Climate change a 'game changer' in US-China relations: Pelosi

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BEIJING (AFP) - US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that the fight against climate change was a "game changer" in China-US relations, as she visited Beijing on a trip focused on energy. Pelosi, a tough critic of China's human ...
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The Biggest Tax Increase In World History

Human Events, DC
The ostensible purpose of Waxman-Markey is to contain global warming by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. The cap-and-trade scheme at the heart of the bill would do this by limiting severely the amount of energy derived from ...
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China flexible on rich nation greenhouse gas cuts

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BEIJING, May 26 (Reuters) - Climate change negotiations late this year need not specify greenhouse gas cuts for the United States and other rich countries, a top Chinese climate policy official said on Tuesday. In its formal demands for the Copenhagen ...
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GE says it has reduced greenhouse emissions

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. says it has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions and is making a growing amount of money from its environmentally conscious business plan launched in 2005. In the annual report of GE's ...
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Cool IT leaders needed to tackle global warming

Media Newswire (press release), NY
The IT industry calculates that it could enable more than 15% cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020(3). However, the IT industry needs to look beyond just cutting its own internal emissions and deliver climate solutions for the rest of the ...
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The Wildlife Forecast: Watch the Coral Reefs for Effects of ...

Wakulla.com, FL
"The coral reefs are the sentinel for climate change," said Patty Glick from the National Wildlife Federation and author of "Preparing for a Sea Change in Florida." "And in the Caribbean and Florida we're already seeing the signs.
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GOP claims global warming bill will cost jobs, hike prices

Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA
By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A Democratic bill aimed at reining in global warming and promoting alternative energy development will increase energy prices and cost jobs, according to Republican Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, in Pittsburgh ...
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Greenhouse Gas Bill Moves Forward, Slowly

Washington Post, United States
By David Fahrenthold The debate over a bill to cap US greenhouse-gas emissions is finally moving in a House committee. Yesterday, the Energy and Commerce began what will likely be a weeklong markup of the "Waxman-Markey" bill. But they didn't actually ...
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Exxon shareholder activists seeking action on greenhouse gas emissions

Dallas Morning News, TX
But on Tuesday, the Sisters of St. Dominic withdrew their proposal for Chevron to take action on greenhouse gas emissions. They didn't withdraw a similar proposal for Exxon shareholders. "Basically these companies are night and day in terms of the ...
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Will Sotomayor Be Bad On Global Warming Legislation?

The Chilling Effect, DC
One Response to "Will Sotomayor Be Bad On Global Warming Legislation?" This nominee appears willing to use whatever method is available to advance leftist causes. She has noted while on camera with a wink and a nod that courts don't legislate.
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Climate-Change Bill Hits Some of the Right Notes but Botches the ...

Washington Post, United States
But now that we know what a climate-change bill looks like when it is jury-rigged to accommodate all the special interests, maybe Americans will be willing to reconsider one of the cleaner, simpler approaches -- a carbon tax with all the revenue ...
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Pelosi Seeks Common Ground With China on Environment

Wall Street Journal
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, also in China, stressed the importance of US-China agreement on climate change as well. "Copenhagen will be defined by what the US and China agree on in the next few weeks," Mr. Kerry said.
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Help for poor countries at Paris climate talks

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PARIS (AP) - The world's biggest polluters made progress on a global deal to finance efforts to fight global warming and help poor countries cope with it, the French hosts of climate talks said Tuesday. However, the environment ministers and top ...
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The global warming debates: Stephen Schneider

Examiner.com
This is part one of an interview with Professor Stephen Schneider regarding global warming and climate change issues. Update: Roger Pielke Sr., principal contributor to Climate Science, has commented both here and on his website regarding my ...
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Global Warming: a Controversial Bill, And a Game of Roulette

Popular Science, NY
Donna Coveney/MIT It's time to call your bookie, because the line on global warming is in. A new paper from MIT breaks down the odds of different outcomes from global warming, based on whether governments take action now or later.
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Obama Supreme Court pick has small but solid record on ...

Grist Magazine, WA
One area that could be ripe for a Supreme Court evaluation are questions of what existing laws can do to protect species threatened by climate change, an issue that environmentalists have raised repeatedly when it comes to the polar bear.
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'Climate change making Everest harder to scale'

Mirror.co.uk, UK
A sherpa who holds the world record for climbing Everest has warned that climate change is making the mountain harder to scale. Apa Sherpa, 49 - who made his 19th successful ascent last week carrying the banner "Stop Climate Change, Let the Himalayas ...
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Climate change: Progress seen on funding problem

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PARIS (AFP) - The world's biggest carbon polluters made headway in talks here Tuesday on how to beef up funding to help poor countries in the firing line of climate change, senior officials said. The so-called Major Economies Forum (MEF) advanced on ...
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Taking pollution to market: America looks to make real climate ...

Independent, UK
Some of those same business leaders were in Copenhagen over the weekend to broaden support and add momentum to the process towards a new climate change treaty later this year. About 500 chief executives, business experts and campaigning celebrities ...
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25 x '25 Alliance wants more ag input on climate change bill

Brownfield, MO
by Ken Anderson The 25 x '25 Alliance is calling on House leaders to refer the climate change bill to the House Agriculture Committee. The climate change legislation, which would establish the first national limit on greenhouse gases, was passed by the ...
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House Climate Change Bill Clears Key Hurdle

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By ClimateBiz Staff - ClimateBiz Staff The nation's first federal climate change cleared a key hurdle last night by making it out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a 33-25 vote. The American Clean Energy and Security Act, also known as the ...
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House Panel Passes Limit on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

Washington Post, United States
By David A. Fahrenthold A bill to create the first national limit on greenhouse-gas emissions was approved by a House committee yesterday after a week of late-night debates that cemented the shift of climate change from rhetorical jousting to a subject ...
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Energy Secretary Pushes for Action on Climate Change

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He said simple measures like painting roofs white and encouraging home buyers to look at utility bills when choosing a house could play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "Energy efficiency is ultimately free money," he said.
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Pelosi says climate change could change US-China game

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Whether Washington and Beijing can agree on how each will help contain greenhouse gas emissions will be crucial to negotiations aimed at striking a new treaty by the end of the year in Copenhagen. While the two sides have struck up-beat notes since ...
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House Panel Clears Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases

Wall Street Journal
By IAN TALLEY and STEPHEN POWER WASHINGTON -- A landmark proposal to curb US greenhouse-gas emissions cleared a key congressional panel, bolstering prospects that the government will put a price on carbon for the first time and portending a major shift ...
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Study doubts bill's effect on coal use

Houston Chronicle, United States
The sweeping bill voted out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee would create a cap-and-trade system that aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions by setting steadily decreasing limits and requiring polluters to obtain emission permits, ...
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Progress Made in Paris Climate Talks

Voice of America
But he did not say whether progress had been made on one critical issue: the size of greenhouse gas emission cuts that scientists say are vital to reducing the impact of climate change. The Paris meeting is one of three gathering the 17 nations ahead ...
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Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps

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COPENHAGEN (AP) - Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new UN climate treaty by agreeing Tuesday that the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by mid-century by setting specific limits on carbon.
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Gregoire orders state agencies to cut greenhouse-gas emissions

Seattle Times, United States
... Aidan Silber, 4, checks out "Snowflake," the polar bear, and other puppets Backbone Campaign brought to Thursday's rally on the waterfront in Seattle. The demonstration was held outside of the EPA's climate-change hearing. Gov.
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Obama team retains Bush polar bear policy

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
The polar bear, which environmental groups have made the furry face of climate change, presents a kind of problem that will come up again. Scientists say climate change is affecting animals all over the world, altering their habitats underneath them or ...
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Witnessing 'Nature's Most Amazing Events'

Buffalo News,  United States
By now unfortunately, most of us are familiar with the haunting image of a starving polar bear clinging to an ice floe and searching for food. Though we see the hungry polar bear here, we also see how his environment changes over the year.
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Carbon allowances -- the glue in House energy package

New York Times, United States
By PETER BEHR, Greenwire A massive climate bill has taken its first step forward in the House, its path paved by the giveaway of allowances -- free greenhouse gas emission permits designed to mute the economic impact of a carbon cap-and-trade program.
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Professor Steven Chu: paint the world white to fight global warming

Times Online, UK
The Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by President Obama as US Energy Secretary wants to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so they reflect more of the Sun's light and heat to combat global warming, he said today.
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Lose-Lose on Biofuels?

AMERICAN.COM, DC
An article published in Sciencemagazinein 2008 found that "corn-based ethanol nearly doubles greenhouse gas emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years." Another article in Scienceconcluded that crop-based biofuels create a ...
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India's activists push their government to put a price on carbon

New York Times, United States
By LISA FRIEDMAN, ClimateWire A coalition of Indian activists, academics and entrepreneurs is urging India's leaders to take a more aggressive stand on climate change. In two days of talks with US lawmakers and policy experts in Washington, DC, ...
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Pelosi staying on-subject while in China

China Daily, China
Accompanied by four Democrats and one Republican - all members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, - Pelosi met Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng. On Sunday, the delegation met the head of the local legislature.
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Australia's Greens want quick vote on carbon trade

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The carbon-trade plan is one of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's key reforms and a central plank of Australia's efforts to fight global warming, but the government is struggling to find the seven extra votes it needs in parliament's upper house Senate.
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US business-government relations undergo a climate change

Los Angeles Times, CA
Those shifts have been fueled by deep economic troubles accompanied by a sharp change in national political control, leading to a vastly different philosophy about how Washington should interact with corporations, he said. "There is a changing climate ...
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RP rebuts US statement on climate change

Manila Bulletin, Philippines
The Philippine government lauded Monday US commitments to reduce global warming but took exception to a US statement dismissive of the carbon reduction goals submitted by the Philippines to the recent UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, ...
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Peter Foster: Climate change makes for strange bedfellows

National Post, Canada
That new scary feature is the threat of climate change policy, which has unleashed a bout of interventionist aspiration unseen since the Soviet empire sought world domination. Climate change policy hysteria has led a weird combination of schizophrenia ...
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Idaho delegation opposes greenhouse gas legislation

IdahoStatesman.com, ID
Lawmakers doubt that a bill they say would raise the cost of gas and electricity can pass Congress this year. BY ROCKY BARKER - rbarker@idahostatesman.com Anything Congress can do to fight climate change is going to cost Americans more money for energy ...
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Yes to Obama's energy plan, no to global warming scare tactics

Examiner.com
This is despite my firm belief that climate change activists have severely exaggerated their claims regarding the causes and potential effects of global warming. Imagine a world much like today's, but without global warming as an issue.
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Will new gas standards hold up at the pump?

Tampabay.com, FL
The (greenhouse gas) standards will start a regulatory chain reaction with potentially devastating economic impacts. ��� A more potent anti-stimulus would be hard to imagine. Today is a good day. At the Auto Alliance, an association representing major ...
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Nuclear, Low-Carbon Platform Solutions To Climate Change

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ROME (Dow Jones)--Energy ministers from the world's eight richest nations Monday said they would increasingly emphasize nuclear energy and the creation of a common low-carbon technology platform as solutions to climate change and supply insecurity.
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Memorial Day Weekend at the Indy500; greenhouse gas, cars, stars'n ...

Cleveland Indy Media, OH
Not with more military recruitment fests, including this Indy500 spectacle celebrating cars, greenhouse gas, advertising, and militarism. A race car sponsored by the Indiana National Guard was the first to crash today, 05/23/2009, in the Indianapolis ...
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Climate-change action picks up on three fronts

Seattle Times, United States
Chris Gregoire indicate the momentum that has replaced debate on climate change. THE climate-change debate has never lacked for passion and energy, but it has remained, despite various fits and starts, a debate. Until now. A confluence of events, ...
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Surmounting climate change in the Himalayas

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(CNN) -- Dawa Steven Sherpa is leader of Eco Everest Expeditions, aiming to educate climbers about their impact on the Himalayas and highlight the affects of climate change on the region. On May 21, his fellow climber Apa Sherpa broke the world record ...
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Should Major Emitters Focus on the Sun?

New York Times, United States
It is a makeover of the Bush administration's Major Economies Meetings on Energy Security and Climate Change. That initiative was widely criticized, particularly in Europe, as an end run around United Nations talks on a new climate treaty.
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Denise Bester: Adapting to climate change can improve our lives

New Zealand Herald, New Zealand
World Environment Day is just around the corner, keeping the spotlight firmly on climate change in the run up to the international climate convention later this year. And that means the climate debate is a "hot" topic once again.
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Earth Talk: Scientists cite global-warming dangers

Baxter Bulletin, AR
Researchers believe that global warming is already responsible for some 150000 deaths each year around the world, and fear that the number may well double by 2030 even if we start getting serious about emissions reductions today.
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