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Tackling Climate Change
Forbes.com - 4 Hours ago
Climate & Big thinkers tackle the challenges of producing clean power and protecting the global environment. About The Show Thought Leaders provides unprecedented access to the insight and expertise
UN seeks $10bn a year from rich to tackle climate change Daily Times
Labour is tackling climate change - Tories just use gesture politics Halifax Evening Courier
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Poland says to sell CO2 permits to Ireland soon
Reuters India - 3 Hours ago
WARSAW, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Poland will sign an accord shortly under the global Kyoto Protocol to sell surplus carbon emission permits worth 15 million euros to Ireland, Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki
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Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science
Telegraph - 2 Hours ago
By James Delingpole 7 Comments Here?s what the Times has had to say on the subject: (Yep. Nada) And the Independent: (Yep. Ditto). And here?s how The New York Times (aka Pravda) reported it: Hundreds
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Bill McKibben -- Obama should act urgently on climate change
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
Both are young and charismatic. Both were elected last fall to replace discredited incumbents (Nasheed's predecessor ruled the island nation for three decades and kept him in a political prison for years).
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David A. Fahrenthold -- Around the world, climate-change ads take darker tone
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
So can you change all these minds with a single ad? U.S. environmental groups have focused on the bright side, playing up the side benefits of tackling greenhouse gases. But in other countries, some activist
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Miranda Kennedy -- The Indian attitude on climate change
Washington Post - 3 Hours ago
This fall, when I mentioned to the Indian government's chief economic policymaker that the United States considers India 'intransigent' on climate change, the poised, Oxford-educated Montek Singh Ahluwalia
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Greenpeace supports SBYs pledge to cut emissions
Jakarta Post - 3 Hours ago
Hundreds of Greenpeace forest campaigners took to streets in Jakarta on Saturday to give a moral boost to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos pledge to slash emissions from forest and peat land clearing,
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Carbon tax backer sees it as sensible, maybe inevitable
Los Angeles Times - 8 Hours ago
Reporting from Oxford, England - With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing likelihood that a robust international
Carbon tax backer says its time has come Los Angeles Times
'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says Los Angeles Times
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Rail travel that hits the heights with carbon footprint site
The Independent - 14 Hours ago
What does Snowcarbon provide for the traveller? Everything you need to know in terms of getting from the UK to a ski resort by train. If you take the carbon footprint of a typical Alpine ski resort, 73
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Climate crunch
Guardian.co.uk - 15 Hours ago
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit
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China keen on low-carbon economy
Xinhua News Agency - 4 Hours ago
by Xinhua Writer Ji Shaoting NANCHANG, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's iconic Olympic venue --Bird's Nest -- might have been a little bit different from it is now if it were built today. 'I would choose
China Focus: China keen on low-carbon economy Individual.com
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UN climate chief seeks $10b rich nations' pledge
Oman Tribune - 4 Hours ago
UNITED NATIONS The UN environmental chief called on rich nations on Thursday to pledge $10 billion a year for three years at next monthâ??s Copenhagen summit to help poor states begin to tackle the impact
Nations to seek billions in 'climate debt' NEWS.com.au
Central America to demand billions in climate damages Philippine Daily Inquirer
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Libs warn Turnbull over carbon split
The Age - 98 Minutes ago
MALCOLM Turnbull has been warned by colleagues to reject the Government's emissions trading legislation to avoid a ''damaging rupture in the Coalition'', amid speculation his leadership may not survive
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The global warming conspiracy: its silencing of the sceptics
Herald Sun - 98 Minutes ago
This time weâ??ll focus on the sheer thuggery of the â??The Teamâ? - how this conspiracy of powerful alarmist scientists tried to drive sceptics and non-allies out of their jobs, and even succeeded.
The global warming conspiracy: how it massaged its data Herald Sun
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Don't trade emissions for unity, Turnbull told
Sydney Morning Herald - 73 Minutes ago
OPPOSITION Leader Malcolm Turnbull has been warned to stop championing an emissions trading scheme to avoid a damaging rift in the Liberal Party. Senior MPs say the party must unite and can do so only
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Hot air on climate change
The Age - 2 Hours ago
The Government needs to reclaim the terms of the debate from the sceptics. BRITAIN'S new high commissioner, Baroness Valerie Amos, is somewhat perplexed about where she has found herself on her new posting.
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MidAmerican coal plants in Utah, Wyo. lead Calif.'s first annual emissions count
Climate Wire - 57 Minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's official: The heaviest industrial emitters of greenhouse gases counted by California's regulators as having an impact on the state's economy are owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire
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U.N. officials optimistic about 'political' climate pact
Climate Wire - 57 Minutes ago
UNITED NATIONS -- Top U.N. officials are fighting back against a drumbeat of negative news reports predicting failure at next month's international climate change summit in Copenhagen. They are insisting
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ARB prepares for a year of heavy climate regulation lifting
Climate Wire - 57 Minutes ago
The California agency charged with implementing the nation's most ambitious greenhouse gas emissions cuts has a busy, pioneering year ahead of it. The state's Air Resources Board is expected to finish
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Industry leaders want climate deal
Climate Wire - 57 Minutes ago
Energy industry leaders called for an international deal on climate change yesterday, citing concerns about financial instability and the need to prevent global warming. 'The climate framework is the
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'Plant that ate the South' could move north
Climate Wire - 57 Minutes ago
Climate change could put kudzu on the march, according to a new study that finds the invasive vine could colonize New England by the end of this century. The plant, which now extends as far north as Maryland
'Plant that ate the South' moving north? (ClimateWire, 11/20/2009) Climate Wire
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Green hype, or is biochar the key to carbon control?
Sydney Morning Herald - 64 Minutes ago
IN THE world of climate change solutions, biochar is the celebrity option. Few can explain its sudden fame. Many are not even sure what it does. But the big names have offered their endorsement and there's
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Climate sceptics a danger to themselves and others
Sydney Morning Herald - 76 Minutes ago
If Nick Minchin is so convinced it is 'a disgrace' to describe carbon dioxide as pollution, I encourage Malcolm Turnbull to have one of his staffers nip down to an industrial gases retailer, buy a cylinder
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Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010
Climate Wire - 57 Minutes ago
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called yesterday for all countries to commit to binding climate change targets by next year at the latest, acknowledging that such a deal is unlikely next month. Speaking
Germany's Merkel calls for binding climate change deal next year if none reached Winnipeg Free Press
Germany's Merkel repeats call for climate cut rules Reuters
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Global warming and 9/11
The Nation Pakistan - 3 Hours ago
TERRORISM, economic turmoil and climate change have shaped the 2000s, not only affecting how people live but their language, with 'global warming' and '9/11' topping a list of the most used words of the
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