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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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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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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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KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches - Sat Nov 28, 1:40 pm ET
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...
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Mobile Press-Register - Sat Nov 28, 1:32 pm ET
Politically, the debate still festers over whether the Earth is truly heating up and whether humans are responsible.
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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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ZDNet - Sat Nov 28, 12:50 pm ET
Ten billion for international global warming combat fund.
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redOrbit - Sat Nov 28, 12:07 pm ET
One of the most devastating obstacles to development in Africa is the tsetse fly, which causes a sometimes fatal disease in cattle and humans. Experts fear global warming will cause the flies to spread to new areas.
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Silver City Sun-News - Sat Nov 28, 11:33 am ET
The following editorial appeared in Wednesday's Washington Post: Last weekend was a good one for climate-change deniers.
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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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The Huffington Post - Sat Nov 28, 10:54 am ET
The COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen is a defining moment: We can choose to go down the road towards green prosperity. Or we can choose a pathway to stalemate and do nothing about climate change.
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CBS4 Miami - Sat Nov 28, 10:49 am ET
As the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end on Monday, South Floridians can breathe a sigh of relief as El Niño kept the Atlantic fairly tranquil throughout the summer. But the quiet hurricane season may be a one year wonder, depending on the strength of the current El Niño and according to a new UM study, climate change.
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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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Texarkana Gazette - Sat Nov 28, 9:07 am ET
AMSTERDAM—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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All About Jazz - Sat Nov 28, 8:16 am ET
WHEN Sonny Rollins lifts his legendary horn high and launches into Global Warming, listeners unfamiliar with his ironic sense of humor are sometimes confused. The cheerful melody sits comfortably atop a jaunty calypso beat and can seem at odds with the seriousness of the subject. But the confusion usually fades. As choruses of improvised commentary pour forth from Mr. Rollinss tenor saxophone ...
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The Virginia Gazette - Sat Nov 28, 7:54 am ET
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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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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The Buffalo News - Sat Nov 28, 6:54 am ET
Bing Crosby didn't have to dream of a white Christmas-- he could bank on it.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Sat Nov 28, 6:33 am ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time.
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Environmental News Network - Sat Nov 28, 6:32 am 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". Ban, and Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen who will host the December 7-18 U.N. climate talks, hailed what they portrayed as a growing international momentum toward a pact to curb greenhouse gas ...