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Former US vice president and environmental activist Al Gore called Tuesday for world leaders to meet in Mexico City in July to complete a climate treaty under negotiation in Copenhagen.
A protest by African nations accusing rich countries of doing too little to cut greenhouse gas emissions slowed U.N. climate talks on Monday just four days before world leaders are due to forge a deal in Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN (AP) — Al Gore has told the U.N. climate conference that new data suggests that the Arctic polar ice cap may disappear in the summertime as soon as five to seven years from now.Clicking through a slide show Monday in a packed side event, the former U.S. vice president joined the foreign ministers of Norway and Denmark in presenting two new reports on melting Arctic ice.The Arctic ...
Anja Niedringhaus / APAn activist joins demonstrators protesting for a climate change in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday. Predictions of environmental catastrophe caused by global warming that are driving the United Nations' climate talks in Copenhagen aren't scaring Rep....
A wacky conspiracy theorist repeatedly drove from Philadelphia to Manhattan to make death threats against Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly via pay phones, officials said yesterday. Jeffrey Fisher, 48, of Philadelphia, was charged ...
It's World War In 2030 If Obama Fails Climate Test
Embarrassed former VP is forced to admit claim that the Arctic will soon be ice-free wasn't based on climate data • Building Clean Energy Case Before Copenhagen Visit • LIVESHOTS: Front Seat at Copenhagen Conference
The former vice president said new research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years, but the scientist his estimate was based on denies the timeline.
Rep. Bart Gordon, a 13-term congressman from Tennessee, announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, the latest Democrat in a string of retirements.
The atmosphere at the U.N. climate conference grew more tense and divisive after talks were suspended for most of Monday's session - a sign of the developing nations' deep distrust of the promises by industrial countries to...
If Obama fails to become a game-changer in Copenhagen, the climate conference will fail. And without a long-term economic strategy and a leader, we may not survive into the next century.
The European Union says poor countries have stopped their boycott of climate change negotiations at Copenhagen and have found a solution to their dispute with rich nations.
COPENHAGEN (AP) — New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference. This new projection, following several years of dramatic retreat by polar sea ice, suggests that the ice cap may nearly vanish in the summer much sooner than the year 2030, as was forecast by a U.S. government agency ...
One day after he single-handedly killed off a provision to expand Medicare, Sen. Joseph Lieberman is still not promising to support the Democratic health reform bill -- though he told reporters Tuesday that he is getting closer.
The inconvenient truth is that the world is not so much "in the balance."
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The atmosphere at the U.N. climate conference grew more tense and divisive after talks were suspended for most of Monday’s session – a sign of the developing nations’ deep distrust of the promises by industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions. With only days left before the conference closes Friday, at least one world leader said he would come early to try to ...
