Climate Change

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  • EU global warming fund adds to summit tensions

    AFP – 6 mins ago  
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) talks with Swedish Prime... AFP

    COPENHAGEN (AFP) - European nations battled Friday over how much to pay to an international global warming fund while negotiators at the UN climate talks haggled over a text to put to world leaders. Full Story »

  • Draft blueprint targets 1.5-2.0 C maximum warming

    AFP – 21 mins ago  
    A factory chimney in a residential area emits smoke as haze casts... AFP

    COPENHAGEN (AFP) - The first official draft blueprint for a deal at the UN climate talks sees targets of limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2.0 degrees Celsius (2.7 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), according to a document seen by AFP on Friday. Full Story »

  • EU nations to commit $3 billion to climate fund

    AP – 25 mins ago  
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy waves as he arrives on the second... AP

    BRUSSELS - EU nations will commit more than euro2 billion ($3 billion) a year to help poorer countries combat global warming, the leaders of Britain and France said Friday as they sought to bolster climate talks in Copenhagen. Full Story »

  • EU strains to come up with more climate money

    AP – 31 mins ago  
    A man attending the Climate Conference works on his laptop inside... AP

    COPENHAGEN - Negotiators are working in Brussels and Copenhagen to come up with more climate change money for poor countries amid talks on a historic deal to control the world's greenhouse gases. Full Story »

  • EU scrambles through the night to find climate cash

    AFP – 2 hrs 4 mins ago  

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU leaders reconvened Friday after a night of diplomatic arm twisting aimed at securing six billion euros in pledges to help poor nations tackle climate change, and provide a boost to UN climate talks in Copenhagen. Full Story »

  • Uttar Pradesh farmers outsmart nature, adapt to weather shifts

    Reuters – 2 hrs 32 mins ago  
    Manoharchak villagers in flood-prone eastern region of Uttar... Reuters

    GORAKHPUR, India (Reuters AlertNet) - As world leaders and top scientists in Copenhagen debate how to deal with climate change, farmers a world away in flood-prone areas of northern India are taking it into their own hands to adapt to shifts in the weather. Full Story »

  • Farmers outsmart nature, adapt to weather shifts

    Reuters – Fri Dec 11, 2:07 am ET  
    Children in Manoharchak village in  Uttar Pradesh, close to the... Reuters

    GORAKHPUR, India (Reuters AlertNet) - As world leaders and top scientists in Copenhagen debate how to deal with climate change, farmers a world away in flood-prone areas of northern India are taking it into their own hands to adapt to shifts in the weather. Full Story »

  • Stolen e-mails embolden climate change skeptics

    AP – Fri Dec 11, 12:20 am ET  
    Water vapour billows from smokestacks at the incineration plant... AP

    WASHINGTON - At a critical time, the uproar over stolen e-mails suggesting scientists suppressed contrary views about climate change has emboldened skeptics — including congressional Republicans looking to scuttle President Barack Obama's push for mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases. Full Story »

  • US senators show path forward on climate

    AFP – Thu Dec 10, 10:11 pm ET  
    US Sen. John Kerry (R) speaks as Sen. Joseph Lieberman listens... AFP/Getty Images

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Senators unveiled a framework for future US action on climate change, embracing emission cuts in a boost for the Copenhagen summit, but also including controversial measures on nuclear power and offshore drilling. Full Story »

  • Capito plans to attend Copenhagen climate summit

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 5:44 pm ET  

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginia's sole Republican in Congress expects to represent the state and its mining industry at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen. Full Story »

  • UN official warns of climate change's human costs

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 5:16 pm ET  

    UNITED NATIONS - The U.N.'s Emergency Relief Coordinator says the effects of climate change are already being felt across the developing world and he hopes much of the money devoted to the problem will go toward helping it adapt. Full Story »

  • How much EU countries committing to climate fund

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 5:10 pm ET  

    European Union leaders worked at a summit Thursday to come up with money to help pay developing nations to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. Here are some of the pledges made by the 27 EU members so far, to cover the next three years until a new climate pact being negotiated in Copenhagen comes into effect in 2012: Full Story »

  • Obama calls for climate deal, U.S. target under fire

    Reuters – Thu Dec 10, 5:09 pm ET  

    COPENHAGEN/OSLO (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Thursday to break the deadlock at climate change talks in Copenhagen, although many nations accused the United States of lacking ambition. Full Story »

  • Real debate or just hot air? A primer on 'climategate'

    McClatchy Newspapers – Thu Dec 10, 5:02 pm ET  

    WASHINGTON — People who argue that global warming is bogus say that the controversy over leaked e-mails by climate scientists proves that they're right. Their argument boils down to a claim that the 2007 international review of climate science is a fraud. Full Story »

  • Hollywood goes to Copenhagen climate summit

    Reuters – Thu Dec 10, 3:09 pm ET  
    The Hollywood sign is seen on a hazy afternoon in Los Angeles,... Reuters

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Think melting arctic ice caps are the biggest threat from global warming? Dangers to polar bears? Think again, and think fast. Full Story »

  • Entergy CEO: EPA sending Congress message to act

    AP – Thu Dec 10, 1:50 pm ET  

    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Obama administration's moves toward regulating greenhouse gas emissions are sending Congress a message to act quickly on climate change legislation, Entergy Corp.'s chairman and chief executive said Wednesday. Full Story »

  • Soros pitches idea of 100-billion-dollar climate fund

    AFP – Thu Dec 10, 1:19 pm ET  
    US-Hungarian businessman George Soros gives a TV interview during... AFP/DDP

    COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Financier George Soros unveiled a plan Thursday at the UN climate talks to free up to 100 billion dollars (68 billion euros) for poor countries to combat climate change and cope with its impacts. Full Story »

  • Greenpeace protesters breach EU summit security

    AFP – Thu Dec 10, 1:18 pm ET  
    This handout picture released by Greenpeace shows activists of... AFP/BELGA/HO

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - Greenpeace activists breached EU security Thursday to tell European leaders to "wake up" and help save the planet from the increasing threat of global warming. Full Story »

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