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The question of how to address global climate change is one of the most confounding on the planet. Experts and world leaders plan to wrestle with the scientific, political and social issues surrounding the topic at an upcoming conference in the Danish city of Copenhagen next week. Here's what you need to know.
Energy recycling pioneer slashes global warming pollution and power costs simultaneously
American ingenuity is alive and well. Or at least it's alive, as evidenced by such recent US inventions as Bacconaise, Snuggies, and credit default swaps....
New Delhi plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent on a voluntary basis in the interest of self-preservation, officials announced.
HEMET, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested the parents of one of two Southern California teens who have been missing since last month, when charred human remains were found in the backyard of the parents' home.
WATERLOO, CANADA--(Marketwire - 12/04/09) - Experts from The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) are available for comment and analysis on the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark from December 7-18. CIGI experts are available to comment from Copenhagen, London (U.K.), Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo. Jason J. Blackstock - CIGI research fellow, research ...
WASHINGTON, DC - Two advocacy groups have filed a petition asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set national limits for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. They say there is no need to wait for Congress to pass a law limiting greenhouse gases because the Clean Air Act already contains the comprehensive, science-based, flexible,and immediately ...
Bob Lutz is a controversial guy: a slick salesman/cheerleader who can get the public riled up about a new car, but also the kind of hothead who's been known to speak before considering the consequences -- like that time he called global warming "a total crock of" hooey. (We paraphrase.) However, at least one critic thinks Lutz might be an ..
An international team of scientists has developed a new method of measuring the absorption of CO2 by the oceans that could become an "early-warning system" for climate change.
Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday. Their report comes just days before President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, to speak at a United Nations conference on climate change.
SPARKS, MD - PHH Arval announced its goal to reduce companywide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 12 percent by 2014 at the Climate Leaders Partners Meeting in National Harbor, Md.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia’s coffee harvest was pared by global warming that will force growers to move to higher altitudes because of damaging heat, a farm leader said.
Global warming, global shmarming. That's a rash statement, but according to current research it may in fact be true. As a die-hard environmentalist, I grew up with the paranoia of global warming and like most, took it for granted. Ever since high school I have been warned of the dangers of fossil fuels and the lack of renewable energy resources.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As nations gather in Copenhagen for the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, BNA is pleased to provide complimentary, real-time reporting and analysis of the landmark event. BNA will offer open access to its World Climate Change Report(R), which contains expert climate change analysis ...
The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) just sent out an email that had an article from The Wall Street Journal promoting about what has been comically...
Politicians are fiddling while the planet burns. What's a voter to do?
A leading researcher at the heart of a raging debate over leaked e-mails about the validity of climate change said Friday that his words have been manipulated and that he is the target of a "smear campaign" by global warming naysayers. "It's an 11th hour smear campaign where they've stolen personal e-mails from scientists, mined them for single words or phrases that can be taken out of context ...
by Jerry James Stone Internet search giant Google has unveiled a version of Google Earth that predicts both sea level changes and wild fire danger caused by global warming. One of the many tools created this month by Google in support of the UN's Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen (a.k.a. Hopenhagen ). Word of the new features first broke when Former Vice President Al Gore introduced them ...
A group of evangelicals, comprised of scientists, economists and theologians, called the mainstream view of pending catastrophe caused by climate change a "hoax" at an event Thursday just days ahead of a key U.N.-sponsored climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Researchers at the universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota found that increases in the climate-changing gas carbon dioxide caused aspens to grow 50 percent faster.
Misplaced priorities
The Independent - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - The Danish haven of ...
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Newsweek - By Daniel Stone - Nov. 26 (News Analysis) - The upcoming ...
