US report to press case for quick moves on climate

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By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top climate change scientists will unveil a report on Tuesday that details the impact of global warming on the United States and argues for fast action ...
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Gas Attack: Coal (And Clean Energy) Under Assault From Cheap ...

Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
Natural gas has only half the greenhouse-gas emissions as coal. If climate legislation slaps a big price tag on carbon emissions, natural gas will become more attractive as a power source. Which raises a big question about the rebirth of the futuregen ...
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Reviving American chestnuts may mitigate climate change

Farm and Dairy, Ohio
"Maintaining or increasing forest cover has been identified as an important way to slow climate change," said Jacobs. "The American chestnut is an incredibly fast-growing tree. Generally the faster a tree grows, the more carbon it is able to sequester.
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Starting with doctors, Obama faces long, hot summer

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Republicans are moving into all-out opposition on health care and climate change too, seeing both as their road to redemption. The issues hit squarely on their sweet spot, allowing them to slam Democrats for raising taxes and increasing spending.
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Big Oil Is Biggest Investor in Greenhouse Gas-Curbing Technologies ...

New York Times, United States
By MICHAEL BURNHAM and GREENWIRE The US public and private sectors invested $132.9 billion in greenhouse gas-mitigating technologies between 2000 and 2008 -- including projects that capture methane from landfills and carbon dioxide from oil refineries ...
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Global warming causing mass migration

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BERLIN, June 15 (UPI) -- Global warming will submerge island states, destroy farmland and force millions of people into migration by 2050, according to a report unveiled at climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. Worsening tropical storms, desert ...
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Paul McCartney Calls for Meat-Free Mondays to Curb Animal Gas

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Cows, pigs and sheep bred for human consumption discharge millions of tons of methane, a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Livestock emissions account for about 18 percent of greenhouse gases, more than all the world's cars, ...
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Brokering a global deal on climate change

Business Mirror, Philippines
In an exclusive interview with BusinessMirror correspondent Imelda V. Aba��o on the sidelines of the climate-change talks in Bonn, Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), outlines the ...
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Open Forum: A choice on climate change

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
By Helene D.Gayle It's time the world paid attention to an equally powerful but often-overlooked sign of climate change: people migrating. Consider the Vietnamese rice farmer forced to resettle in another part of the Mekong Delta because "flooding ...
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Global warming isn't real

NEWS.com.au, Australia
"Global warming quite clearly over the last decade hasn't been actually occurring," Senator Fielding said before the meeting. The Senate is due to vote on emissions trading next week. Senator Fielding recently returned from a self-funded trip to the US ...
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Pachauri: Stern stance on China climate talks 'pragmatic'

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(CNN) -- The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has rejected suggestions that the US has adopted too soft a stance on climate change negotiations with China. Protesters march through Sydney, Australia on June 13 to urge more ...
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McCartney urges 'meat-free days' to tackle climate change

Independent, UK
"We should care about climate change because if we don't, we are going to leave our children and their children in a hell of a mess," Sir Paul told The Independent, which has been given exclusive details of the launch. The McCartneys have attracted ...
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Local Officials Share Climate Change Strategies With the World

Nation's Cities Weekly, DC
by Kathleen M. Novak In December, cabinet ministers from all United Nations member countries are invited to Copenhagen, Denmark, to write a new international climate change agreement as the successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Last week in Copenhagen, ...
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House Ag Committee Hears Climate Change Testimony

Hoosier Ag Today, IN
Last week the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review pending climate change legislation under consideration by Congress. Chairman Collin Peterson said many members of the committee were quite concerned with the potential impact on people ...
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Getting a deal on global warming

Irish Times, Ireland
The extent of this debt is enormous and needs to be repaid by developed countries making deep cuts in emissions as well as providing substantial aid to help developing countries adapt to the consequences of global warming and find more environmentally ...
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Argentine glacier advances despite global warming

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures. Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of ...
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International Agreement on Climate Treaty Seems Unlikely in 2009

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... and even if it does happen it would prove largely ineffective since the developing countries wouldn't be a part of it. The US Energy Secretary has stated that in order to tackle the problem of climate change his country needs to work as a leader.
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Australia pushes for airlines to curb emissions

guardian.co.uk, UK
The prospect of a worldwide carbon tax for airline passengers is gathering pace after the Australian government demanded the inclusion of the aviation industry in the global climate change treaty. The Australian administration has proposed that ...
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WINDMILL: US reps fear effect on farmers of pending climate change ...

San Angelo Standard Times, tx
By Jerry Lackey (Contact) The climate change legislation under consideration by Congress has drawn growing opposition from Democratic and Republican members of the US House Agriculture Committee and encouraged Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., ...
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Obama's energy secretary calls for white roofs to slow global warming

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The energy secretary mentioned that white roofs would put a brake on global warming and ease electric bills in hot areas. Professor Chu said that the current research that the Berkeley Lab has conducted shows that light colored roofs could slow global ...
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Global Warming Alarmists Are Considering the Wrong "Consensus"

Right Side News, GA
The Global Warming alarmists keep repeating that "the consensus" proves global warming and that the "discussion is over". If "consensus" is so important, then let's take a look at that, shall we? Mr. PAUL. "Madam Speaker, before voting on the ...
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Global warming 'balance'

Detroit Free Press, United States
As you can see (here and here), I found a global warming skeptic to do a set of blog entries for us, and although he's not from Michigan, he's at least from an adjacent area code and presumably knows what a trout is - although I think he's far too ...
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Anger builds over carbon trading

Calgary Herald,  Canada
Offsets are regulated credits --each equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide--produced when an organization reduces its greenhouse gas emissions. Those credits can be sold to another company, usually a major industrial emitter, to "offset" greenhouse ...
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Carbon tax could reduce greenhouse gas now

The Colorado Statesman, CO
Colorado's city of Boulder was the first municipality in the nation to levy a so-called carbon tax for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to address climate change. Now the rest of the nation needs to follow its example.
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Australians demand more action on climate change

Reuters India, India
SYDNEY, June 13 (Reuters) - Hundreds of environmental activists took to the streets of Australia's main cities on Saturday, saying the Labor government was not doing enough on climate change. The protests came ahead of a vote in the upper house Senate ...
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Global warming, climate change and the politics of language

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Global warming or climate change is not likely to be defeated by rhetoric alone. So it's easy--much too easy--to make fun of the non-profit PR group eco-America's attempt to redefine the vocabulary of this particular discussion. They're not the first, ...
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Republicans Slam Democrat Climate Change Bill

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By VOA News Republicans Saturday called a Democratic bill under discussion in the House of Representatives equivalent to a national energy tax. Speaking for his party's weekly radio address, Indiana representative Mike Pence said the Democratic plans ...
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Climate change? Check this data

Detroit Free Press, United States
In the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Figure 9.1 shows that the main effect of CO2 over the past century (see panel (c)) should have been a strong warming in the mid-troposphere over the tropics.
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Wong defends policy amid climate change protests

ABC Online, Australia
Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has defended the Government's policies on climate change, despite criticisms of them at protests around the nation today. At a protest rally in central Sydney, streets were blocked off as more than 1000 people ...
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Climate change talks need to change

China Daily, China
By Fu Jing (China Daily) China Daily carried a report on Wednesday, saying China and the US had achieved nothing substantial at the bilateral climate change talks. But that was not to be, for shortly before boarding the flight back home on Wednesday ...
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Methane may be renewable energy

St. George Daily Spectrum, UT
GEORGE - St. George City officials hope to turn trash into cash this year, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the process. The city's Energy Services Department, in cooperation with the Washington County Solid Waste District, has proposed capturing ...
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'Global-warming' debate heats up in snowy Australia

American Thinker, WA
First the pro-free speech heretics published Professor Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth - a skeptic's guide to global warming, a runaway bestseller. What's more, the European Union President endorsed it. Now? The publisher informs me (via email) that a ...
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Methane capture could provide renewable energy

St. George Daily Spectrum, UT
GEORGE - St. George City officials hope to turn trash into cash this year, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the process. The city's Energy Services Department, in cooperation with the Washington County Solid Waste District, has proposed capturing ...
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US envoy speaks highly of China's measures to contain green house ...

Xinhua, China
"I was very favorably impressed by actions that China has already taken and is taking -- and by China's commitment to develop a low-carbon path forward and to take potentially far-reaching steps to contain their greenhouse gas emissions and at the same ...
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US and China Heat Up the Global-Warming Debate

The Takeaway, New York
By John Hockenberry, Farai Chideya, Melissa Locker Benavidez Top climate change officials from China and the US met this week in Beijing to hash out a pre-Copenhagen plan for cutting greenhouse gas. The two countries are the world's top two greenhouse ...
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Climate Change Treaty, to Go Beyond the Kyoto Protocol, Is ...

New York Times, United States
"Time is short, but we still have enough time," the official, Yvo de Boer, who is the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said at a briefing. "I'm confident that governments can reach an agreement and want ...
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Former NCGA President Testifies On Climate Change Legislation

CattleNetwork.com, KS
National Corn Growers Association Past President Fred Yoder testified Thursday evening before the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture regarding climate change legislation currently being considered by Congress.
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US to China: No Emissions Limits, But Please Curb the Growth Rate

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China has to "very considerably" cut the growth rate of its greenhouse-gas emissions, said top climate negotiator Todd Stern. "We are expecting China to reduce emissions very considerably compared to where they would otherwise be��� ...
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US Rep. Frank Lucas fights greenhouse gas bill

NewsOK.com, OK
BY CHRIS CASTEEL WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack declined Thursday to endorse a far-reaching House bill to curb greenhouse gas emissions. An Oklahoma congressman said it would "destroy" farmers' livelihoods. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Cheyenne, ...
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FEMA Launches Effort to Measure Impact of Climate Change on Flood ...

New York Times, United States
Federal officials are struggling to calculate the fiscal impact that climate change could have on the nation's troubled public flood insurance program, amid predictions of intensifying downpours and more potent hurricanes.
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Even my dog can understand

Hughson Chronicle, CA
They are closely tied with the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) and the United Nations people that want to have a true world government. This of course gives Al Gore a huge budget to spend promoting the IPCC. This is the group that has ...
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Climate Change Conference Ends Without Agreement

Washington Post, United States
By David A. Fahrenthold and Ariana Eunjung Cha A United Nations conference on climate change -- intended to lay the groundwork for a global agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions in December -- concluded today with negotiators little closer to a deal.
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US to restart plans for a plant to capture greenhouse gases

Los Angeles Times, CA
By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington -- Federal officials announced an agreement this morning to restart plans to build an experimental plant that seeks to collect greenhouse gas emissions from coal before they enter the atmosphere.
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How the Global Warming Bill Will Affect Your Wallet

U.S. News & World Report, DC
By Matthew Bandyk In the coming weeks, Congress will likely consider a massive global-warming bill to create a new cap-and-trade program to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. President Obama praised the bill, dubbed "Waxman-Markey" for its co-sponsors, ...
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A Global Warming Bill That's Bad News for Farmers -- and Their ...

istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR
The latest threat comes from global-warming legislation called Waxman-Markey (after its congressional sponsors). It doesn't target farmers directly, yet it's far and away Washington's most anti-agriculture proposal in years.
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Caribou, reindeer herds at risk across Arctic

Vancouver Sun,  Canada
"Given the magnitude of climate changes in the polar region, and human activities both in the boreal forest and in the North, it really casts doubt on the species' ability to recover." Information gathered from published literature, ...
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Who Is Winning the Race for the Arctic?

BusinessWeek
But which of the nations around the polar region will emerge as the winner of this Arctic Monopoly game? Is there even such a thing as a winner here? In any case, things are not looking particularly good for the United States.
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Accelerated Climate Change Will Cause Millions Of Refugees

io9, CA
A new report says tens of millions will be forced to flee their homes before the end of this decade, because of climate change. Researchers from Columbia University, the United Nations University, and CARE International issued In Search of Shelter to ...
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UN climate talks advance, poor urge more CO2 cuts

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"I look back on this as a significant session that has advanced our work in important ways," Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat, told a news conference of the June 1-12 meeting among 183 nations. He said governments staked out far ...
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Scientists warn of gaps in ice monitoring

The Age, Australia
ANTARCTIC scientists warn they risk "going blind" to changes in climatically vital polar ice sheets because the most valuable satellite sensors are too old. Long gaps in monitoring the ice sheets that lock up most of Earth's fresh water are likely, ...
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