Obama Administration releases overview of budget request for ...

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The goal, the document says, is to cut greenhouse gas emissions 14% from 2005 levels by 2020 and approximately 83% from those levels by 2050, which mirror the more aggressive approaches to greenhouse gas reductions being considered in Congress.
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Global Warming To Be Stopped By Giant ‘Sun Shade’?

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Arizona (ChattahBox) - Scientists at the University of Arizona have released their theory on a 100000 square mile shade that would block harmful rays, and so solve the global warming crisis. The 'shade' would be made of millions of mirrors, ...
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WHY THE OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN WON’T WORK

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Washington, DC - President Obama's proposed cap-and-trade plan for reducing greenhouse gases will not achieve the reductions quickly enough to prevent devastating climate change, according to an analysis posted today by Public Employees for ...
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Ombudsman: Flaw in Will’s Ice Assertions

New York Times, United States
From my days camped on the sea ice around the North Pole to my time in the country's leading labs tracking polar trends with satellites, I've not met a single scientist focused on sea ice who would point to a single year's changes as evidence of ...
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India Impressed By Obama’s Stand on Climate Change But Demands ...

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While lauding President Obama for making climate change a central issue in his administration's policy the Indian government demanded that more needs to be done on the part of developed nations, especially in regard to setting robust emission reduction ...
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NEWS: Are Belching Sheep to Blame for Global Warming?

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Scientists say that the release of methane is a major contributor to global warming, so what can sheep do to reduce their carbon footprint and perhaps improve their table manners at the same time?
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Obama’s Greenhouse Gas Gamble

New York Times, United States
By JOHN M. BRODER WASHINGTON - In proposing mandatory caps on the greenhouse gases linked to global warming and a system for auctioning permits to companies that emit them, President Obama is taking on a huge political and economic challenge.
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Risks of Global Warming Rising: Is It Too Late to Reverse Course?

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Schneider and his colleagues updated a graph, dubbed the "burning embers," that is designed to map the risks of damage from global warming. The initial version of the graph [left] drawn in 2001 had the risks of climate change beginning to appear after ...
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Does bitter winter weather refute climate-change claims?

Christian Science Monitor, MA
"You can't tell much about the climate or where it's headed by focusing on a particularly frigid day, or season, or year, even," writes Eoin O'Carroll in an online blog for The Christian Science Monitor. "It's all in the long-term trends," concurs ...
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US urged to lead China into carbon emission cuts

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By KT Arasu WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The United States should take the lead in reducing carbon emissions to be able to enlist China in the global campaign to curb global warming, an expert told an annual USDA conference on Friday.
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The EPA, the Budget and Global Warming

Heritage.org, DC
President Obama released his budget blueprint yesterday. Titled, "The New Era of Responsibility," the full 140-page blueprint, broken down by department, can be found here. The Environmental Protection Agency's budget, which balloons from $7.8 billion ...
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George Will Doubles Down on Global Warming Distortions

Common Dreams (press release), ME
WASHINGTON - February 27 - In his new column, George Will doubles down on distortions made in his widely criticized global warming column from earlier this month. Lashing out at critics, Will once again misuses sea ice data to falsely suggest it ...
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Obama's clean-oil push could threaten oilsands

Canada.com, Canada
Obama has cast himself as a champion of green energy during his White House campaign, proposing a national low-carbon fuel standard that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 180 million metric tons by 2020. He has also promised to invest $150 ...
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IPCC chief says climate change unequivocal but is challenged at ...

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by Tony Hake, Denver Weather Examiner In testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Dr. RK Pachauri, head of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said, "warming of the climate system is ...
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Princeton physicist tells Congress global warming fears are

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Award-winning physicist Dr. Will Happer coined the phrase "CO2 famine" and branded claims about man-made global warming as "mistaken" today at a Congressional hearing. Happer, who has published over 200 scientific papers, made his thoughts known during ...
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Overhaul of climate programs proposed

San Diego Union Tribune, CA
A panel of top analysts, including two from San Diego, yesterday proposed a sweeping overhaul of federal climate change programs to help the public better understand global warming and move quickly to deal with its effects. The blueprint, published by ...
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World faces last chance to avoid fatal warming: EU

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World leaders from about 190 countries meet in Copenhagen in December to try to agree a global framework to replace the Kyoto Protocol on fighting global warming, which expires in 2012. "It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created.
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Seeking Influence: Number of Climate Change Lobbyists Tripled in ...

GreenBiz, CA
WASHINGTON, DC -- As climate change legislation moved higher up on the Congressional agenda last year, so too did the numbers of lobbyists sent to Capitol Hill to influence the debate. In 2008, some 770 companies and industries groups spent more than ...
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Does Obama's Budget Go Far Enough On Global Warming?

The Plank on TNR.com, DC
Ooookay, let's scrunch up our sleeves and talk accounting for a bit. (Wait! Don't click away!) As mentioned earlier, the White House's newly unveiled budget proposal plans to raise $646 billion in tax revenue between 2012 and 2019 by auctioning off ...
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Polluters pay in Obama's 'green' budget

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The innovative program -- similar to one already in place in Europe -- would rev up US efforts against global warming by reducing the output of carbon dioxide and other polluting gases, while raising direly-needed revenue. The administration's proposed ...
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Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Difficult Sell

Hoosier Ag Today, IN
A mandatory cap on the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, a key part of President Obama's domestic agenda, may be hard to sell on Capitol Hill. The cap would be designed to generate revenue for the Federal Government - and at the same time address the ...
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Climate of Change

New York Times, United States
After years of denial and delay by its predecessor, the Obama administration is signaling that it's ready to take on climate change. And these new priorities are laid out in a document whose clarity and plausibility seem almost incredible to those of ...
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Australia to unveil carbon-trading legislation

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Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said Friday that she will unveil legislation on March 10 to create an Australian carbon emissions trading scheme designed to tax climate-changing pollution starting July 2010. "The longer we delay in making this ...
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Climate change: chance for US-China cooperation

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BEIJING (AP) - With climate change emerging as a key issue for both the United States and China, the two countries have a new platform for cooperation and an opportunity to strengthen their often contentious relationship, a leading China expert said ...
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Ice in east Antarctica a bigger threat long term

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Scambos and Tom Neumann, leader of that joint US-Norwegian "traverse" from the South Pole to this Norwegian outpost, commented Wednesday after the release in Geneva of a report summarizing initial findings from the 2007-2009 International Polar Year ...
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Governor Schwarzenegger Applauds President Obama’s Budget Proposal ...

Imperial Valley News, CA
There is far more economic opportunity worldwide in fighting global warming than there is economic risk. "Now the hard work begins-to design a program that promotes the environment and economy and preserves the innovation and principles established by ...
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Tories in sprint to match Obama on climate change

Toronto Star,  Canada
OTTAWA-Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is breathing a sigh of relief that US President Barack Obama is serious about climate change, but the pace of change in Washington could leave him struggling to catch his breath.
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Human Dimension Needed in US Climate Research

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WASHINGTON, DC, February 26, 2009 (ENS) - The US government's Climate Change Science Program should expand its agenda to integrate research in the natural and social sciences that will enable the nation to tackle problems communities actually face, ...
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Obama’s Climate Rip-off

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In his 10-year budget released this week, the President proposed a so-called cap-and-trade scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Under the proposal, 100 percent of the permits to emit greenhouse gases would be auctioned to coal and natural ...
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Forum focuses on Western tacks on climate change

Hays Daily News, KS
By JUDITH KOHLER AP Writer DENVER (AP) -- Leaders from states that developed climate change policies and pushed renewable energy in the absence of a national plan want to be heard as a new federal administration takes the lead on the issue.
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Study Finds Unprecedented Growth in Climate Change Lobbying

Democracy Now, NY
In the past year, some 770 companies hired over 2000 climate change lobbyists and spent an estimated $90 million to influence federal policy on climate change. We speak to the report's lead author, Marianne Lavelle. [includes rush transcript] Marianne ...
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Report: Companies should disclose water use

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On Monday, scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned climate change will increase the risk of droughts, heat waves and floods if average global temperatures rise by just 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. "Climate change is excerbating ...
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First Lady Talks About Pollution and Climate Change at the EPA

New York Times, United States
There, she told hundreds of employees that they were in the forefront of the Obama administration's efforts to clean up polluted communities and combat climate change. "You ensure that the water we drink is safe, that the air we breathe is clean, ...
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NASA's Chief Climate Scientist Stirs Controversy With Call for ...

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By Joshua Rhett Miller AP NASA's chief climate scientist is in hot water with colleagues and at least one lawmaker after calling on citizens to engage in civil disobedience at what is being billed as the largest public protest of global warming ever in ...
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Obama Plan Has $79 Billion From Cap-and-Trade in 2012

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Representative Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the Obama plan would help create "an artificial market" for carbon emissions, one that won't necessarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Drilling Down on the Budget

New York Times, United States
The White House estimates that the plan, built around a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions, will produce $150 billion over 10 years beginning in 2012 to finance renewable energy projects and another $65 billion a year to pay for ...
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Obama budget includes cap and trade revenues

The Hill, DC
Obama's climate policy marks a significant shift from the approach by the Bush administration, which favored dedicating money to research ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but did not impose any hard and fast caps on industries.
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Knoll Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 10.4%, Two Years Ahead ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- --Knoll (NYSE: KNL) today announced that it has reached its 2010 goal of an additional 2% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions over its Phase 1 results as part of its program with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).
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Media must highlight climate change, say researchers

Cordis News, Belgium
In spite of the media's lack of serious coverage, important research results on climate change are being published all the time. The latest findings from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008, a global research effort focused on the Antarctic ...
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Antarctica: a meeting of polar and political minds

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But it caught the ear of the visiting politicians, who are this year weighing a grand new global deal for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions to avert the worst of climate change. "It's important to hear the latest science," said Hilary Benn, ...
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UN Scientists:; Climate Change Evidence Unequivocal

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The report, compiled by scientists from more than 60 countries, also says that the shrinking of polar and Greenland ice is fueling a rise in sea levels and the potential for dramatic changes in the global climate system. The authors say the Arctic ...
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US-China ties needed to fight climate change

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BEIJING (AP) - A top China expert said Thursday that the fight against climate change will give the United States and China a chance to strengthen an often tempestuous relationship by working together on solutions. The world's two largest emitters of ...
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Greenwash: Why 'clean coal' is the ultimate climate change oxymoron

guardian.co.uk, UK
The people who told us for years that climate change was a myth now say it's all true - but something called 'clean coal' can fix it. This is pure and utter greenwash, says Fred Pearce No clean-coal plant that buries carbon has yet been built.
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Center for Public Integrity Reports Boom in Climate Change Lobbying

The BLT, DC
The number of lobbyists working to influence policies regarding climate change has exploded over the past five years, increasing by as much as 300 percent, according to a new report by the Center for Public Integrity. The report, titled "The Climate ...
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Washington Post Staff Writers

Washington Post, United States
A mandatory cap on the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, which President Obama embraced on Tuesday as central to his domestic agenda, would be designed to generate badly needed revenue for the government while addressing arguably the world's most ...
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NASA official: Rebuilding global warming rocket possible

SmartBrief, DC
A $280 million NASA mission crashed when a rocket set to explore carbon dioxide levels on Earth crashed in the ocean near Antarctica yesterday. Scientists say the US has fallen behind other countries in environmental satellite efforts.
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Scientists find bigger than expected polar ice melt

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The frozen and often inaccessible polar regions have long been regarded as some of the most sensitive barometers of environmental change and global warming because of their influence on the world's oceans and atmosphere. Preliminary findings from the ...
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Scientist: Global Warming Evidence, Claims Exaggerated

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Michaels, who is also a state climatologist and professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, discussed the research published in his new book, "Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know.
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Australia seeks to cut animal gas emissions

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Methane gas from livestock flatulence accounts for about 12 percent of the country's annual greenhouse gas emissions, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said as he launched the 26.8 million dollar (17.4 million US dollar) project.
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After Obama appeal, Congress renews efforts on climate change

Economic Times, India
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers this week took up the issue of climate change and how to address it after President Barack Obama made an impassioned plea for action on fighting global warming. But even as the Senate and House of Representatives convened ...
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