Science academies urge CO2 cuts to protect oceans, reefs

New York Times, United States
"At current emission rates models suggest that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or potentially even earlier," they wrote. Some climate models suggest that, at current CO2 emissions levels, 80 percent of Arctic ...
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A&M-College Station Studies Global Warming Effects On Hurricanes

KRIS-TV, TX
The study released on the first day of the new hurricane season predicts that global warming could have a major impact on the intensity of major storms and their effect on coastal cities, including Corpus Christi. The study is based on certain ...
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A Rogue Burger King Says "Global Warming Is Baloney"

The Business Insider, NY
A reporter in Tennessee noticed his local Burger King had a sign out front declaring "Global Warming Is Baloney." He tried to figure out if that was the official stance of Burger King, or just a franchise gone rogue. Turns out it's a franchise gone ...
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Energy from pig slurry helps fight climate change

The Associated Press
As the world struggles to reduce pollution causing climate change, attention has focused on the burning of fossil fuels in factories, power stations, and vehicles. But UN scientists says farming and forestry account for more than 30 percent of the ...
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Study finds climate change boosts Tex storm flood risk

Reuters
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Climate change over the next 20 to 70 years can be expected to increase hurricane flooding in Corpus Christi, Texas, home of three US refineries, according to a study by Texas A&M University sponsored by the National Commission on ...
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Science academies: ocean acidification must be on CO2 agenda

Ars Technica, MA
The authors state that, at current rates of CO 2 emissions, ecosystems in polar waters will be under severe stress within the next 50 years. They recognize that some species will do well in the changed conditions; for example, a recent study shows that ...
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Australia may breach Kyoto greenhouse targets

NEWS.com.au, Australia
The Government's National Greenhouse Gas Accounts, released this week, show Australia emitted 553 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2008. That's short of the Kyoto cap, which is 559 million tonnes, but emissions have been rising by 1.5 per cent a ...
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Ottawa voiceless on climate change

Toronto Star,  Canada
The intensive preparations in provincial capitals would be laudable if not for the reality that something is sorely missing: a truly national response to the global spectre of climate change. After more than three years in power, ...
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Coming Clean on Going Green

BusinessWeek
In 2002 a group of investors banded together to ask companies to come clean on greenhouse gas emissions. Known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, the group has grown to 475 in 2009 from 35 in 2002 and has a combined asset base of $55 trillion.
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Biomass Power Generates Traction

Wall Street Journal
While greenhouse gas is released when biomass is burned, the process is considered nearly carbon neutral because the plants only emit the carbon they absorbed while they were growing. The plants would release the same amount of greenhouse gas if they ...
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Pro-Con | Is global warming real and threatening the planet?

Kansas City Star, MO
... which is why the polar ice caps are melting. And the scientific community - real scientists, not those who work for industry or right-wing think tanks - is united ��� in the belief in climate change and its connection to excessive carbon output.
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Burger Kings Deny Global Warming

MyFox Chattanooga, TN
By ANTHONY BARTKEWICZ Several Burger King restaurants in and around Memphis, Tenn., were seen displaying the message "Global warming is baloney" on their signs, according to the Memphis Flyer. The Memphis Flyer's Chris Davis spoke with an employee at ...
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Climate talks move into next phase

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The US delegation wanted the text to put all countries on a more equal footing, requiring every country to take action to fight climate change according to its capability. Developing countries said the draft failed to take adequate account of their ...
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Dolphin and whale climate fears

BBC News, UK
Dr macleod, said: "In the past, the main concern was for the small number of polar species likely to be affected by a decline in sea ice. However, this new study shows that there are many more species to be worried about.
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World's next big climate pact begins to take shape

Christian Science Monitor
The protocol, which formally took force last year, calls on industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by a combined average of 5.5 percent below 1990 levels. The timetable and topics the new treaty must cover were set out at global ...
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US climate bill best bet to take enviro lead: Chu

Reuters
By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US climate change bill making its way through Congress is the best legislative bet to help the country take the lead in tackling global warming on the world stage, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on ...
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US Fuel Efficiency Policy

Voice of America
In May, President Barack Obama set in motion a new national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks in the United States. The new standards covering automobile model years 2012 to ...
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Climate Deal Must Cover Acid Oceans, World Scientists Urge

Environment News Service
The statement emphasizes that ocean acidification is irreversible and, on current emission trajectories, suggests that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or even earlier. In their statement, the scientific academies ...
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The seldom-seen devastation of climate change

Salon
A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic. By Peter Dizikes June 1, 2009 | In our visual culture, climate change remains oddly invisible. Few people can glimpse melting glaciers or ...
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News Viewpoint: Global warming is a giant scam

Gloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ
Former Vice President Al Gore says the science is settled and refuses to debate anyone about global warming. Of course he can't debate anyone on the issue, because he will be exposed for the charlatan that he is. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Oscar was ...
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Examiner.com exclusive global warming debates--Stephen Schneider ...

Examiner.com
In the first part of our interview with Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, we covered a wide range of topics regarding the 'state of play' regarding the debate on global warming. One part of it got picked up by the rest of the media ...
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Can't We Just Learn To Live With Global Warming?

The Plank on TNR.com, DC
Here's an example: The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change recently released the results of its climate modeling, and found that the median projections for average global surface warming by 2100 are 5.2��C (9.4��F).
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Brasher: Road to greenhouse gas control goes through farmers

DesMoinesRegister.com, IA
By PHILIP BRASHER ��� pbrasher@dmreg.com ��� May 31, 2009 Washington, DC - If Democrats are serious about enacting controls on greenhouse gases, they may have to win over farmers first. House Democrat leaders are pledging to move ahead with legislation ...
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Carbon target impasse continues as Bonn talks kick off

Business Green, UK
The latest round of UN-backed climate change talks kicked off in Bonn, Germany today with the US negotiating team reiterating their view that rich nations are unlikely to be able to deliver the deep short term cuts in carbon emissions being demanded by ...
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California forests hold one answer to climate change

Los Angeles Times, CA
In the struggle over how to address climate change nationally and globally, forests play a major role. "Cap-and-trade" programs set limits on greenhouse gases and allow industries to trade emissions permits among themselves.
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In Climate Debate, Big Corn Demands Another Handout

Daily Green
Corn ethanol is hardly better (or a little worse) than gasoline, when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions ... but politics is politics. As if corn isn't already getting a heapin' helpin' of federal subsidies. Blue Dog Democrat Collin Peterson, ...
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Bill aims to keep emission-reduction efforts local

Los Angeles Times, CA
In addition to slowing global warming, greenhouse gas cleanup would reduce the particulates and toxic gases that cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. But companies want to avoid some cleanup expenses through "offsets" -- paying for cheaper ...
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Only question is, what to do about global warming

River Falls Journal, WI
Global warming is well established in science. It is not a matter of belief, but of evidence, and the evidence for global warming is overwhelming. The very few scientists who dispute global warming usually do not do research in the area.
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Daniels Criticizes Democrats Plans to Reduce Global Warming

NewsTalk 1010 WCSI, Indiana
Governor Mitch Daniels used his time as host of the Republican Party's weekly radio and Internet address to speak out against a Democratic-sponsored plan to reduce global warming. Daniels criticized President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
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My Opinion On The Cause Of Global Warming

Daily Kos, CA
by ProgressiveTokyo A Rasmussen telephone survey earlier this year found that a plurality of Americans (44%) think global warming is caused by long-term planetary trends. Which influenced my to write down my thought on Global Warming.
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National greenhouse gas emissions rising

Brisbane Times, Australia
The national greenhouse accounts released on Monday show emissions rose by an estimated 553 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 1.1 per cent, last year. Senator Wong said the underlying trends showed carbon pollution was increasing, ...
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Climate Change Study Finds Increasing Greenhouse Emissions

NewsOXY, FL
Climate change is a global effect which is occurring more rapidly than any other human generation on Earth. Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing far more rapidly, which has an impact on the environment and current climate conditions.
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Climate change turning seas acid, academies warn

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BONN, Germany, June 1 (Reuters) - Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday.
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Pelosi's Chinese Climate Change

Wall Street Journal
So the Chinese economy would be more efficient, while the West would be less competitive. Whatever Chinese leaders do collectively on climate change, they must be relieved that Mrs. Pelosi no longer wants to press very hard for individual rights...
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Ethanol Test For Obama On Climate Change

Chief Engineer, IL
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread use of ethanol: Does it help or hurt ...
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NDSU Biofuels Economist Sees Challenges for Corn Ethanol Plants

Dakota Farmer, SD
EPA is proposing that conventional biofuels, such as grain ethanol, in the future must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20%. EPA plans to includes both "direct" and "indirect" causes of greenhouse gas emissions during the lifecycle of ...
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Cap-and-Trade: All Cost, No Benefit

Washington Post, United States
But that is not a reason to enact a US cap-and-trade system until there is a global agreement on CO2 reduction. The proposed legislation would have a trivially small effect on global warming while imposing substantial costs on all American households.
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Congress Considers Major Global Warming Measure

Chief Engineer, IL
The fallout from global warming, while subtle now, could eventually be more dire. That prospect has Democrats pushing legislation that rivals in scope the nation's landmark anti-pollution laws. Lawmakers are beginning hearings on an energy and global ...
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Expecting New Tax, Firm Prepares to Track Carbon

New York Times, United States
Since 2007, it has been quietly incubating Hara, a start-up that on Monday will start selling software to help businesses measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. "This is not 'greenwash.' It's dollars to the bottom line," said John Doerr, ...
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Global warming toward the EU's upper limit

Crikey, Australia
A dissipation of aerosols and the melting of polar ice would raise polar temperature anomalies to levels exceeding even the current 4 to 5 degrees C warming in parts of the Arctic circle, Siberia and west Antarctica. Such high degrees of warming result ...
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Global Warming

Daily Times, Pakistan
Because people are burning fuels with carbon in (that's oil, gas and coal which you use in cars, aeroplanes, power stations and so on), all this carbon gets dumped into the air, mixed with the oxygen we all breathe, and so adds to our greenhouse gas ...
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Climate and energy bill faces hurdles when Congress returns

Kansas City Star, MO
As it now stands, the measure would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent compared with 2005 levels by 2020, and continues to an 83 percent cut by 2050 by setting a declining limit, or cap, on the amount of emissions companies can produce.
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Racing beyond Kyoto

The Gazette (Montreal), Canada
The fear is that an increase above that would mean widespread destruction of ecosystems and an irreversible melting of the polar ice caps that over the next few centuries would substantially increase sea levels. A total meltdown would essentially wipe ...
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Paddling furiously against the tide of climate change

Small Gov Times, VA
Global warming is the invention of the United Nations which launched it with the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 via its Environment Program in association with its World Meteorological Organization.
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For climate change bill, hard part starts now

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Environmentalists celebrated earlier this month when a key House committee approved a contentious proposal to combat climate change after months of often-bitter public deliberations and intense closed-door negotiations. But for congressional supporters ...
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The Six Views that Americans Have on Global Warming

Softpedia, Romania
By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Experts from the Yale University and the George Mason University have recently finished compiling a new study regarding the views that American citizens have on global warming, and determined the fact that the population ...
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From the Los Angeles Times

Baltimore Sun, United States
... a "cash for clunkers" program in the major energy bill being written in Congress, but they ended a White House meeting without reaching agreement on thornier issues -- including how to reduce the economic impact of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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New report: Worldwide deaths from climate to reach .5M

Business Mirror, Philippines
CLIMATE change accounts for more than 300000 deaths per year around the world and $125 billion of economic losses annually, creating conditions where more people feel the effects of natural disasters or suffer environmental degradation, ...
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India asked to cut greenhouse gas emissions 15-30 pc

Hindu, India
New Delhi (IANS): India is under pressure from industrialised countries to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15-30 percent by 2020. India's negotiators are meeting their counterparts from G77 couontries and China throughout this weekend in ...
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Climate change: 'Bali Road Map' seeks compass

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PARIS (AFP) - Gruelling efforts to craft a pact on climate change enter a crucial phase on Monday when the 192-nation UN forum takes its first look at a draft text for negotiations. The 12-day huddle in the German city of Bonn under the UN Framework ...
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