Climate Deal Must Cover Acid Oceans, World Scientists Urge

Environment News Service
The statement emphasizes that ocean acidification is irreversible and, on current emission trajectories, suggests that all coral reefs and polar ecosystems will be severely affected by 2050 or even earlier. In their statement, the scientific academies ...
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The seldom-seen devastation of climate change

Salon
A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic. By Peter Dizikes June 1, 2009 | In our visual culture, climate change remains oddly invisible. Few people can glimpse melting glaciers or ...
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News Viewpoint: Global warming is a giant scam

Gloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ
Former Vice President Al Gore says the science is settled and refuses to debate anyone about global warming. Of course he can't debate anyone on the issue, because he will be exposed for the charlatan that he is. The Nobel Peace Prize and the Oscar was ...
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Examiner.com exclusive global warming debates--Stephen Schneider ...

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In the first part of our interview with Professor Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, we covered a wide range of topics regarding the 'state of play' regarding the debate on global warming. One part of it got picked up by the rest of the media ...
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Can't We Just Learn To Live With Global Warming?

The Plank on TNR.com, DC
Here's an example: The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Climate Change recently released the results of its climate modeling, and found that the median projections for average global surface warming by 2100 are 5.2��C (9.4��F).
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Brasher: Road to greenhouse gas control goes through farmers

DesMoinesRegister.com, IA
By PHILIP BRASHER ��� pbrasher@dmreg.com ��� May 31, 2009 Washington, DC - If Democrats are serious about enacting controls on greenhouse gases, they may have to win over farmers first. House Democrat leaders are pledging to move ahead with legislation ...
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Carbon target impasse continues as Bonn talks kick off

Business Green, UK
The latest round of UN-backed climate change talks kicked off in Bonn, Germany today with the US negotiating team reiterating their view that rich nations are unlikely to be able to deliver the deep short term cuts in carbon emissions being demanded by ...
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California forests hold one answer to climate change

Los Angeles Times, CA
In the struggle over how to address climate change nationally and globally, forests play a major role. "Cap-and-trade" programs set limits on greenhouse gases and allow industries to trade emissions permits among themselves.
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In Climate Debate, Big Corn Demands Another Handout

Daily Green
Corn ethanol is hardly better (or a little worse) than gasoline, when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions ... but politics is politics. As if corn isn't already getting a heapin' helpin' of federal subsidies. Blue Dog Democrat Collin Peterson, ...
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Bill aims to keep emission-reduction efforts local

Los Angeles Times, CA
In addition to slowing global warming, greenhouse gas cleanup would reduce the particulates and toxic gases that cause cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. But companies want to avoid some cleanup expenses through "offsets" -- paying for cheaper ...
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Only question is, what to do about global warming

River Falls Journal, WI
Global warming is well established in science. It is not a matter of belief, but of evidence, and the evidence for global warming is overwhelming. The very few scientists who dispute global warming usually do not do research in the area.
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Daniels Criticizes Democrats Plans to Reduce Global Warming

NewsTalk 1010 WCSI, Indiana
Governor Mitch Daniels used his time as host of the Republican Party's weekly radio and Internet address to speak out against a Democratic-sponsored plan to reduce global warming. Daniels criticized President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...
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My Opinion On The Cause Of Global Warming

Daily Kos, CA
by ProgressiveTokyo A Rasmussen telephone survey earlier this year found that a plurality of Americans (44%) think global warming is caused by long-term planetary trends. Which influenced my to write down my thought on Global Warming.
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National greenhouse gas emissions rising

Brisbane Times, Australia
The national greenhouse accounts released on Monday show emissions rose by an estimated 553 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, or 1.1 per cent, last year. Senator Wong said the underlying trends showed carbon pollution was increasing, ...
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Climate Change Study Finds Increasing Greenhouse Emissions

NewsOXY, FL
Climate change is a global effect which is occurring more rapidly than any other human generation on Earth. Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing far more rapidly, which has an impact on the environment and current climate conditions.
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Climate change turning seas acid, academies warn

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BONN, Germany, June 1 (Reuters) - Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday.
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Pelosi's Chinese Climate Change

Wall Street Journal
So the Chinese economy would be more efficient, while the West would be less competitive. Whatever Chinese leaders do collectively on climate change, they must be relieved that Mrs. Pelosi no longer wants to press very hard for individual rights...
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Ethanol Test For Obama On Climate Change

Chief Engineer, IL
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's commitment to take on climate change and put science over politics is about to be tested as his administration faces a politically sensitive question about the widespread use of ethanol: Does it help or hurt ...
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NDSU Biofuels Economist Sees Challenges for Corn Ethanol Plants

Dakota Farmer, SD
EPA is proposing that conventional biofuels, such as grain ethanol, in the future must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20%. EPA plans to includes both "direct" and "indirect" causes of greenhouse gas emissions during the lifecycle of ...
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Cap-and-Trade: All Cost, No Benefit

Washington Post, United States
But that is not a reason to enact a US cap-and-trade system until there is a global agreement on CO2 reduction. The proposed legislation would have a trivially small effect on global warming while imposing substantial costs on all American households.
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Congress Considers Major Global Warming Measure

Chief Engineer, IL
The fallout from global warming, while subtle now, could eventually be more dire. That prospect has Democrats pushing legislation that rivals in scope the nation's landmark anti-pollution laws. Lawmakers are beginning hearings on an energy and global ...
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Expecting New Tax, Firm Prepares to Track Carbon

New York Times, United States
Since 2007, it has been quietly incubating Hara, a start-up that on Monday will start selling software to help businesses measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. "This is not 'greenwash.' It's dollars to the bottom line," said John Doerr, ...
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Global warming toward the EU's upper limit

Crikey, Australia
A dissipation of aerosols and the melting of polar ice would raise polar temperature anomalies to levels exceeding even the current 4 to 5 degrees C warming in parts of the Arctic circle, Siberia and west Antarctica. Such high degrees of warming result ...
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Global Warming

Daily Times, Pakistan
Because people are burning fuels with carbon in (that's oil, gas and coal which you use in cars, aeroplanes, power stations and so on), all this carbon gets dumped into the air, mixed with the oxygen we all breathe, and so adds to our greenhouse gas ...
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Climate and energy bill faces hurdles when Congress returns

Kansas City Star, MO
As it now stands, the measure would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent compared with 2005 levels by 2020, and continues to an 83 percent cut by 2050 by setting a declining limit, or cap, on the amount of emissions companies can produce.
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Racing beyond Kyoto

The Gazette (Montreal), Canada
The fear is that an increase above that would mean widespread destruction of ecosystems and an irreversible melting of the polar ice caps that over the next few centuries would substantially increase sea levels. A total meltdown would essentially wipe ...
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Paddling furiously against the tide of climate change

Small Gov Times, VA
Global warming is the invention of the United Nations which launched it with the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1988 via its Environment Program in association with its World Meteorological Organization.
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For climate change bill, hard part starts now

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Environmentalists celebrated earlier this month when a key House committee approved a contentious proposal to combat climate change after months of often-bitter public deliberations and intense closed-door negotiations. But for congressional supporters ...
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The Six Views that Americans Have on Global Warming

Softpedia, Romania
By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Experts from the Yale University and the George Mason University have recently finished compiling a new study regarding the views that American citizens have on global warming, and determined the fact that the population ...
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From the Los Angeles Times

Baltimore Sun, United States
... a "cash for clunkers" program in the major energy bill being written in Congress, but they ended a White House meeting without reaching agreement on thornier issues -- including how to reduce the economic impact of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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New report: Worldwide deaths from climate to reach .5M

Business Mirror, Philippines
CLIMATE change accounts for more than 300000 deaths per year around the world and $125 billion of economic losses annually, creating conditions where more people feel the effects of natural disasters or suffer environmental degradation, ...
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India asked to cut greenhouse gas emissions 15-30 pc

Hindu, India
New Delhi (IANS): India is under pressure from industrialised countries to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 15-30 percent by 2020. India's negotiators are meeting their counterparts from G77 couontries and China throughout this weekend in ...
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Climate change: 'Bali Road Map' seeks compass

AFP
PARIS (AFP) - Gruelling efforts to craft a pact on climate change enter a crucial phase on Monday when the 192-nation UN forum takes its first look at a draft text for negotiations. The 12-day huddle in the German city of Bonn under the UN Framework ...
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Obama's Realism May Not Play Well in Cairo's Streets

New York Times, United States
In a recent speech, David Miliband, Britain's scholarly foreign minister, observed that, in the face of "threats from climate change, terrorism, pandemics and financial crisis," global security can be guaranteed only by "the broadest possible coalition ...
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Of Lemmings and Men

Polish News, IL
Consider this: In slightly more than 10 thousand years, the earth was ending an ice age that extended polar caps more than a mile deep down to southern Illinois. And the earth there is still rising in southern Illinois after that great weight burden in ...
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How Obama Made His Energy Platform 'Pop'

Washington Post, United States
By Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin After a long day of campaigning on July 8, candidate Barack Obama arrived at his Chicago headquarters for a three-hour brainstorming session about a suddenly hot issue: energy and climate change.
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Republican Address: Climate Change Bill 'Unwise'

Voice of America
By VOA News A US Republican governor has criticized a climate bill backed by Democrats and President Barack Obama, calling it wasteful and inefficient. In the Republicans' weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Governor Mitch Daniels of the ...
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The Climate Gap: Is Federal Climate Policy Doing Enough to Narrow ...

Huffington Post, NY
The biggest lost opportunity to address climate change and close the Climate Gap is the absence of any incentives or requirements to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air pollution by focusing greenhouse gas reductions in the neighborhoods ...
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GOP belittles Democrats' climate change proposal

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The climate change proposal developed by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama does little to reduce global warming and saddles Americans with high energy costs, Republicans said Saturday. Indiana Gov.
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Global warming causes 300000 deaths a year: study

Press Trust of India, India
The first comprehensive study of the human impact of the global warming projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, floods, storms and forest fires will be responsible for as many as 500000 deaths a year by 2030, making it the greatest humanitarian ...
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GE Says Ecomagination Sales Goal Challenging But Doable

Wall Street Journal
Among them, GE said it has decreased its own greenhouse gas intensity by 41%, surpassing a 2005 goal to reduce the figure 30% by 2008. Greenhouse gas intensity is the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to company revenue. GE also said it invested $1.4 ...
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Limiting Black Soot and Ozone – Buying Time against Climate Change

EcoWorldly, San Francisco
Shindell, Faluvegi, and many other climate scientists believe that limiting black carbon sources may "buy the world some time" in the race to control climate change as richer nations develop their climate change policies and begin taking the slow steps ...
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Russia likely `winner' in Arctic resource dispute: Study.

Canada.com, Canada
But the June 2008 study offered only a general overview of the location of these potential polar riches, which underlie the urgent efforts among the five Arctic Ocean coastal states - Canada, Russia, the US, Denmark and Norway - to secure expanded ...
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Lawmaker Outlines 4 Key Changes In Climate Change Bill

Bristol Herald Courier, TN
Federal climate change legislation recently approved in committee has a softer impact on the coal industry and electric rate-payers, US Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said Friday. "My goal is to make sure the CO2 control law does not affect us at all and ...
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Export Duties: Chinese Factories, Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, and ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
By Keith Johnson There's been plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth over the role Chinese factories play in the global greenhouse-gas emissions problem. The Chinese say much of the stuff they make is for the West, so rich countries should shoulder ...
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Burger King Corp says Global Warming is Only Baloney in Memphis

Memphis Flyer, TN
Bad news for Memphis fast food junkies: Locally appearing Burger King signs reading "Global Warming is Baloney" aren't a tone-deaf marketing campaign for some delicious new Whopper-loni sandwich. Darn it. On the other hand ecologically-minded consumers ...
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China must play climate role

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
An effective agreement to slow climate change must reconcile their negotiating positions, analysts have said. ``I don't think that there's any question that China and the other major economies have to be in the game,'' Stern said today on a conference ...
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The game of chicken with China over global warming ends

Worldfocus, NY
We argued that the urgency of global warming demanded that step, but that elevating an issue on which China and the US had much in common could have other positive spill-over effects. At the time, this was not a run-of-the-mill recommendation.
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Do white roofs combat global warming?

KBCI CBS 2, ID
Now none other than the US energy secretary says if all rooftops and roads in the world were made white, it would combat global warming. "It would be the equivalent as if you took off all the automobiles of the road for eleven years," said Secretary ...
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Bold targets set for global warming experts pose threat to action

Times Online, UK
Achieving a workable international deal to tackle climate change successfully is being threatened by overambitious targets set for the world conference on global warming this year, experts said yesterday. Anxieties over whether a viable and effective ...
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