Jan 24, 2009

Is Global Warming Not a Big Concern?

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By Bret Baier A new Pew Research Center poll shows that global warming is at the bottom of the list - when it comes to the public's top priorities in 2009.
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Jan 23, 2009

Obama's climate change goals fall short, IPCC head says

Seattle Post Intelligencer 
RK Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the massive (and somewhat bureaucratic) panel of scientists that puts together ...
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IPCC Chief Calls Out Obama for Weak Greenhouse Gas Goals

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By 2020, the EU plans to reduce its own greenhouse gas pollution to 80 percent of 1990 levels. Though Obama's long-term emissions goals - 20 percent of 1990 ...
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New EPA head makes emissions reductions a top priority

Boston Globe, United States 
By Erin Ailworth, Globe staff Lisa Jackson, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's administrator-designate, said today that reducing greenhouse gas ...
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Ken Livingstone attacks Labour's 'absymal' climate change record

guardian.co.uk, UK 
The former London mayor Ken Livingstone has rounded on the government over its "abysmal" record on climate change. Livingstone expressed his dismay at a ...
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Turnbull promises better, cheaper plan to tackle climate change

The Canberra Times, Australia 
BY DANIELLE CRONIN Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull will today unveil a three-pronged plan to tackle climate change, which goes ''well beyond the Rudd ...
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Public concern over climate change waning

The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR 
And critics of the scientific consensus that climate change is primarily caused by human activities will certainly say the public is right to feel that way.
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Gore to testify before Congress on climate change

Washington Energy Services, WA 
Former Vice President Al Gore will reportedly testify before Congress next week on climate change. According to a report on Boston.com's Political ...
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First 100 Days: Obama’s first climate change target

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There is no better place to start than by establishing a national greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles based on California's landmark clean car ...
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Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns

New York Times, United States 
The findings are somewhat at odds with President Obama, who has put a high priority on staving off global warming and vowed Tuesday in his Inaugural Address ...
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Satellites confirm half-century of West Antarctic warming

Hindu, India 
With funding from the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, Steig and colleagues set out to reconstruct Antarctica's recent past.
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Pew: Global Warming Dead Last Among Public Priorities

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It's also time to stop focusing narrowly on remote polar impacts, looming environmental disaster, or symbols such as polar bears. These examplars are either ...
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Gore to make climate change case to US Senate

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US vice president and Nobel prize winner Al Gore will testify on climate change to the US Senate next week ahead of a critical ...
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Japan launches rocket with greenhouse-gas probe

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TOKYO (AP) - Japan fired the world's first greenhouse-gas monitoring satellite into space Friday, a launch deemed crucial in the country's quest to compete ...
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Jan 22, 2009

O'Malley Bill Would Mandate 25 Percent Cut in Carbon Emissions

Washington Post Blogs, DC 
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2009 would require carbon emissions to be reduced statewide by 25 percent by 2020. About half of the targets could be ...
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US: EPA fuss over livestock gas is hot air

FreshPlaza, Netherlands 
The greenhouse gas emissions released from livestock are primarily methane from both solid waste and also flatulence. I won't deny that agriculture as an ...
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Buried in the Bush

Grist Magazine, WA 
... report on Arctic climate, prepared with information from eight Canadian scientists, has concluded that the recent rapid warming of polar temperatures ...
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Are Scientists Overselling Climate Models?

Washington Post, United States 
According to a 2007 report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of hundreds of scientists that assesses and reports on ...
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NOAA Prepares to Launch New Polar-Orbiting Satellite for Climate ...

NOAA, DC 
A new NOAA polar-orbiting environmental satellite, set to launch next month, will support NOAA's weather and ocean forecasts, including long-range climate ...
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Seasons arriving two days earlier, study says

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While greenhouse gases seem to be the cause of global warming, human activity may also be prompting this shift in the seasons, Alexander R. Stine, ...
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Public Yawns At Climate Change

The Plank on TNR.com, DC 
Back in 2006, recall, we had the hubbub around Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and, later, the release of the fourth IPCC report on climate change (which ...
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New study suggests massive tree die-off likely due to global warming

The Canadian Press 
Scientists found they've all experienced warming temperatures and are now losing trees faster than they're gaining them. Researchers suggest that while the ...
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Gore to talk to Congress on global warming

Boston Globe, United States 
Former Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore will testify to Congress next week on global warming, Senator John F. Kerry announced this morning.
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UA starts website linking social networks and climate change

ABC15.com (KNXV-TV), AZ 
The Southwest Climate Change Network Website is a virtual community in which scientists, decision makers and the public share information on climate change ...
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Arctic explorers ready 'to swim' to North Pole

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom 
We estimate that up to 15 per cent of our time - over 150 hours - will be spent in the sea in immersion suits with polar boots and Arctic clothing ...
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Searching for Smoking Guns

Kansas City Star, MO 
There are rarely just two polar-opposite sides [in science], but rather a spectrum of potential outcomes, often accompanied by a history of scientific ...
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EU to propose $200 bln climate tax on rich nations

Reuters UK, UK 
Rich countries should commit to binding limits on their greenhouse gas emissions through 2020. They could then pay a set price for every tonne of emissions, ...
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Climate satellite set for launch

BBC News, UK 
The Kyoto Protocol came into force in February 2005 is a comprehensive set of rules for reducing and restricting greenhouse gas emissions.
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97% of climatologists say global warming is occurring and caused ...

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A new poll among 3146 earth scientists found that 90 percent believe global warming is real, while 82 percent agree that human activity been a significant ...
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Flat(ulence) tax?

ReporterNews.com, TX 
Rick Krause, a Farm Bureau spokesman, said the way the Clean Air Act is written, it could include the regulation of the greenhouse gas methane and encompass ...
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Obama Urgent on Warming, Public Cool

New York Times, United States 
According to the survey of 1503 adults, global warming, on its own, ranks last out of 20 surveyed issues. Here's the list from top to bottom, ...
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How Green Is My Orange?

New York Times, United States 
Citrus groves use a lot of nitrogen fertilizer, which requires natural gas to make and can turn into a potent greenhouse gas when it is spread on fields.
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Scientists say global warming is real

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21 (UPI) -- Despite ongoing harsh winter conditions in North America and Europe, a survey finds a consensus among scientists that global warming continues ...
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Seasons change -- earlier than before, study says

Los Angeles Times, CA 
The change coincides with the rise in global temperatures, which could suggest a link to human-induced global warming, said Alexander Stine, ...
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Alta. scientists to track greenhouse gases from space

Calgary Herald,  Canada 
EDMONTON - Canadian scientists are taking part in a worldwide research project that will, for the first time, use a satellite to measure greenhouse-gas ...
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Winds of change: Blair calls for new climate change agreement

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Tony Blair has urged Gordon Brown and other leaders not to allow the financial crisis to get in the way of the fight against climate change.
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Jan 21, 2009

Schwarzenegger asks Obama for tailpipe rules

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't waiting to press the Obama administration on one of California's top priorities - regulating greenhouse gas emissions from ...
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Global warming supercomputer emits as much CO2 as 2400 homes

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by Tony Hake, Denver Weather Examiner In a bit of an embarrassment for the UK Met Office (the equivalent to our National Weather Service), it was discovered ...
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Blumenauer Gets Spot On Climate Change Committee

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It'sa two-year-old committee focused on climate change. Blumenauer says he's impressed that the Obama Administration has put people with climate change ...
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Breathe Deep the Green Winds of Change, Just in Time

Huffington Post, NY 
Whereas atmospheric stabilization targets in the range of 450 ppm of CO2 were until recently considered adequate to prevent catastrophic climate change, ...
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Popular termite fumigant is also a greenhouse gas

Los Angeles Times, CA 
According to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of California-Irvine, sulfuryl fluoride is a potent greenhouse gas that remains in the ...
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Canada debates increased polar bear protection

Times of Malta, Malta 
"Climate change is important, but climate change is a global issue," he said. A 2007 report by the US Geological Survey said two thirds of the world's polar ...
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Testimony instead of votes on global warming

Arkansas News, AR 
Dr. Richard Ford, an environmental economist at UALR and member of the Governor's Commission on Global Warming, had originally requested the hearing.
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Seasons Arriving 2 Days Earlier, Study Says

Washington Post, United States 
While greenhouse gases seem to be the cause of global warming, human activity may also be prompting this shift in the seasons, Alexander R. Stine, ...
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Let's all do our part fo add to global warming

Bloomington Pantagraph,  USA 
mdorf4, the overwhelming proof of global warming has been building since the sixties and is now widely accepted by climatologists. You wacky right-wingers ...
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Global Warming and Renewable Energy Highlighted in Inaugural Address

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... president Barack Obama made it clear in his inaugural address today that the US needs to tackle global warming and switch to renewable sources of energy ...
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Councils 'shun recycling scheme'

BBC News, UK 
The scheme was subsequently changed to a pilot project - under the terms of the 2008 Climate Change Act - with five councils given the opportunity to take ...
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Bryce urges swift global action on climate change

ABC Online, Australia 
Governor-General Quentin Bryce has urged world leaders to work together and act swiftly on climate change, calling it a huge challenge facing humanity.
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New signs of climate change: shifting seasons, warmer Antarctica

Chicago Tribune, United States 
But scientists say the finding, one of two papers released today on climate change, is actually a warning sign. Together, the studies bolster the argument ...
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Germany hails creation of global climate-change agency

Space Daily, CA 
Germany is pushing for it to be based in Bonn -- also the home of the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body tasked ...
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