White House Announces International Meetings to Address Energy and ...

New York Times, United States
The participants, who include Chinese and Indian representatives, will also try to create "concrete initiatives and joint ventures that increase the supply of clean energy while cutting greenhouse gas emissions," according to a White House news release ...
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Obama calls major economies climate change meeting

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama is launching a "Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate" to help facilitate a UN agreement on global warming, the White House said on Saturday. Leaders from 16 major economies have been invited to a ...
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Police trying to 'smear' peaceful protests

Times Online, UK
The group says it will bring a giant ice block and is encouraging supporters to bring their own ice blocks and dress in white to highlight the rate of melting of the polar ice cap because of global warming. The broad coalition of protestors also ...
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The UN Makes it Official: Global Warming Hysteria Is All About ...

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By Noel Sheppard For years, climate realists around the world have been warning the international community that the entire man-made global warming myth and resulting hysteria is all a scheme to redistribute wealth under the pretense of saving the ...
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Hour of darkness to fight climate change

Baltimore Sun, United States
The symbolic gesture, organized by the World Wildlife Fund, is meant to show support for efforts to reduce energy consumption and slow global climate change. More than 2400 cities in 82 countries are participating...
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Labor-Enviro Alliance Urges Climate Law in 2009

Environment News Service
WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2009 (ENS) - Four labor unions and two environmental organizations representing six million people today announced their support for national cap-and-trade climate change legislation in 2009. Such legislation would place an ...
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Black is back for California drivers (actually, it never left)

Los Angeles Times, CA
The California Air Resources Board said Friday that it has no plans "at this time" to regulate car paint as part of a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - and never intended to outlaw black cars in the first place. "We are by no means interested ...
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Russia outlines Arctic force plan

BBC News, UK
With climate change opening up the possibility of making drilling viable in previously inaccessible areas, the Arctic has gained in strategic importance for Russia, says the bbc's James Rodgers in Moscow. However, Russia's arctic ambitions have already ...
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Obama told to keep climate change out of budget bill

Reuters UK, UK
However, because of strong opposition to implementing such a plan, especially while the US economy is weak, climate change legislation would likely need 60 votes in the Senate instead of the normal 51-vote majority to block a filibuster of the measure.
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EPA moves to regulate greenhouse gases

Alaskajournal.com, AK
By AP WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first step on the long road to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Regulation under this act will be an important new regulatory requirement on business and ...
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Md. House approves greenhouse gas bill

Baltimore Sun, United States
AP The Maryland House of Delegates has voted 107-31 for a measure that commits the state to a 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The measure seeks to reduce greenhouse gas through renewable energy and recycling, easing concerns ...
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NH Climate Action Plan Released

RenewableEnergyWorld.com, NH
The state of New Hampshire's Climate Change Policy Task Force this week released the New Hampshire Climate Action Plan and announced the creation of a public/private partnership that will oversee and guide the plan's implementation.
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Climate Talks Look to US Role

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"The arrival of the new US administration will have a huge and positive effect on the negotiations," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, which is overseeing the talks. "This will be the first opportunity for the ...
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Farmers Face Challenges To Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions

RedOrbit, TX
They must also become experts in reporting their greenhouse gas emissions to governments, said University of Melbourne scientist Richard John Eckard on Thursday. Agriculture represents a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions, ...
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Maryland to land another $53M for energy efficiency

Bizjournals.com, NC
The funding will support energy efficiency programs, transportation programs that conserve energy and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To receive the money, grant recipients must report the number of jobs created or retained and how they ...
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Source: Fuel efficiency standard going up

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Future standards will need to be squared with a pending ruling on a request from California to reverse a Bush-era decision that prevents the state from setting its own limits on greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles. Thirteen other states and the ...
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Global warming worriers feel heat of hypocrisy

Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Last year people celebrated Earth Hour not just by turning off lights for an hour to "save" us from global warming gases. They celebrated also by burning forests of candles instead, and this year they'll go one better, by marking it during the Grand ...
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Global Climate Efforts Await New US Input

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"The arrival of the new US administration will have a huge and positive effect on the negotiations," said Yvo de Boer, head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, which is overseeing the talks. "This will be the first opportunity for the ...
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Climate change debunkers take stage in US Congress

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - As President Barack Obama tries to green the United States by slapping limits on carbon emissions, Congress was told to ignore his plan because climate change does not exist. "The right response to the non-problem of global warming ...
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Climate change targets will not be met unless Government invests ...

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Consumers will have to pay more for their energy if the UK is to meet ambitious climate change targets, according to the former head of BP, as the latest figures show the UK has failed to significantly bring down carbon emissions in the last decade.
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Less dusty air warms Atlantic, may spur hurricanes

Reuters
In the past, the rapid temperature rise had been blamed on factors such as global warming or shifts in ocean currents. Warmer temperatures may spur more hurricanes, which need sea surface temperatures of about 28 Celsius (82.40F) to form.
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Catlin Arctic Survey Uses Equivital Physiological Monitor

Cambridge Wireless (press release), UK
... working to replace the Kyoto Protocol agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen in December 2009. The team members will be wearing Hidalgo's Equivital��� physiological monitoring system throughout the polar expedition.
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Global warming could help the wetlands — for a little while

Daily Comet, LA
HOUMA - Scientists say rising levels of carbon dioxide are the cause of global warming and rising sea levels that could drown coastal communities like Terrebonne and Lafourche. But a new study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in ...
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EPA presses to regulate warming

Examiner.com
Just yesterday the Washington Post had an online article about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) trying to regulate global warming by limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions, in what I will call "THE GREAT DEBATE of the 21st Century".
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Deforestation Prevention Vital To Curb Greenhouse Gases

RedOrbit, TX
"Unless we tackle the question of forests as a mitigation method for climate change, then we will really have lost the battle to keep greenhouse gas concentrations below levels that many people would consider to be dangerous.
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EPA chief in Aspen: Agency ‘is back on the job’

Aspen Times, CO
The EPA move, if adopted by the president, is viewed as an administrative tool to regulate greenhouse gas emissions until Congress takes action. "We're not looking, as some alarmists have indicated, to regulate every single Dunkin' Donut or every ...
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2-way plan eyed for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

MiamiHerald.com, FL
By HIROKO KONO AND TAKESHI KOSAKA TOKYO -- A double-track approach is emerging as an alternative way to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 following the expiration of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on ...
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US Congress told global warming is a myth

Beijing News, China
Monckton, who has long believed climate change is myth, is a member of a movement that has argued there is no statistically significant global warming. Saying green jobs are purely a euphemism for mass unemployment, he told Congress members that ...
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Michele Bachmann Seeks ‘Armed and Dangerous’ Opposition to Cap-and ...

New York Times, United States
By Kate Galbraith Associated Press "The science indicates that human activity is not the cause of all this global warming," Ms. Bachmann said. Michele Bachmann, a Republican Congresswoman from east-central Minnesota, has some fighting words for ...
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Global warming 37 pct to blame for droughts-scientist

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By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters) - Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade-long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States ...
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The Civil Heretic

New York Times, United States
These ideas attract derision similar to Dyson's essays on climate change, but he is an undeterred octogenarian futurist. "I don't think of myself predicting things," he says. "I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen.
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2009 Earth Hour Project Will Take Place On Saturday, March 28 At ...

Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News, OH
By Jennifer L. Fields Buffalo, NY - The Buffalo Zoo is encouraging its staff, as well as the Western New York Community, to join a global effort in support of encouraging world leaders to take action on climate change. Initiated by Polar Bears ...
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Hungry shrimp eat climate change experiment

New Scientist, UK
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research reported that the copepods were in turn eaten by larger crustaceans called amphipods, which serve as food for squid and fin whales. The grazing effect had not been seen in ...
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Rudd Welcomes Obama's Resolve to Address Global Warming

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"Both Australia and the United States have vast coal reserves, but we're also very interested in figuring out how do we reduce the greenhouse gases that are causing global warming." "If we can take some intelligent steps and we start to discuss how we ...
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Global warming giving nuclear new claim to clean

Asheville Citizen-Times, NC
Three decades later, fears of an atomic catastrophe have been largely supplanted by fears about global warming, easing nuclear energy into the same sentence as wind and solar power. Dogged by price spikes and an environmental assault on carbon dioxide ...
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West Nile may spread more easily due to climate change

USA Today
Climate change appears to promote the virus's transmission to humans. A new study links warmer weather and heavier rains with a growing number of outbreaks of the mosquito-borne viral infection in 17 states between 2001 and 2005.
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Climate campaign releases spoof pop single for Energy Wasting Day

Brand Republic, UK
They include the 'Polar bears, who cares?' t-shirt modelled in the video by girls pole-dancing around patio heaters. All proceeds will go to Together, which is run by independent charity The Climate Group...
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Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Scheme He Is Now Pushing ...

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One of those gases is carbon dioxide, the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas and the focus of the most far-reaching -- and contentious -- efforts to combat "climate change." On Monday, Obama's Environmental Protection Agency declared carbon dioxide a ...
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More on the Polar Bear’s Fate

New York Times, United States
By Andrew C. Revkin There's been a lot of discussion of the fate of the polar bear in a warming climate so I thought it worth adding a few more insights from scientists studying this remarkable animal's past and assessing its future.
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UN plans guide to fighting climate-change disasters

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Floods, mudslides, droughts, heatwaves or storms are often the main causes of destruction and human suffering tied to climate change, rather than the creeping rise in average temperatures blamed on a build-up of greenhouse gases.
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Fair and multilateral framework on climate change needed:India

Press Trust of India, India
Washington, Mar 25 (PTI) Taking up the leadership mantle of the third world countries, India today sought a fair and equitable multilateral framework on climate change, which would help nations across the globe to make an early transition to a carbon ...
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Obama calls Rudd a partner for 'years to come'

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Rudd, who some observers see as a political "soul mate" for Obama in a new generation of global leaders, meanwhile said it was good to have the United States "back on board" on world economics and global warming. "I think he's doing a terrific job, ...
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Greenhouse action on move in MD, DC

Baltimore Sun, United States
In Annapolis, the House Economic Matters Committee gave its blessing yesterday to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, which would commit Maryland to reducing climate-warming emissions 25 percent from 2006 levels by 2020.
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Response: The Czech president's climate change denial is irrelevant

guardian.co.uk, UK
Your leader column expressed widely held views towards climate change deniers, but made the mistake of believing that the extreme personal opinions of the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, are relevant to the official views of the Czech Republic or its ...
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Obama says budget, recovery 'inseparable'

Washington Times, DC
President Obama on Tuesday asked for broad new authority to take over financial institutions and pushed Congress to adopt his plans for fighting global warming and expanding health care. Associated Press Calling his ambitious budget "inseparable" from ...
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SF close to adopting Berkeley renewable power plan

Bizjournals.com, NC
At the conference, Newsom also talked about a program that will allow San Franciscans to view their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions in real time no matter where they go in the city. The program is called eco-map and it's being developed by San ...
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Lawmaker: Global warming plan won't be in budget

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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats won't advance President Obama's controversial global warming initiative under fast-track rules that could effectively cut Senate Republicans out of the debate, a top Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.
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Greenhouse gas program criticized

Gary Post Tribune, IN
By Gitte Laasby Post-Tribune staff writer MERRILLVILLE - A hot potato is baking on Capitol Hill: President Barack Obama wants to start a cap-and-trade program that would limit greenhouse gas emissions and curb global warming. But critics, including Gov ...
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Gore to Revisit Climate Crisis in New Book

New York Times, United States
Since his last book did not single-handedly solve the world's environmental problems, Al Gore will return to the subject of global warming in a new book to be released by Rodale Inc., the publisher said in a news release. The book, "Our Choice," will ...
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Obama: Red River flooding is wakeup call to fight global warming

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN
President Obama used the flooding in the Red River Valley to insist that society needs to take global warming seriously. In a White House interview with a handful of reporters, including Janell Cole of the Forum of Fargo, the president said the current ...
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