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AP via Yahoo! News - 51 minutes ago
Ski resorts across the country are using the Thanksgiving weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 2:16 pm ET
Commonwealth nations representing one-third of the world's population threw their weight behind accelerating efforts to clinch an "operationally binding" U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month, their leaders said on Saturday.
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New York Times - Sat Nov 28, 10:12 am ET
Some scientists fear that public confidence in scientific conclusions on climate change has been damaged just as countries prepare to curb greenhouse gases.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 1:47 pm ET
Indian Premier Manmohan Singh said Saturday he was willing to commit his country to "ambitious" global carbon emission cuts, provided others shared the burden.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 2:32 pm ET
Commonwealth leaders representing two billion people on the planet on Saturday threw their combined weight behind upcoming climate talks, driving momentum towards a new carbon-cutting treaty.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 7:22 am ET
Hopes were rising Saturday that a new global climate pact is within reach after rich nations at a Commonwealth summit offered to help poorer countries bear the costs of implementing any deal.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 10:54 am ET
Commonwealth leaders will lobby for an international climate deal that includes $10 billion for next year to help poor and vulnerable states fight the effects of global warming, the Maldives president said on Saturday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 9:47 pm ET
Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
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Fox News - Sat Nov 28, 2:56 pm ET
Warmer temperatures at night are making it more difficult to make snow and the snow that falls naturally is melting earlier in the spring
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The San Angelo Standard-Times - 1 hour 7 minutes ago
SAN ANGELO, Texas —Could it be true that some scientists, who support the theory that humans cause global warming, have tried to intimidate and even blacklist scientists with opposing views?The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations reported recently that e-mails from prominent climate scientists were leaked and posted publicly on the Internet. The e-mails, which were obtained from the ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 3:28 am ET
Hopes suddenly rose that a new global climate pact was within reach after rich nations attending a Commonwealth summit here offered to pay poorer countries to help seal the deal.
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Enterprise Security Today - Sat Nov 28, 3:05 am ET
Hackers stole about a decade's worth of data from a computer server at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. About 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents have been posted on web sites and seized on by climate change skeptics, who say correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 7:44 pm ET
World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 7:07 pm ET
Commonwealth nations Friday joined forces with European and UN leaders Friday to push for a deal to tackle global warming and overcome last-minute haggling threatening to scupper climate talks.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 8:27 pm ET
The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 2:00 pm ET
Leaders of the Commonwealth's two billion people and the UN chief joined Friday to push for a deal at upcoming climate talks to save the planet from catastrophic global warming.
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Time Magazine - Fri Nov 27, 6:24 pm ET
Beijing's decision to bring targets on carbon emissions reductions to Copenhagen is hopeful, but it is important to understand what exactly Beijing is promising -- and what it's not
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The Wenatchee World - Sat Nov 28, 12:58 pm ET
RICHLAND — Ellyn Murphy of Richland is preparing to join 8,000 other concerned world citizens in December at the Climate Change Conference scheduled in Denmark. The conference, with representatives from 192 countries and many nongovernmental organizations, could produce a global agreement to set limits on human-produced greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, or CO2.
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Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter - Sat Nov 28, 5:15 am ET
AMSTERDAM Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the worlds combined pledges ahead of next months climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 10:44 am ET
Leaders of the two-billion-strong Commonwealth and the UN on Friday opened a summit pushing the rest of the world to strike a deal to save the planet from catastrophic climate change.