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PR Newswire via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 3:23 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the leading research and public policy institution focusing on issues of concern to African Americans and other people of color, has been granted Civil Society Observer Status for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) that will convene next week in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Texarkana Gazette - Wed Dec 2, 9:02 am ET
It dawned with the warmest winter on record in the United States. And when the sun sets this New Year’s Eve, the decade of the 2000s will end as the warmest ever on global temperature charts.
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Detroit News - Wed Dec 2, 1:03 am ET
Cleveland man charged with killing 11 women; EU to China: Detail emissions plan; Report: Traveling mom smothers baby
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US News & World Report - Tue Dec 1, 11:07 am ET
Officials are optimistic that Copenhagen will produce meaningful targets to cut carbon emissions.
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The Huffington Post - Wed Dec 2, 8:45 am ET
A few weeks ago, hackers broke into the emails of one of the Climate Research Unit of The University of East Anglia, and climate skeptics have been having a field day making mountains out of molehills about what the emails contain.
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Enterprise Security Today - Wed Dec 2, 3:08 am ET
More than a decade of correspondence between British and U.S. scientists is included in about 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents posted on web sites following the security breach.
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Enterprise Security Today - Wed Dec 2, 3:04 am ET
Unknown hackers stole thousands of e-mails and documents, dating from 1996 to 2009, from the University of East Anglia. In the e-mails, researchers discuss problems with data, models and outside critics of their research.
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The Capital Times - Wed Dec 2, 5:23 am ET
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany — In this nation that embraced one of the world’s most aggressive campaigns against global warming, the Pokropp family can almost hear the cha-ching when switching off their lights.
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USA Today - Mon Nov 30, 6:58 pm ET
The CRU scandal unearths some very inconvenient truths -- namely that scientific as well as journalist tribalism have stifled the debate.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 5:08 pm ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s top science adviser said evidence that human activity is contributing to global warming won’t be shaken by an investigation into whether climatologists suppressed data about climate change.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 10:40 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Claims that scientists suppressed data about global warming prompted the head of a British university’s climate research center to step down pending completion of an investigation.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 4:23 pm ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s top science adviser said evidence that human activity is contributing to global warming won’t be shaken by an investigation into whether climatologists suppressed data about climate change.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 5:44 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Claims that scientists suppressed data about global warming prompted the head of a British university’s climate research center to step down pending completion of an investigation.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 2, 10:45 am ET
Developing countries will need tens of billions of dollars each year to cope with the effects of climate change such as floods and drought, the global head of the U.N.'s development arm said.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 2, 8:42 am ET
Australia's Senate on Wednesday defeated the government's plan to implement a carbon pollution trading system to fight global warming, dashing hopes of setting an example for other nations at U.N. climate change talks next week.
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Seattle Times - Wed Dec 2, 6:50 pm ET
House Republicans pointed to controversial e-mails leaked from climate scientists and said it was evidence of corruption. Top administration scientists looking at the same thing found no such sign, saying it doesn't change the fact that the world is warming.
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Enterprise Security Today - Wed Dec 2, 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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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 6:55 am ET
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil, whose Amazonia rainforest is the biggest in the world, wants a new climate agreement to limit the use of forests to slow global warming, putting a crimp on investors hoping to create carbon credits from trees.
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USA Today - Tue Dec 1, 5:31 pm ET
The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 2, 8:23 am ET
Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.
