A lost opportunity: Global climate change impacts in the United States

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They predict that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be 'gone' by the middle of this century, but don't mention that their numbers are actually increasing, nor that polar bears successfully survived previous epochs where no ice existed in the ...
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Scientists: Global warming is real, and it is only getting worse

Seattle Times, United States
The report, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States," covers much of the same ground as previous analyses from US and United Nations science panels. It finds that greenhouse-gas emissions are "primarily" responsible for global warming and ...
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The opportunity cost of global warming

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Of all the criticisms of global warmng 'skeptics' (in quotes because very few of them are skeptical of global warming per se, but are just skeptical that the world is ending because of it), only one seems serious to me. I saw it first regarding Bjorn ...
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Climate change will displace 200 million people by 2050

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"While human migration and displacement is usually the result of multiple factors, the influence of climate change in people's decision to give up their livelihood and leave their homes is growing", said Dr. Charles Ehrhart, CARE's climate change ...
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The Economic Impact of Climate Change

New York Times, United States
By Catherine Rampell As it gears up for a battle over cap-and-trade, the Obama administration is painting a dire picture of the potential effects of global climate change on the American economy. The comprehensive report that the administration ...
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Slowing winds maybe caused by global warming

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Scientists are saying that global warming, something that wind power is supposed to be helping, maybe the cause. The report might not be as big a shock to wind farming, because the study also shows that wind speeds in certain parts of the country are ...
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US Government Scientists Call For Urgent Action on Global Warming

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By Kate Woodsome Several top US government climate change scientists released a new report on Tuesday warning that the affects of global warming will become more severe unless the Obama administration takes action quickly. For years, scientists have ...
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Global warming study: US has already started changing

Boston Globe, United States
WASHINGTON -- A new government study of global warming confirms that climate change caused by carbon dioxide is already having a "visible impact" on the United States, and severe problems are on the way -- including longer droughts, more floods and an ...
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Commentary: Climate-change legislation must recognize farmers' role

California Farm Bureau, CA
By Bob Stallman American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman testified before the House Agriculture Committee last week, regarding climate change legislation being considered by Congress. Excerpts: Agriculture and forestry have a very ...
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White House global warming report: Not much new except for its ...

Dallas Morning News, TX
How much so depends on whether anthropogenic (people-made) greenhouse gas emissions come under control a little, a lot, or not at all. Texas is in the climatological and economic crosshairs in any climate change scenario. Maps of projected climate ...
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US climate report details energy, agriculture harm

Reuters India, India
"Human induced climate change is a reality, not only in remote polar regions (and) in small tropical islands, but every place around the country -- in our own backyards." The House climate bill aims to reduce carbon emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 83 ...
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Highlights from climate change report

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De-salinization of the oceans-remember that? was supposedly caused by melting polar ice caps. Oops. turned out to be cyclical. Twnety degrees-that's right, twenty-belw normal forthemonth of June in the northeast. Turns out to be sunspot related-as in, ...
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Global warming affecting every corner of the US, report says

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No corner of the US has been untouched by global warming. And the effects are expected to tighten their grip over the course of this century, according to a new report from the federal Global Change Research Program released Tuesday.
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White House: Climate change damage happening now

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House. Global warming has ...
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UN warns of 'megadisasters' linked to climate change

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GENEVA (AFP) - The United Nations on Tuesday raised the prospect of "megadisasters" affecting millions of people in some of the world's biggest cities unless more is done to heed the threat of climate change. "We are going to see more disasters and ...
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World disaster toll faces new threat from global warning: Red Cross

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It cautioned that only piecemeal progress had been made on prevention, early warning and mitigation measures to cope with floods, drought, storms and earthquakes, despite the growing risk of extreme weather with global warming.
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Study Maps Best Spots for Harnessing High-Altitude Winds

New York Times, United States
Their research also studied the high-altitude wind profiles above the five largest cities in the world and found New York, Tokyo and Seoul to have significant potential because of their position below polar jet streams. Jet streams are meandering ...
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Report: Climate Change Already Affecting US

Washington Post, United States
By David A. Fahrenthold Man-made climate change is already lifting temperatures, increasing rainfall, and raising sea levels around the United States -- and its effects are on track to get much worse in the coming century, according to a report ...
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Investors Call On SEC to Enforce Climate Change Disclosures

Environmental Leader, CO
The investor community is making another attempt to push the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to improve disclosure of climate change risks. Members of the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) and other leading global investors sent a ...
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Honeywell Helps Process Manufacturers Improve Energy Efficiency ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
PHOENIX, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced Energy Management Solutions, a customizable portfolio of new and existing hardware, software and services to help improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) ...
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'Global Warming

American Daily, OH
Polar ice caps are melting and making the sea level rise. FACT: No sign of sea level rise have been shown by monitoring in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Earth's climate is variable and while it may get colder in one part of the earth, ...
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Obama targets US public with call for climate action

guardian.co.uk, UK
... and the extinction of Alaska's wild polar bears in the next 75 years. For many Americans, the report released today, entitled Global climate change impacts in the United States provides the most tangible evidence of the economic costs of climate ...
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Government Study Warns of Climate Change Effects

New York Times, United States
"What we would want to have people take away is that climate change is happening now, and it's actually beginning to affect our lives," said Thomas R. Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
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Big Oil: We've Invested Billions To Fight Global Warming!

The Business Insider, NY
The oil-and-gas industry would like you to know that it has poured more money into reducing greenhouse gases than any other industry. Between 2000 and 2008, private industry and the federal government invested $132.9 billion in greenhouse-gas reducing ...
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Asia set to become biggest climate change driver

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Asia's share of global greenhouse gas emissions could rise to more than 40 percent by 2030, making it the world's main driver of climate change, experts warned Tuesday. The most populous continent with the fastest-growing ...
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Aussie senator unsure humans cause climate change

WKRG-TV, AL
Steve Fielding is one of two independents in the Senate the government needs next week to pass its blueprint to curb Australia's carbon dioxide emissions, one of the greenhouse gasses blamed for dangerous climate change.
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Herbert on climate change: Science still has some convincing to do

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
By Judy Fahys Park City �� There was Energy Secretary Steven Chu bearing the grim news: Climate change -- from shrinking ice caps and swelling sea levels to fire-prone forests and a drought-plagued West -- is more ominous than previously projected.
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Climate Change Is Behind Many Preventable Deaths

Wall Street Journal
Regarding your editorial " 'Worse Than Fiction' "(June 6) about our recent publication, "Human Impact Report: Climate Change -- The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis": Unfortunately, this issue of climate change is not going away, however much we all wish it ...
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Depictions Of Global Warming Are Terrifying Our Children

The Business Insider, NY
[Energy Source] Stop using excessive fear mongering when talking about global warming. [Guardian] Tesla's official releases never call Elon Musk a founder. [Greentech Media] Honda's hybrid, the Insight, may fall short of sales targets by 33%.
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Fielding unconvinced after climate change lesson

ABC Online, Australia
The Family First Senator Steve Fielding, whose vote the Government is courting for its emissions trading scheme, spent more than two hours with Australia's chief scientist Penny Sackett and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong yesterday.
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US report to press case for quick moves on climate

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By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top climate change scientists will unveil a report on Tuesday that details the impact of global warming on the United States and argues for fast action ...
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Gas Attack: Coal (And Clean Energy) Under Assault From Cheap ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Natural gas has only half the greenhouse-gas emissions as coal. If climate legislation slaps a big price tag on carbon emissions, natural gas will become more attractive as a power source. Which raises a big question about the rebirth of the futuregen ...
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Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change

Farm and Dairy, Ohio
"Maintaining or increasing forest cover has been identified as an important way to slow climate change," said Jacobs. "The American chestnut is an incredibly fast-growing tree. Generally the faster a tree grows, the more carbon it is able to sequester.
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Starting with doctors, Obama faces long, hot summer

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Republicans are moving into all-out opposition on health care and climate change too, seeing both as their road to redemption. The issues hit squarely on their sweet spot, allowing them to slam Democrats for raising taxes and increasing spending.
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Big Oil Is Biggest Investor in Greenhouse Gas-Curbing Technologies ...

New York Times, United States
By MICHAEL BURNHAM and GREENWIRE The US public and private sectors invested $132.9 billion in greenhouse gas-mitigating technologies between 2000 and 2008 -- including projects that capture methane from landfills and carbon dioxide from oil refineries ...
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Global warming causing mass migration

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BERLIN, June 15 (UPI) -- Global warming will submerge island states, destroy farmland and force millions of people into migration by 2050, according to a report unveiled at climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Worsening tropical storms, desert ...
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Paul McCartney Calls for Meat-Free Mondays to Curb Animal Gas

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Cows, pigs and sheep bred for human consumption discharge millions of tons of methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Livestock emissions account for about 18 percent of greenhouse gases, more than all the world's cars, ...
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Brokering a global deal on climate change

Business Mirror, Philippines
In an exclusive interview with BusinessMirror correspondent Imelda V. Aba��o on the sidelines of the climate-change talks in Bonn, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), outlines the ...
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Open Forum: A choice on climate change

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
By Helene D.Gayle It's time the world paid attention to an equally powerful but often-overlooked sign of climate change: people migrating. Consider the Vietnamese rice farmer forced to resettle in another part of the Mekong Delta because "flooding ...
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Global warming isn't real

NEWS.com.au, Australia
"Global warming quite clearly over the last decade hasn't been actually occurring," Senator Fielding said before the meeting. The Senate is due to vote on emissions trading next week. Senator Fielding recently returned from a self-funded trip to the US ...
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Pachauri: Stern stance on China climate talks 'pragmatic'

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(CNN) -- The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has rejected suggestions that the US has adopted too soft a stance on climate change negotiations with China. Protesters march through Sydney, Australia on June 13 to urge more ...
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McCartney urges 'meat-free days' to tackle climate change

Independent, UK
"We should care about climate change because if we don't, we are going to leave our children and their children in a hell of a mess," Sir Paul told The Independent, which has been given exclusive details of the launch. The McCartneys have attracted ...
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Local Officials Share Climate Change Strategies With the World

Nation's Cities Weekly, DC
by Kathleen M. Novak In December, cabinet ministers from all United Nations member countries are invited to Copenhagen, Denmark, to write a new international climate change agreement as the successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Last week in Copenhagen, ...
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House Ag Committee Hears Climate Change Testimony

Hoosier Ag Today, IN
Last week the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review pending climate change legislation under consideration by Congress. Chairman Collin Peterson said many members of the committee were quite concerned with the potential impact on people ...
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Getting a deal on global warming

Irish Times, Ireland
The extent of this debt is enormous and needs to be repaid by developed countries making deep cuts in emissions as well as providing substantial aid to help developing countries adapt to the consequences of global warming and find more environmentally ...
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Argentine glacier advances despite global warming

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures. Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of ...
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International Agreement on Climate Treaty Seems Unlikely in 2009

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... and even if it does happen it would prove largely ineffective since the developing countries wouldn't be a part of it. The US Energy Secretary has stated that in order to tackle the problem of climate change his country needs to work as a leader.
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Australia pushes for airlines to curb emissions

guardian.co.uk, UK
The prospect of a worldwide carbon tax for airline passengers is gathering pace after the Australian government demanded the inclusion of the aviation industry in the global climate change treaty. The Australian administration has proposed that ...
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WINDMILL: US reps fear effect on farmers of pending climate change ...

San Angelo Standard Times, tx
By Jerry Lackey (Contact) The climate change legislation under consideration by Congress has drawn growing opposition from Democratic and Republican members of the US House Agriculture Committee and encouraged Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., ...
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Obama's energy secretary calls for white roofs to slow global warming

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The energy secretary mentioned that white roofs would put a brake on global warming and ease electric bills in hot areas. Professor Chu said that the current research that the Berkeley Lab has conducted shows that light colored roofs could slow global ...
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