Clinton: Dealing with climate change like trying to lose weight

CNN Political Ticker
In a speech on Earth Day, Secretary of State Clinton comparing fighting global climate change to trying to lose weight. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unusual comparison Wednesday during remarks that celebrated Earth Day.
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Global warming fight requires many tactics

Detroit Free Press, United States
James Clift is policy director for the Michigan Environmental Council. He is one of several guest bloggers this week who are discussing what remedies, if any, are needed to combat global warming. See the full list of blog posts here...
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Bill Clinton: Business is the key to climate change

CNET News, CA
by Martin lamonica LAGUNA NIGUEL, California--Absent having a vote in Congress, the best way for people to tackle climate change is to make clean energy cheap, said Bill Clinton at a green business conference here on Wednesday.
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USC Teach-In Focus on Climate Change

Free Times, SC
That's partially why he was on hand, along with Columbia Mayor Bob Coble and a panel of climate change experts, at the Teach-In on Climate Change on April 17 at usc's Green Quad to speak in front of a group of students, faculty and guests.
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Budget: Green tinge or blue rinse?

BBC News, UK
So now, the country has a "legally binding" target: to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 34% with respect to 1990 levels by 2020. Mr Darling's adoption of the figure proposed in December by the Committee on Climate Change, the government's advisory body, ...
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Report identifies homes, vehicles as Louisville's biggest ...

U Of L News, KY
If you think that businesses and industry are the biggest greenhouse gas producers in Louisville Metro, think again. A report released April 22 by Louisville's Partnership for a Green City, identifies homes and vehicles as the worst offenders, ...
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EPA: Greenhouse gases are pollutants, threat to public health

Earth & Sky, TX
In mid-April 2009, the US Environmental Protection Agency - EPA - declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases associated with climate change are pollutants. Dan Greenbaum: What they've done here is drawn this connection between CO2 and ...
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Syracuse working to cut greenhouse gases

News 10 Now, NY
SYRACUSE, NY -- The City of Syracuse is moving forward with plans to sign onto a state program calling for new initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Mayor Matt Driscoll says the city has already taken significant steps to reduce energy usage ...
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Climate change serious test for humankind: Obama

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NEWTON, Iowa (AFP) - President Barack Obama warned Wednesday that climate change was a serious test for humankind, and told Americans small changes in their daily lives could make a big difference to the environment. Obama, who was later due to tour a ...
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Political Wisdom: Pessimism Prevails on Climate Change

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Sara Murray It's Earth Day so the experts in Politico's Arena are debating whether significant climate change legislation could be possible by next year. The Center for Economic and Policy Research's Dean Baker isn't optimistic.
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Polar Ice Caps Growing

Heart 103 Cambridge, UK
... allows them to make better predictions about what the weather will be like in the future: "Understanding how polar sea ice responds to global change is really important if we are to make accurate predictions about the Earth's future climate change.
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Green Week: Science of Climate Change

Washington Post, United States
It's easy on a warm day in the middle of winter to blame "global warming," but often that's not the case. So what is the latest evidence that shows our climate is changing? Join Andrew Freedman, who writes about climate change for the Capital Weather ...
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Budget: 'Carbon budget' targets 34% emissions cut

Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom
Claiming Britain's economic recovery must be "sustainable and protect the environment", Mr Darling announced ��1 billion in funding to tackle climate change. In the Budget he committed millions of pounds of extra funding and financial incentives for ...
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Climate change threatens Ganges, Niger and other mighty rivers

guardian.co.uk, UK
Graphic: Journal of Climate, modified by UCAR Some of the mightiest rivers on the planet, including the Ganges, the Niger, and the Yellow river in China, are drying up because of climate change, a study of global waterways warned yesterday.
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US in spotlight at talks on global warming fight

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By Massimiliano Di Giorgio and Daniel Flynn SYRACUSE, Italy, April 22 (Reuters) - A new US commitment to tackle global warming as outlined by President Barack Obama will be the focus of attention on Wednesday at meeting of international environment ...
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Ventura teen delivers global warming message with zeal

Ventura County Star, CA
He's morphed from a quiet teen interested in rallying local students to help stop global warming, into an impassioned crusader whose presentations are in demand at scientific conferences around the country. He's gone from being a kid deemed too young ...
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Breathe your greenhouse gases while you still can

UN Dispatch
As it is, he thinks that Environmental Protection Agency is trying to control the air that you breathe (carbon dioxide, is, after all, a greenhouse gas!). I think that answers that question. With such scaremongering a transparent ruse, Goldberg next ...
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Obama Gambles on Americans' Affection for Green

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
On Tuesday, the EPA said a House proposal to cut US greenhouse gas emissions would have a relatively small impact on consumers - with the important caveat that most of the money raised under a carbon cap and trade system is returned to consumers.
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umaine Climate Change Lecture to Focus on Ice Sheets and Sea Level ...

The University of Maine, ME
Hamilton's talk is the final installment of the season in the Climate Change Institute's monthly lecture series, which is free and open to the public. The series will resume in the fall. Hamilton will discuss what would happen if the great polar ice ...
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Disney's 'Earth' treads familiar but important ground

USA Today
Still, a lively, informative script would only enhance our enjoyment of watching adorable polar bear cubs scrambling over Arctic ice or fatigued baby elephants lagging behind their mothers on long treks across the Kalahari desert.
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US to pass bill on global warming

Xinhua, China
BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhuanet) -- The US Congress is considering passing a global warming bill this coming week in an effort to impose strict rules to cut down on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from power plants, cars, and other sources.
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Earth Day Celebrated, As Global Warming Debate Heats Up

HULIQ, NC
For those who trumpet that our deficit spending is leaving debt for our children to repay, how about, on this Earth Day, thinking about what consequences will emerge for our children if we don't address global warming and other environmental issues ...
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Global warming prevention will save money, scientists say

USA Today
Energy efficient, cleaner cars, improved electric transmission and a greenhouse gas "cap" will save consumers money while staving off global warming, suggests a Union of Concerned Scientists analysis. Presented in Congressional testimony today, ...
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McCain Slams Obama Cap-and-Trade Climate Change Proposal

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John McCain ripped the White House cap and trade energy proposal on Tuesday as House Republicans said it is too early to debate a climate change bill because a major element of the legislation is missing. The bill aimed to stop global warming by giving ...
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Atmospheric CO2 and Methane Still Building

New York Times, United States
The agency's preliminary summary of greenhouse gas trends consolidates data from 60 monitoring stations around the world. A variety of factors shapes how much of these two gases remains in the atmosphere after they are emitted, which is one reason the ...
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Boehner: Calling Carbon Dioxide Dangerous Is ‘Almost Comical'

New York Times, United States
So what is the Republican answer to climate change? Is it a problem? Do you have a plan to address it? BOEHNER: George, we believe that our - all of the above energy strategy from last year continues to be the right approach on energy.
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Africa says poor need $267 bln/yr in climate fight

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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, April 20 (Reuters) - Developing nations will need at least $267 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change and adapt to droughts, heat waves and rising seas, according to African nations.
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Stephen Hawking's best quotes about the earth, climate change

Examiner.com
I wish him a full and speedy recovery, and I'd like to honor him by sharing his three best quotes about the earth, including his predictions about global climate change: "As scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their devastating ...
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Albertans are in need of a climate-change reality check

Globe and Mail, Canada
A strange and alarming disconnect has opened between what the Alberta government sees and believes about climate-change policy, and what is actually emerging in the United States. Alberta, which accounts for about 32 per cent of Canada's emissions and ...
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UK set to miss climate change targets

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The UK is set to miss climate change targets despite a reduction in greenhouse emissions caused by the recession, analysts have warned. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Cambridge Econometrics forecasts predicted carbon dioxide emissions will ...
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PETER FERRARA: We're Doomed If the EPA Continues to Embrace Bad ...

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By Peter Ferrara Last Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency began implementing Obama administration policy with a "finding" that man-made global warming is a threat to human health. This finding provides the legal foundation for massive ...
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Key Obama Climate Change Exchange Being Swayed

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Barack Obama, which is likely to play a major role in his $650 million cap-and-trade initiative, lists five present or former top-ranking UN officials on its advisory board who've had enormous influence over climate change matters - including one who ...
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The problem with carbon tariffs: They aren't fair

Christian Science Monitor, MA
If each state is able to choose its own level of greenhouse gases it should be permitted to emit, then countries will select standards that benefit themselves and the planet will still have an unsustainable level of greenhouse-gas production.
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Canada's greenhouse emissions soaring: UN report

Canada.com, Canada
This 2009 Environment Canada inventory covers 1990 to 2007, the most recent year that details on human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are available. It says total greenhouse gas emissions in Canada in 2007 were 747 megatonnes, an increase of four per ...
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Climate change will overload humanitarian system, warns Oxfam

guardian.co.uk, UK
Analysis by Oxfam International of the 6500 climate-related disasters recorded since 1980 show that the numbers of people affected by extreme weather events, many of which are linked to climate change, has doubled in just 30 years and is expected to ...
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Study: Shortages likely on Colorado River by 2050

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Less runoff - the snow and rain that fortify the 1400-mile river - caused by human-induced climate change could mean that by 2050 the Colorado won't be able to provide all of its allocated water 60 percent to 90 percent of the time, according to two ...
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Virgin to report greenhouse gases

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Virgin America on Monday became the first US airline to sign up to report its greenhouse gas emissions to the nonprofit Climate Registry. "We hope to do our part to promote awareness and transparency about the impact our industry ...
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Global warming harmful to your health, at last

Danbury News Times, CT
Two years ago, in April 2007, the US Supreme Court stuck its august body into the debate over global warming. The court ruled by a 5-4 margin that carbon dioxide -- the pollutant that comes out of automobile tailpipes and big coal plant smokestacks ...
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Thinner is better to curb global warming

CNN International
By Elizabeth Landau (CNN) -- Here's yet another reason to stay in shape: Thinner people contribute less to global warming, according to a new study. More than 1 billion adults worldwide are overweight, and about 300 million are obese.
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Scientists weigh geoengineering in global warming battle

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Consider atmospheric geoengineering - pumping reflective particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight - seen as a way to cut the effects of global warming. In 1991, the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines cooled the atmosphere's average ...
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Binding green targets in Budget

BBC News, UK
Ministers now proudly claim the carbon budgets as an example of the UK's international leadership on climate. Originally the idea was forced upon them by opposition parties and their own backbenchers frustrated that the rhetoric on climate change was ...
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Salazar reviews 'midnight' endangered species rule

The Associated Press
"From the mightiest beasts, such as the polar bear and Louisiana black bear, to the smallest creatures ... the nation's imperiled species deserve every tool in the toolbox for fighting the climate crisis," she said...
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Don't sink energy independence by crimping biofuels

The Detroit News, MI
As part of California's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels, CARB is pushing for the enactment of a low-carbon fuel standard, or LCFS, that aims to regulate the emissions level of petroleum refiners, biofuels producers ...
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Aborigine, Inuit tradition can fight climate change

Reuters UK, UK
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) - Alaskan Inuits, Australian aborigines and Pygmies from Cameroon have a message for a warming world: native traditions can be a potent weapon against climate change.
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Rick Holmes: Action on global warming

Wicked Local Lancaster, MA
For the last eight years, that division -- and Big Oil's clout in Washington -- has provided an excuse for the American government not to do anything about climate change. But the people now running the government aren't accepting that excuse any more.
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Coal Mining Australia and Climate Change Review

Energy Bangla, Bangladesh
The Garnaut Climate Change Review was a study by Professor Ross Garnaut, commissioned by then Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd ( now Prime Minister of Australian Federal Government ) and by the Australian State and Territory Governments on 30 April 2007.
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Go slow on enacting global warming regs

Modesto Bee, CA
Now, business and governments face myriad regulations to implement the state's sweeping Global Warming Solutions Act, known as Assembly Bill 32. The legislation, passed in 2006, makes California a worldwide leader in addressing the impact of climate ...
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National parks cutting their carbon footprint

Philadelphia Inquirer, PA
Working with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Park Service has launched the Climate Friendly Parks program to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. "Our national parks can be used to demonstrate the impacts of climate change," said Shawn Norton, ...
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SEA CHANGE UNDER WAY

Buffalo News,  United States
Finally we have a president who understands global warming and climate change and is committed to addressing this very serious problem. The importance of this sea change cannot be underestimated. It's cause for real hope and celebration this Earth Day.
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US: Climate change washes islands off map

PRESS TV, Iran
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has warned that climate change and rising level of oceans can wash some countries off the map. The American energy secretary is traveling with President Barack Obama to the two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago for the ...
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