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Sierra Sun - 1 hour 35 minutes ago
You may have noticed that all is not well in the Global Warming industry. The release by hackers of over a thousand emails and documents from the U.K.'s University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit is causing quite a stir with name-calling, accusations and important resignations reaching all the way to American Universities. Unfortunately for the Global Warming proponents, the leaked ...
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The Christian Science Monitor - 1 hour 54 minutes ago
At the Copenhagen global warming talks, high-level delegations have arrived to kick negotiations into high gear. But the question of money to help poorer nations grapple with the effects of climate change remains a sticking point.
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North South Brunswick Sentinel - 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Alot of heat — and not so much light — has been made about the U.S. House vote this summer to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which will start to move this country to a clean energy economy.
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 19 minutes ago
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Xie Zhenhua was head of China’s state environmental protection agency in 2005 when a toxic spill almost ended his career. Four years later, Xie leads a Chinese delegation at odds with the U.S. at Copenhagen’s climate talks.
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The Prairie Advocate - 2 hours 23 minutes ago
Members of Rockford Tea Party call upon Illinois Congressman Don Manzullo (R-16) to demand congressional hearings concerning the deception practiced by the Global Warming lobby, called “Climate-Gate.” Emails and documents reveal that the temperature records of the last 150 years have been destroyed.
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The Prairie Advocate - 2 hours 24 minutes ago
The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England has long been regarded as the leader in providing information on climate change. In November, e-mails, computer code and data from the CRU was made public by a whistleblower.
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CNN - 2 hours 26 minutes ago
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told nations that they had the chance to "change the course of our history" if they worked together to limit carbon emissions that are blamed for increasing global temperatures.
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 33 minutes ago
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- For Jairam Ramesh , India’s environment minister, United Nations climate-change talks in Copenhagen are as much about easing poverty in his country as preventing the world from overheating.
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Boston Globe - 2 hours 33 minutes ago
By Matt Viser and Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff US Senate candidates Martha Coakley and Scott P. Brown today had their most bitter exchange of the campaign to date, sparring throughout the day over whether Brown had changed his position on...
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 34 minutes ago
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- World leaders will arrive in the Danish capital of Copenhagen over the next three days to agree on a pact to fight global warming. There may be nothing to sign.
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WQOW Eau Claire - 2 hours 53 minutes ago
The White House on Monday announced a new program drawing funds from international partners to spend $350 million over five years to supply developing nations with clean energy technology to curb greenhouse gas emissions and...
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Bloomberg - 2 hours 54 minutes ago
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest obstacle to a new climate agreement in Copenhagen is the existing global accord, the Kyoto Protocol , an Obama administration official said.
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Daily Record - Tue Dec 15, 7:04 pm ET
The recent controversy over leaked e-mails among some climate-change scientists should be no more than a momentary diversion for the American public.
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Scientific American - Tue Dec 15, 7:03 pm ET
SAN FRANCISCO--The Himalaya Mountain region is warming up three to five times faster than the global trends--or about half a degree Celsius per decade--and many of its glaciers are rapidly losing mass. Greenhouse gases alone cannot explain this warming, however, and several new studies are pointing to an old form of pollution: soot. [More]
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 15, 6:58 pm ET
President Barack Obama has expressed confidence a climate deal can be clinched as dozens of world leaders gather on Wednesday to try to break a deadlock at U.N. climate talks.
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Scientific American - Tue Dec 15, 6:48 pm ET
COPENHAGEN--The Altiplano, or high plain , of Bolivia and Peru is getting a new climate. In the past 60 years, temperatures have risen, rainfall patterns have changed and soils have begun to dry out even further. As a result, farmers move their crops further up the mountainsides, like endangered species seeking refuge at cooler elevations. Floods and frosts remain the biggest threats but when ...
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The Huffington Post - Tue Dec 15, 6:39 pm ET
We are nearing the end of two weeks of climate negotiations and heads of state are starting to arrive, but we are leagues away from...
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WDIO Duluth - Tue Dec 15, 6:37 pm ET
COPENHAGEN (AP) - The top U.S. envoy at the climate talks in Denmark is defending his country's target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Todd Stern says the target is "equal to or higher" than most of what the European Union is proposing.
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National Geographic - Tue Dec 15, 6:33 pm ET
The environment—and the environmental movement—suffered significant setbacks in 2009, experts say. Among the lowlights: Lemurs became food, a lot of ice became water, and in the Caribbean some sharks became nonexistent.
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The Wenatchee World - Tue Dec 15, 6:30 pm ET
COPENHAGEN (AP) — A showdown between the world’s two largest polluters loomed over the U.N. climate talks today as China accused the United States and other rich nations of backsliding on their commitments to fight global warming. Trying to ease the tension, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said rich and poor countries must “stop pointing fingers” and should increase their pledges to cut ...