropical cyclones (which we call hurricanes) are increasing in intensity in some ocean basins, especially in the North Atlantic basin where hurricanes form, because of warming ...
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Transcorp Hilton Joins Climate Change Initiative

THISDAY, Nigeria
Initiated in Australia in 2007, WWF Earth Hour is a global campaign created to underscore the connection between energy usage and climate change, with the aim to reach out to more than one billion people, including individuals, businesses and ...
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Obama praised for climate change policy

United Press International
BRUSSELS, March 28 (UPI) -- US President Barack Obama has drawn praise from his European counterparts for his commitment to fight global climate change. Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursik, whose country holds the European Union's rotating ...
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EPA closer to global warming warning

Ynetnews, Israel
... under the Clean Air Act. Politicians and the public, business and industry will have to weigh in along the way, but for now a proposed finding by the EPA that global warming is a threat to public health and welfare is under White House review.
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IN THE MAIL: Budget must reflect global-warming concerns

Grand Forks Herald, ND
In just two months, President Barack Obama has set the nation in a new direction when it comes to transitioning to a clean energy economy and stopping global warming. Obama's proposed budget lays out a framework for action on these issues, ...
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