Plan B: scientists get radical in bid to halt global warming ...

Times Online, UK
Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre, the government's leading global warming research centre, recently used the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, one of the world's most respected academic journals, ...
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Brazil and the US Should Lead on Climate Change

Huffington Post, NY
Still, to earn a position of global leadership in climate negotiations, Brazil must push even further at home and abroad. First, it is imperative that Brazil achieve a significant reduction in the annual rate of deforestation in the Amazon.
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85% of the Amazon rainforest may be lost due to global warming

Mongabay.com
Warming climate could decimate up to 85 percent of the Amazon rainforest by 2150, according to a new computer model. The study, to be published in Nature Geoscience by researchers from the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre, found that even a 1-degree rise ...
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World will agree new climate deal, says Al Gore

guardian.co.uk, UK
They're seeing the complete disappearance of the polar ice caps right before their eyes in just a few years," he says. "They're seeing the new US administration. They're seeing Gordon Brown and David Cameron both advocating dramatic changes here in the ...
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Global-Warming Skeptics Raise A Storm In New York

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic
By Nikola Krastev NEW YORK -- These are tough times to be a skeptic about global warming. Two years ago, an international United Nations panel concluded with near certainty that human activity plays a role in the planet's rising temperatures.
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The Coming Global Cooling Crisis followed by the Global Drying Crisis

Kansas City Star, MO
By Grant Martin, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2009 Has anyone asked what happens if we are "successful" with our efforts to combat Global Warming? Or have we already assumed we will fail and the best we can do is only slow it down? ...
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Canada extends conciliatory hand to Russia

Calgary Herald,  Canada
"We recognize that climate change is having a disproportionate impact on the Arctic and its inhabitants, though experts do not agree on the pace of this dramatic change," Cannon said. "Some experts, for example, predicted recently that the entire ...
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Driving Across Northwest Passage to make Polar History

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
The team, led by Mars Institute scientist Dr. Pascal Lee, has a dual goal of studying climate change on Earth and advancing the human exploration of the Moon and Mars. The mission is an integral part of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) on Devon Island, ...
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Americans cool as activists cry wolf over global warming

The Daily Citizen, GA
So you wouldn't have heard that global warming is as uncertain as those who would fix it. You probably have heard, however, about the predicted global warming-related calamities, including rising seas, tropical disease epidemics, species extinction, ...
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DEP Chief Gina McCarthy Picked For EPA Climate-Change Post

Hartford Courant, United States
By RINKER BUCK In the first departure of a Connecticut official for the Obama administration, Gina McCarthy, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, has been nominated for a major position in Washington handling climate change ...
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Northrop Grumman's Robert Burke Calls for Development of a Global ...

MSNBC
In a speech outlining the challenges the world faces in dealing with global climate change, Burke said climate change is one of the most pressing and controversial issues of our times. Understanding the changes the Earth is experiencing, he said, ...
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Buoyed by US, UN chief sees climate deal this year

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By JOHN HEILPRIN UNITED NATIONS - The UN chief predicted Thursday that a new global climate deal - with US backing - will be reached this year. "With US leadership, in partnership with the United Nations, we can and will reach a climate change deal ...
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Climate change takes center stage in Congress

Reuters
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With climate change legislation a top US priority for Democrats this year, lawmakers began zeroing in on Thursday on ways to ease the financial burden it could impose on the poor, especially in the midst of a ...
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Push to Reduce Greenhouse Gasses Would Put a Price on Emitting ...

Washington Post, United States
Most lawmakers and climate activists embrace an approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions known as cap-and-trade, which would set and gradually lower a limit on nationwide emissions while letting companies buy and sell rationing allowances.
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EPA to Require Greenhouse Gas Reporting by Large Emitters

Environment News Service
WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2009 (ENS) - The first mandatory national system for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases produced by major sources in the United States has been proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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First global warming, now global dimming

Vancouver Sun,  Canada
As if global warming were not bad enough, scientists say the planet is also dimming. Observations from 3250 metrological stations around the world, located from Baffin Island to Beijing to Buenos Aires, show that visibility in the skies decreased in ...
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State Bar Issues Greenhouse Gas Report

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY
by Brooklyn Eagle (), published online 03-12-2009 New York can take a series of realistic, timely and cost-effective steps that would slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels and leave the state and the nation better prepared for ...
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Wind Shifts May Stir Carbon Dioxide From Antarctic Depths ...

Science Daily (press release)
The study was funded by NOAA, the National Science Foundation, Norwegian Research Council and Norwegian Polar Institute. . Wind-Driven Upwelling in the Southern Ocean and the Deglacial Rise in Atmospheric CO2. Science, March 13, 2009...
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Energy Reform: Heavy Hitters Seek to Sway Cap and Trade Debate

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As President Obama continues his push for a market-based cap on greenhouse gas emissions, an unprecedented number of powerful lobbying groups are preparing to leave their mark on the impending federal policy. Some say there's a whiff of fresh air in ...
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Environmental Group Supports Bipartisan Transportation Bill to Cut ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY
The bill proposes to take 10 percent of the revenue from a future cap-and-trade climate program and use it to fund a Low Greenhouse Gas Transportation Fund. The fund would finance planning and implementation of environmentally friendly transportation ...
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Global warming is America's lowest priority, recent poll shows

Examiner.com
Global warming ranks dead last in a list of national priorities, according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for the Public & the Press. The Americans polled rank the economy, unemployment, and terrorism as (respectively) the top ...
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Climate change effects seen in Antarctic winds

The Associated Press
At the same time, populations of Adelie penguins, who require a colder climate, have dropped sharply in that region, while warmer-weather chin-strap penguins have increased. "We're showing for the first time that there is an ongoing change on ...
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Meet the Sceptics

Buzzle, CA
Suzanne Goldenberg reports from this week's gathering of climate change deniers It is 8.50am in a windowless room in a hotel off New York's Times Square and the speaker is rounding off a talk called "Climate change and extreme events: lies, ...
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Planning for future must consider climate change

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite years of study and analysis, the world is unprepared for climate change and needs to rethink basic assumptions that govern things as varied as choosing cars and building bridges, the National Research Council reports.
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Political Elite Losing Touch With America on Global Warming

Heritage.org, DC
... faster than polar ice caps, as it turns out. So how will the public react if the government signs into law a stringent cap-and-trade scheme to reduce carbon? Rajendra Pachauri's, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...
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WWF: Global warming puts polar bears on thin ice

International Herald Tribune, France
AP OSLO: The world's polar bears are on thin ice as global warming slowly melts their habitat, so Arctic countries need to take action at a meeting next week to help protect them, the WWF conservation group warned Thursday.
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Greenpeace energy report projects cheap, clean power -- and more jobs

Los Angeles Times, CA
An environmentalist-sponsored report claims that by 2050, the United States could sever ties with coal and nuclear power, draw nearly all its electricity from renewable sources and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% -- all with existing ...
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Climate Change: Expert Warns of Huge Cost

Sky News, UK
Climate change may spark huge hikes in tax and insurance bills as unpredictable weather plays havoc with public facilities and private property, a UK climate expert has warned. Alistair Hunt of the University of Bath claims that too little attention ...
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Dire scenarios presented on global warming

Sacramento Bee,  USA
By Tom Knudson Global warming is likely to take a greater toll on California than previously believed unless strong measures are taken to combat it, a state panel was told Wednesday. The potential impacts - according to a flurry of new scientific ...
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Obama's Global Warming Straddle

FrontPage magazine.com, CA
But don't assume that this administration, in contrast to its predecessor, is overly concerned about the threat to humanity from global warming. When the president unveiled his budget later that week, it became clear that even if so-called ...
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Global warming could displace 110000 on OC coast, report says

ScienceDude, CA
Sea level rise driven by global warming could flood parts of the California coast in coming decades, with Orange County's among the most vulnerable in the state, a new state-commissioned report says. The report by an independent Oakland research group, ...
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As sea levels rise, so does threat to Bay Area property

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
It assumes a high level of greenhouse gas emissions in a world where population growth is steady but economic growth and technological development are slowing down. It does not, however, assume catastrophic melting or collapsing of ice in Greenland or ...
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Interior Department Announces New Focus on Global Warming ...

Common Dreams (press release), ME
WASHINGTON - March 11 - Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar today announced that the agency will increasingly focus on advancing clean, renewable energy and addressing global warming. Secretary Salazar announced the formation of an energy and ...
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Gallup Poll: Americans doubting global warming

Examiner.com
In a just released poll from the Gallup Organization, while a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is accurately portrayed, 41% now believe it is exaggerated. That is the highest percentage of 'doubters' since 1998.
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On Climate Change, Henry Waxman Wants Congress to Act Now

U.S. News & World Report, DC
"We're more and more suffering the consequences of global warming and climate change, which scientists tell us could be irreversible if we don't take very serious action now," he says. Waxman wants his new committee to have a bill to curb carbon ...
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Kerry: Climate change delay is 'suicide pact'

AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A leading US senator warned on Wednesday that deferring potentially costly actions to combat climate change because of the global economic slump amounted to "a mutual suicide pact." "Climate change is not governed by a recession, ...
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Sea rise 'to exceed projections'

BBC News, UK
By David Shukman The global sea level looks set to rise far higher than forecast because of changes in the polar ice-sheets, a team of researchers has suggested. Scientists at a climate change summit in Copenhagen said earlier UN estimates were too low ...
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Senate alters climate-change bill

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
By Cathy Mckitrick A bill that would require economic studies for any climate-change actions cleared the Senate on Wednesday, but not without some tweaking. Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake City, successfully amended HB412 to narrow its focus to executive ...
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In early stages, Obama lets Congress work its will on climate bill

New York Times, United States
But with a powerful House committee weeks away from circulating a climate change bill, the Obama administration has largely taken a back seat when it comes to sculpting many of that package's key provisions. "The president proposes, Congress disposes," ...
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Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: UN

AFP
PARIS (AFP) - Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark UN report said on Wednesday. Compiled by 24 UN agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim ...
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AT&T plans to spend $565 million on clean-burning cars

Bizjournals.com, NC
The alternative-fuel vehicles should provide a 39 percent improvement in fuel economy and a 29 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. AT&T will replace 7100 passenger cars in its fleet over the next 10 years. Initially, these vehicles will be ...
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Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say

guardian.co.uk, UK
The research, by some of Britain's leading experts on climate change, shows that even severe cuts in deforestation and carbon emissions will fail to save the jungle, which has become a powerful symbol of human impact on the planet.
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Senate budget leaders warn against using spending bill to move ...

New York Times, United States
By ALEX KAPLUN, ClimateWire The leaders of the Senate Budget Committee yesterday warned the Obama administration against pursuing the filibuster-proof budget reconciliation measure as a strategy for moving climate change legislation.
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Researchers warn that sea levels will rise much faster than expected

New York Times, United States
By JEAN-MARIE MACABREY, ClimateWire COPENHAGEN -- By the end of the century, sea levels may rise twice as much as was predicted two years ago in the fourth assessment report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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Obama Will Intensify Climate Cooperation with United Nations

Environment News Service
WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2009 (ENS) - President Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today agreed on the potential for stepped up cooperation between the United Nations and the United States on climate change. During their talks, the two ...
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10 global warming policy recommendations for the Obama administration

Mother Nature Network, GA
By PlentyMag.com With near-consensus among scientists that catastrophic consequences of anthropogenic global warming are already on their way, yet little being done to avert it, it's time for the US to begin treating the climate crisis like the ...
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Is the US unable to deal with global warming?

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The head of the IPCC went on to say that domestic politics will prevent Obama from taking quick moves on global warming. The US will react only gradually he said. He was talking at a pre-conference in Copenhagen where the major climate change conflab ...
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Climate Urgency Stressed as 2000 Researchers Meet

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By Alex Morales March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Two thousand researchers called to Copenhagen this week to discuss the latest global-warming science will stress a growing urgency to tackle climate change, Danish Climate and Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard ...
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Energy Roundup: Hydrogen-Powered Tractors, EPA's Big Plans, and More

BNET, Ca
[Source: EcoGeek, New Holland] EPA emissions proposal, leaked document shed light on administration's plans - Any uncertainty over the Obama administration's plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions were quelled Tuesday with two reports - one ...
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Hub among 1000 cities to turn out lights for climate change

Boston Globe, United States
By Michele Richinick Lights on the famous Citgo sign, Zakim Bridge, Prudential Center, John Hancock Tower, and other local landmarks will "go dark" for one hour this month as Boston joins cities across the world in a climate-change campaign.
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