FACTBOX: Climate bill pending in US House

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(Reuters) - Climate change legislation pending in Congress would cost US households only about $175 annually in higher energy and consumer prices, far less than the $3100 "burden" opponents have claimed would result, according to an estimate by the ...
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US Pelosi's Office: House to Vote on Climate Bill By Friday

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Efforts to advance the legislation had stalled amid opposition from farm-state lawmakers, who worry that their states will face disproportionate costs under a law to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, ...
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EPA up to no good again

Palestine Herald Press, TX
I wrote a story and followed it with an opinion piece about the EPA classifying greenhouse gas emissions as an endangerment to public health. Now, it looks to be getting closer to becoming real - another example of government overreach into the lives ...
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Scientists warn of growing threat to global warming from unchecked ...

UN News Centre
22 June 2009 - An international team of scientific researchers has warned that hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases - used increasingly in insulation foam, air-conditioning and refrigeration - present a significant threat to global efforts to stabilize ...
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Cows' gaseous burps are big contributors to global warming

Kentucky.com, KY
It's for a noble cause: cutting down on the gases that contribute to global warming. Working with 15 Vermont farms to change cows' diets so they emit less methane, it has already reduced cow burping by as much as 18 percent.
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The time to address global warming is yesterday.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO
By Editorial Board Remember all that talk about how global warming was going to change our lives? It already has. A new federal report on the impact of climate change condenses the latest science from a variety of disciplines.
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New Climate Change Cost Analysis Released

Hoosier Ag Today, IN
The Congressional Budget Office has added some fuel to the fire when it comes to the debate over the climate change bill moving in the US House. The CBO reports the legislation would cost US households an average of 175-dollars a year in 2020.
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Greenfreeze Could Spell the Deep Freeze for Global Warming ...

CleanTechnica, CA
It's not a moment too soon: a new study has fingered HFC refrigerants and other so-called F-gasses as a rapidly growing source of emissions responsible for global warming. SNAP is the US EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy Program, ...
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Signs of Global Warming Already Evident in the US

Opposing Views, CA
Insect infestations and wildfires are already increasing and are projected to increase further in a warming climate. * Local sea-level rise of over three feet on top of storm surges will increasingly threaten homes and other coastal infrastructure.
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New York 'carbon counter' sign shows greenhouse gases in real time

guardian.co.uk, UK
New Yorkers leaving Penn station and the tenor Andrea Bocelli's concert at Madison Square Garden stadium were confronted with an unusual advert yesterday - a huge sign showing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. Updated in real time, ...
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For Obama, Welcome News from Number Crunchers for a Change

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
The CBO says the leading congressional proposal to control greenhouse gas emissions would have a fairly modest impact on the economy, with net annual economy-wide cost in 2020 of $22 billion-or about $175 per household. That conclusion, in a report ...
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Refrigerants pose a greater global warming risk, report says

Green Right Now, CA
A new study released today says refrigerant chemicals, also known as F-gases, are a more dangerous threat to global warming than had been previously predicted. The paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, projects that ...
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Mexico warns recession could hurt climate goals

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Speaking at a meeting of representatives of the world's biggest economies on how to tackle climate change, Calderon said the world was running out of time to take serious action to address the problem of global warming. "The finger-pointing has gone on ...
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Refrigerants set to spur climate change: study

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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Greenhouse gases from chemicals used in refrigerants and air conditioning are set to be a bigger than expected spur of climate change by 2050, scientists said. In the worst case, ...
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CBO: Climate bill costs to be modest.

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Carbon dioxide, produced from burning fossil fuels, especially coal, is the leading manmade greenhouse gas linked to global warming. The reductions would be made by capping emissions on key polluting sources - coal burning power plants, refineries, ...
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Mexico seeks help for developing nations on climate change

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JIUTEPEC, Mexico (AFP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday called for financial help for developing countries to meet their climate change commitments under a new treaty set to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The Major Economies Forum (MEF), ...
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The Climate Change Accounting Loophole Must Be Closed

PR Newswire (press release), NY
Last week outside of New York City's Madison Square Garden , Deutsche Bank unveiled in plain view a meter of sorts on human-caused climate change, the great challenge of our age. The bank activated a 67-by-32-foot electronic billboard -- where some ...
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Tiahrt blocks EPA tax on livestock 'gas'

Pratt Tribune, KS
"Farmers and ranchers could soon face unprecedented taxes, excessive reporting requirements and hefty fees if the government decides to regulate livestock greenhouse gas sources," said Tiahrt in the press release. "By blocking the EPA from regulating ...
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Fewer Cow Blurbs Good for Mother Earth

Natural Products Marketplace, Arizona
The cow's new diet of flaxseed, alfalfa and grasses high in omega-3 fatty acids will cause the animals to burp less; those burps, made of intestinal methane, are the diary industry's biggest greenhouse gas contributors. About 2 percent of the country's ...
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Climate Change Bill Would Cost Households $175 a Year: CBO

CQPolitics.com, DC
House legislation to address climate change would cost households an average of $175 a year in 2020, the Congressional Budget Office said in a June 19 report. The bill, which could move to the House floor this summer, would limit emissions of ...
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New Priorities for Combatting Global Warming?

The CMC Forum, California
On the top of the environmental agenda, of course, is mitigating global warming by reducing carbon emissions in developed countries and slowing the rate of carbon emissions growth in developing countries. The United Nations Framework on Climate Change ...
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A Sea Change in China's Attitude Toward Carbon Capture

New York Times, United States
The Obama administration has made carbon capture cooperation with China a top goal in its bilateral climate change negotiations. Indeed, some experts argue that a significant Sino-US collaboration on CCS could be the key to unlocking entrenched climate ...
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Climate change debate running hot and cold

Southeast Farm Press
In a policy brief for climate change negotiators meeting in Bonn, Germany, in June, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations recommended that carbon sequestration begin with those who can afford it the least - poor farmers in ...
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Giant Madison Square climate counter helps make the invisible visible

Christian Science Monitor
Despite the name, the Carbon Counter counts more than just carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that gets all the headlines. It also includes other heat-trappers like methane, ozone, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons. Trying to calculate the varying ...
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Dairy Farmers Cut Cow "Emissions"

WCAX, VT
New research shows the gas cows belch is the dairy industry's biggest source of greenhouse gases. Now 15 Vermont farms are working with yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm to reduce those emissions. They've started feeding cows flaxseed, alfalfa and grasses ...
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A Primer on Global Warming: Dispelling CO2 Myths

The Heartland Institute, IL
If greenhouse gases were responsible for global temperature increases in recent decades, atmospheric physics require that higher levels of our atmosphere would show greater warming than lower levels. This did not happen during the 1978-1998 period of ...
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Turkey Twizzlers are GOOD for you and polar bears AREN'T dying out!

Daily Mail, UK
Climate change - the inexorable warming of Earth's atmosphere caused by mankind's addiction to fossil fuels - is to blame for what we are told will be a parched and inhospitable future. The polar ice caps will melt, causing sea levels to rise.
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Australian Emissions Trading Plan in Trouble

New York Times, United States
By MERAIAH FOLEY NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA - On the windswept streets of Newcastle, the world's largest coal port and a hub of Australian heavy industry, people get nervous when asked to give their opinions on climate change. A bird sat near an industrial ...
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Report confirms US climate change

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Climate change is not just a myth - it's happening right now in the United States, according to a global climate change report that an ASU professor helped author. Nancy Grimm, a life sciences and sustainability professor and the lead principal ...
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Global Warming Already Affecting US Climate

Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet, TX
Cover of a nearly 200-page report on global warming by various US agencies and researchers. The most comprehensive US government report on climate change to date says global warming has already altered the climate in parts of the country, ...
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Europeans React to the Prospect of a Major Climate Change Deal

Opposing Views, CA
By Greenpeace , Environmental Action - 12 Hours Ago As the EU heads of state gather in Brussels, copies of a fictional International Herald Tribune issued on the day after a positive outcome of the December 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen are ...
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US climate change impacts are forecast

United Press International
BERKELEY, Calif., June 18 (UPI) -- A report detailing the impact of climate change on the United States calls for decreased rainfall in southwestern states, with more 100-degree Fahrenheit days. Evan Mills and Michael Wehner at the US Department of ...
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Stubborn denial

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
Gary Herbert says he needs "conclusive" evidence that human-caused climate change is real. We're not sure how much evidence is needed to convince him, if, indeed, there ever could be enough. It seems his mind is made up by a political ideology that ...
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Plan to fight climate change will mean more coal burning

Charleston Gazette, WV
AP By Jim Tankersley WASHINGTON - Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming, but President Obama's plan to fight climate change would actually result in the nation burning more coal a decade ...
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Climate Change Effects on the United States

AZoCleantech, Australia
I think that much of the foot-dragging in addressing climate change is a reflection of the perception that climate change is way down the road in the future and it affects only remote parts of the world," she told a press conference on Tuesday.
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Letter: Bill is needed response to global warming

Billings Gazette,  USA
As a college student at the University of Montana, I'm very concerned about a warming climate and strongly believe we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has now taken a important step forward by endorsing ...
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Under House energy bill, coal won't be going away

Los Angeles Times, CA
A proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions makes concessions to the industry in effort to attract support from congressional Democrats who represent coal-dependent areas. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington -- Coal-fired power plants are the ...
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Climate change: 'We have run out of time'

newjerseynewsroom.com, NJ
BY JULIO GODOY ROME - New scientific research suggests that climate change is taking place faster than foreseen in studies considered so far, according to environmental experts at a forum on climate change called by the Global Legislators Organization ...
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The struggle against climate change will benefit the UK too

guardian.co.uk, UK
Hilary Benn announced the results of a study into the impacts of climate change in the UK (Now the weather forecast for the next 80 years or so, 19 June). One stark reminder of the UK's vulnerability to a changing climate is the fact that "summer ...
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Billboard Calculates Global Warming and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Opposing Views, CA
At 70 feet across, Deutsche Bank Asset Management's new "carbon counter" billboard is advertised as the world's first real-time calculator of global greenhouse gas emissions. This billboard, together with its web-based counterpart, were created as a ...
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Greener diet reduces dairy cows' methane burps

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The gas cows belch is the dairy industry's biggest greenhouse gas contributor, research shows, most of it emitted from the front and not the back end of the cow. "I just figured a cow was a cow and they were going to do whatever they were going to do ...
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Guest commentary: A response to a climate change commentary

Naples Daily News, FL
A recent guest commentary by Michael Mogil ran under the headline "Climate change reconsidered: Time to question beliefs." Our response is that for serious climate scientists, and concerned citizens, it has always been appropriate to question the ...
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Global warming, hallelujah

Examiner.com
I highly recommend a quick flip through the comments to anyone who wonders if the debate on global warming is actually settled. It is obviously not. It has already been compared to the works of Pravda by one scientist, so I won't pile on any more.
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BATTLING CLIMATE CHANGE REQUIRES AN ARMY OF TECHNOLOGIES, FUEL ...

Green Energy News, MD
The Obama Administration has released a study best described by its title, "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States." The study makes it clear that the climate in the US (as it is elsewhere) is already changing: For better or worse every ...
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Obama using scare tactic to pass cap and trade

Examiner.com
Remember when Al Gore referred to the condition as "global warming?" Then once that treat proved to be wrong, he now refers to it as "climate change." Hard to be wrong when you in clued ALL weather changes now isn't it? "Global Climate Change Impacts ...
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Soren Jesperson: Act now against warming

Steamboat Pilot, CO
Congress soon will vote on a historic bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill) that will help protect our communities and natural resources from the effects of global warming. That is why we need US Rep.
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Don L. Blankenship Invites Dr. James Hansen To Debate Global ...

WOWK, WV
In response, Don L. Blankenship issued the following statement to Dr. Hansen, inviting him to a public debate about global warming and the West Virginia economy: "While I don't recall anyone inviting out of state environmental protestors from San ...
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Vt. farmers cut cows' emissions by altering diets

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The gas cows belch is the dairy industry's biggest greenhouse gas contributor, research shows, most of it emitted from the front and not the back end of the cow. "I just figured a cow was a cow and they were going to do whatever they were going to do ...
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MOULE: Obama's climate report

Rochester City Newspaper, NY
By Jeremy Moule Comments (1) This week, the Obama White House released its first major climate report, and let me say that it's nice to see the federal government acknowledge global warming. The report outlines the impacts of climate change nationally ...
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President Releases 'Game Changer' on Climate

Courthouse News Service, CA
By NICK WILSON WASHINGTON (CN) - The White House released a chilling "game changer" climate report Tuesday that details the flooding, ocean acidification, and extreme heat that have already been caused by global warming, and that will intensify at an ...
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