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Telluride Daily Planet - 22 minutes ago
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ski resorts across the U.S. are using this Thanksgiving holiday 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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CommonDreams.org - 25 minutes ago
by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - As both Washington and the international community come gradually closer to taking substantive action on climate change at a high-level conference in Copenhagen, a side effect of this progress has been a parallel increase in the intensity of campaigns opposing such action - which may be a factor in the slight dip in the U.S. public's concern about climate change ...
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Topsail Voice - 31 minutes ago
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Nasdaq - 36 minutes ago
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Moving toward a more aggressive carbon tax or emissions-trading system wouldn't necessarily damage an economic recovery and could help restore government finances battered by the global crisis, the International Monetary Fund said in a position note released Friday.
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CommonDreams.org - 40 minutes ago
NEW YORK - The United Nations is to conduct an investigation into emails leaked from a leading British climate science centre which appeared to show some of the world's leading scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work. The University of East Anglia has defended the integrity of the science published by its Climatic Research Unit and its researchers ...
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DePauw - 46 minutes ago
Item #655 of "Things to do Before I Die:" have a meaningful conversation with a famous politician. Status: incomplete. After standing for five hours in Akron, Ohio in 2004, I took an awkward picture with presidential candidate John Kerry, but he didn't have time to talk.
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Bloomberg - 48 minutes ago
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The 17,000 people visiting Denmark for global talks on reducing greenhouse gases will release as much carbon dioxide during the two-week event as about 200,000 U.S. passenger cars do in the period.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 51 minutes ago
Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks.
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Bloomberg - 58 minutes ago
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations’ carbon market has staffing shortages and needs more than six months to streamline approvals for projects to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, said Lex de Jonge , chairman of its regulatory board.
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CNET - 59 minutes ago
The soft-drink company plans to replace hydrofluorocarbon, a contributor to greenhouse gases, in its new vending machines and coolers by 2015.
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CNN - 1 hour 9 minutes ago
Nepal's cabinet met at the base of Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas and adopted a 10-point Everest Declaration.
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Texarkana Gazette - 1 hour 19 minutes ago
With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature’s example: Adapt or die.
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Arkansas News Bureau - 1 hour 22 minutes ago
A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 36 minutes ago
A top UN panel is to probe claims that British scientists sought to suppress data backing climate change sceptics' views, its head said on Friday ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit.
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UPI - 1 hour 48 minutes ago
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 51 minutes ago
More than 100 heads of state or government have confirmed their participation in top-level talks at the end of the UN-led Copenhagen climate conference, Danish government officials said Friday.
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UPI - 1 hour 54 minutes ago
LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Claims British scientists altered global warming data to support arguments it is man-made should be investigated, the U.N. climate change panel said.
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UPI - 1 hour 54 minutes ago
By United Press International NORWICH, England, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.N. officials said they would investigate whether data from an advisory group was manipulated to support positions regarding global climate change.
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The Virginia Gazette - 2 hours 30 minutes ago
JAMES CITY — Sea level and global warming are the topics of a forum next week by the James City County Citizens’ Coalition.
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Fox News - 2 hours 39 minutes ago
The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia.