Pen Hadow: Because it’s there... but for how long?

Independent, UK
There is no other way to discover how fast the polar ice, vital to the planet, is melting. Cole Moretonin conversation with Pen Hadow Frustrated at being kept indoors, Pen Hadow went for a run the other day. No big deal, except that he is currently in ...
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Growing Arctic sea ice likely to melt, says scientist

CBC.ca, Canada
Canadian and US researchers who studied the fracture said it was more evidence of accelerated climate change in the northern polar region. With scientists predicting ice-free summers as soon as 2013, government and industry interest in the Arctic has ...
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Weather Channel founder continues to set bad example for global ...

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Currently an on-air forecaster for KUSI-TV in San Diego, Coleman has made a name for himself with his contrarian views of global warming. He also claims that The Weather Channel is to blame for promoting a global-warming agenda designed by lobbyists.
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Global warming? Cleveland and Ohio are colder as the rest of world ...

The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH
Global warming? Cleveland and Ohio are colder as the rest of world warms in January Tracy Boulian/The Plain DealerWhile Cleveland saw colder-than-normal temperatures last month, most of the rest of the Earth got warmer, national climatologists say.
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In China, Clinton Focuses on Climate Change

New York Times, United States
The Obama administration hopes to make climate change the centerpiece of a broader, more vigorous engagement with China. For Mrs. Clinton, the two-day stop in Beijing at the end of a week-long Asian tour, represents an effort to put her own stamp on a ...
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Regulating carbon? Either way, a ‘world of hurt’

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It can't help the oil and gas industries that the EPA is considering enforcing the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that designates CO2 a greenhouse gas under The Clean Air Act; but maybe later in the year, Q3 and Q4, solar may begin to see a resurgence.
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US, China pledge to coordinate on climate change, economy

AFP
BEIJING (AFP) - The United States and China have put differences over human rights aside and pledged to work more closely in tackling the global economic crisis and climate change. Giving hope for a new era of co-operation between the world powers, ...
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Don't judge states on wealth, emissions-climate envoy

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By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Judging small, rich island nations purely on their wealth and emissions is unfair in climate change negotiations, Singapore's climate envoy said on Saturday, ...
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Elderly May Feel Brunt of Global Warming

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20, 2009 -- There's now another reason to be concerned about global warming. A new study shows that when temperatures rise in the summer, there are more hospitalizations for respiratory problems, especially among elderly people.
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AP Interview: Reid pushing for climate change bill

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also has cited "a sense of urgency" in addressing climate change, adding: "We cannot afford another year of delay." The chairman of the House committee charged with crafting a bill has promised to provide one to ...
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NASA Helps Produce Hip-Hop Climate Change Rap To End All Climate ...

Ecorazzi, NY
This latest effort to introduce kids to the serious nature of climate change is admirable - but we doubt you'll make it through the whole thing. It comes to us courtesy of POLAR-PALOOZA, a multimedia initiative supported by the US National Science ...
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Hashem Akbari's cool anti-global-warming plan

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
If Hashem Akbari's plan to stave off global warming is realized, it will come one rooftop at a time. Akbari, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a group of fellow geoengineers who are trying to counter the effects of ...
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Pen Hadow: I will give up Arctic exploration after climate change ...

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
By Matthew Moore Speaking from his preparation base in Resolute, Canada, Mr Hadow said the 620 mile (1000km) trek to gather crucial climate change data was his effort to "pay his dues" to the region before stepping back to spend more time with his wife ...
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Germany opens new Antarctic research base

Hindu, India
... a new euro40 million ($50 million) research station in Antarctica for scientists examining climate change. Research Minister Annette Schavan says the inauguration of the Neumayer III research station is a ``a great day for German polar research.
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Can Citizen Action Stop Climate Change?

Fast Company
BY Anya Kamenetz Fri Feb 20, 2009 at 1:25 AM Next week, 10000 students and youth will converge on the Capitol for a massive lobby day to demand action on climate change and green jobs. On March 2, thousands of people have pledged to commit nonviolent ...
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Coal industry told to prepare for climate change bill

West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WV
By Jessica Lilly February 20, 2009 �� The coal industry stands at a crossroads when it comes to climate change. During the West Virginia Coal Association Symposium, both Senator Jay Rockefeller and Governor Joe Manchin told industry officials they can't ...
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Carbon Capture for the Oil Sands?

New York Times, United States
But Mr. Harper suggested that the two countries would cooperate on research and development of a technology which his government has long promoted as the solution to the greenhouse gas problems associated with Alberta's oil sands industry: carbon ...
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Global Warming Hitting Russia Harder than Any Other Country ...

Georgiandaily, NY
Vienna, February 19 - The Russian Federation will be more profoundly and negatively affected by global warming over the next 40 years than will any other country, a projection that Russian experts and officials say make it critical that Moscow take the ...
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EPA Poised To Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Environmental Leader, CO
In what could be a major boon to cleantech industries, the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas, The New York Times reports. Impacting transportation, manufacturing and the way utilities ...
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Reid: Senate to take up climate change this year

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There is widespread agreement that the climate change issue must be addressed. But there remains sharp disagreement on just how to do it. Many Republicans argue that the Democrats' plan to cap the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming may be too ...
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So Climate Change Is Real, Now What?

AlterNet, CA
By Todd Neff, Daily Climate. Posted February 19, 2009. With the human role in climate change largely settled, there's now a need to shift from discovery to mitigation, solutions and policy. If the study of climate change were a Hollywood movie, ...
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Indonesia tells Clinton US must lead on climate change

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By Muklis Ali JAKARTA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged US leadership on climate change in a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday, as she visited to boost US ties with Southeast Asia and the ...
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Climate change on table for Clinton in China

USA Today
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY BEIJING - A blanket of snow covering China's capital will provide a backdrop for US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she arrives Friday for talks on climate change and wraps up her week-long Asian trip.
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Japan: Drastically Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Political Affairs Magazine, NY
By Akahata The government has finally begun to move to set Japan's mid-term goal of greenhouse gas emissions cuts to be achieved by 2020. A government panel on global warming will examine six plans aimed at cutting emissions by 7-25 percent from the ...
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This Week In Petroleum

Resource Investor, VA
Glen Sweetnam, Director of the International Economic and Greenhouse Gas Division of EIA's Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting (OIAF), will moderate a session covering both where supply is likely to come from under these scenarios and what ...
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The Politics of Global Warming

CBS News, NY
Now that the Environmental Protection Agency is making noise about regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases under the Clean Air Act it's as good a time as any to focus a bit on the tedious (and complicated) relationship between executive ...
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Australia prepares for launch of carbon futures

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Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong has indicated the government will release draft legislation for the ETS as early as next month and aims to have the package before parliament mid-year. Australia has promised to introduce carbon trading in July ...
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Obama Heads to Ottawa for First Foreign Trip as President

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"Any kind of special exemption or protection that would be given for greenhouse gas regulations, especially for the expanding the tar sands industry, just seem to be totally at odds with the commitments that both of our countries have made to fight ...
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Checking Climate Conditions Is OCO's Goal Once Launched

SatNews Publishers, CA
The spacecraft's final polar orbit will be 438 miles. OCO is NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate.
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China says willing to work with US on climate change

Space Daily, CA
China said Thursday it was willing to work with the United States on addressing climate change, saying such efforts were vital to fighting global warming. "Strengthening cooperation on climate change is in the interest of the two countries and ...
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Is Economic Recovery Even Possible on a Planet Headed for ...

AlterNet, CA
To be exact, they are now pouring vast quantities of stored carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas considered largely responsible for global warming, into the atmosphere. In fact, everything's been burning there. Huge sheets of flame, possibly aided and ...
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Clinton, Indonesia Need To Act On Climate: Environmentalists

Sin Chew Jit Poh, Malaysia
JAKARTA: Top greenhouse gas emitters the United States and Indonesia should use US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the country to take action against climate change, environmentalists said Thursday. Around a dozen members of activist ...
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Al Gore Admits Making Up Global Warming

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In a moment of honesty following years of lies, the former Vice-President admitted that global warming was just a clever ruse aimed to put himself back in the spotlight. "After losing the 2000 election, I felt unwanted and unloved," explained Gore to a ...
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Bigger trees helping fight against climate change

guardian.co.uk, UK 
Trees across the tropics are getting bigger and offering help in the fight against climate change, scientists have discovered.
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Meat and Global Warming

New York Times, United States
By Mark Bittman A report from Science News(via Food Times) argues that beef produces 19 kilograms of CO2 for every kilogram served; that grass-fed beef is worse - yes, worse - for global warming than feed-lot beef; and that for every percentage ...
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Equity Firm and Environmental Group Make Joint Climate Gains

New York Times, United States 
The alliance was aimed at creating tools to measure environmental performance, including energy efficiency and greenhouse-gas emissions, across the buyout ...
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Alcoa Ahead of Schedule on Greenhouse Gas Reductions

Environmental Leader, CO 
Alcoa, the world's leading producer of aluminum, continues to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of its global aluminum production processes, ...
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G20 should send clear signal on climate change-Denmark

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By Adrian Croft LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A G20 economic summit in April can help pave the way to a climate change deal by sending a signal that the ...
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National Academies to Host Climate Change Conference

SustainableBusiness.com, NY 
Top climate change experts will meet with members of Congress and the Obama administration, as well as with business leaders and representatives of ...
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Russia: global warming to cause droughts, floods

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MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare ...
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George Will of Washington Post changes the numbers on global warming

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by Karen Harper, Birmingham Progressive Politics Examiner Last weekend, George Will, conservative columnist and naysayer on global warming wrote a piece ...
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Global Warming Speeding Up: Scientist

Daily Green 
As feedback loops accelerate global warming, the Obama Administration steps up with early efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.
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World Bank warns of climate change in Andes

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LIMA, Peru (AP) - Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes' tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precious ...
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Ag problem more than just a lot of hot air

Pontiac Daily Leader, IL 
New York Farm Bureau assigned a price tag to the cost of greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA in a release last month. "The tax for dairy cows could be $175 ...
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• Work together on climate change

Guelph Mercury, Canada 
Climate change should top the agenda of tomorrow's meeting in Ottawa between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, ...
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Memo to Obama 2: Confront Global Warming

New West, MT 
The US is behind in grappling with it, but global warming could spark a massive conservation movement, Mike Dombeck says. By David Frey, 2-17-09 New West: ...
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An $80 Billion Start

New York Times, United States 
... investments in clean-energy technologies and an effort to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions to unlock private investment on an enormous scale.
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Alberta’s oilsands create ‘big carbon footprint,’ Obama says

Canada.com, Canada 
Obama says Alberta's oilsands "creates a big carbon footprint" and presents a challenge as Canada and the United States seek to reduce greenhouse gas ...
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America's Climate Choices: The Process and The Summit

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Climate change experts will meet with members of Congress and the Obama administration, as well as with business leaders and representatives of ...
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Business group bashes Western Climate Initiative

Los Angeles Times, CA 
The climate initiative, which is considered a model for broader cap-and-trade legislation now being written in Congress, seeks to slash greenhouse gas ...
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