Dec. 11, 1997: World Signs Onto Kyoto Protocol
Wired News - Fri Dec 11, 12:25 am ETWhat happens at Copenhagen in 2009 is an outgrowth of the first try, at Kyoto. We'll never know if U.S. ratification might have made it work.
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Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists are Today's Flat Earthers
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel - 2 hours 1 minutes agoWhen I was back in eighth grade, my science teacher, Mr. Malone, a brittle old man with a shock of white hair and a stern classroom demeanor, but a sharp sense of humor, had made a banner that ran across the top of the blackboard. It read: “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.”
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World should at least halve CO2 by 2050: draft text
Reuters via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 2 minutes agoThe world should at least halve world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 with rich nations taking the lead, according to a first draft text on Friday seeking to break deadlock on a new climate pact at U.N. talks.
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Morning Roundup
Houstonist - 2 hours 3 minutes agoGovernor Perry aims to rescind the EPA's edict to cut CO2 emissions in light of the global warming email scandal that implicates some scientists in overstating the effects of global warming Nothing says, "I really like you" at Christmas like some hand-made handy crafts Texas killed the whooping crane or so they say Pearland police engaged in racial profiling according Reverend Milton Russaw The ...
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Graham seeks compromise on climate bill
Spartanburg Herald-Journal - 2 hours 4 minutes agoFrom left, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen, John Kerry, D-Mass., meet reporters Thursday on Capitol Hill in Washington during a news conference to discuss comprehensive climate change and energy independence legislation.
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Russia states its conditions for new climate deal
INO News - 2 hours 10 minutes ago(AP:MOSCOW) A Russian presidential adviser insisted Friday that a new global climate change deal should take into account Russia's low greenhouse gas emissions in recent years.
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New Climate Draft Has Gaping Holes at UN Talks
Flathead Beacon - 2 hours 14 minutes agoCOPENHAGEN – A new draft agreement Friday at the Copenhagen climate talks pulled together the main elements of a global pact but left gaping holes on financing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions for world leaders to fill in next week. The six-page draft document distilled a much-disputed 180-page negotiating text, laying out the obligations of industrial and developing countries in curbing the ...
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New climate draft has gaping holes at U.N. talks
MSNBC - 2 hours 17 minutes agoA new draft agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks pulled together the main elements of a global pact but left gaping holes on financing and cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Copenhagen - Greenhouse gas - Environment - Climate - Climate change
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EU Nations Commit $3.6 Billion to Climate Fund
US News & World Report - 2 hours 17 minutes agoLeaders agreed to commit $3.6 billion a year until 2012 to help poorer countries combat global warming.
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ANALYSIS: Is EU climate aid offer enough to secure a Copenhagen deal?
EARTHtimes.org - 2 hours 24 minutes agoBrussels - European Union leaders agreed at a summit in Brussels on Friday to contribute 7.2 billion euros (10.6 billion dollars) to a three-year global fund aimed at helping poor nations deal with global warming. At first sight, the figure looks imp...
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Kerry Trueman: NYC Climate Summit Puts the Focus on Food
The Huffington Post - 2 hours 26 minutes agoGet rich quick! Lose weight fast! We squander billions each year on scams that promise easy money and effortless weight loss. Still, the pounds...
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United Kingdom Scientists Back Climate Science
Enterprise Security Today - 2 hours 37 minutes agoE-mails stolen and released to the Internet appeared to show top climate scientists discussing ways to shield data from public scrutiny and suppress others' work.
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Obama Returns to Health Debate
WHNT-TV Huntsville - 2 hours 37 minutes agoObama's brisk Nobel trip ends, the final push on health care awaits. OSLO (AP) — With a Nobel Peace Prize in hand, President Barack Obama is returning to the grind of governing, refocusing on his top domestic priority as the Senate moves toward a pivotal moment on legislation to remake the nation's health care system.
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China Min: Shocked At US Saying Won't Fund China Climate Fight
Nasdaq - 2 hours 37 minutes agoCOPENHAGEN -(Dow Jones)- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said he is " shocked" about remarks by the U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern that the U.S. wouldn't provide money to help China face the challenges of climate change.
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Chapman University professors head to Copenhagen
Orange County Register - 2 hours 46 minutes agoSix members of the Chapman University faculty are heading for the climate summit in Copenhagen, hoping what they learn will fuel their own vigorous research in the climate-change arena
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Obama to Nominate Nobel Winner to TVA Board
WTVC Chattanooga - 2 hours 50 minutes agoKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - President Barack Obama says he plans to nominate a professor who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors.
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Space agencies join forces to systematically observe climate variables
EurekAlert! - 2 hours 53 minutes ago( European Space Agency ) Over 30,000 people from 190 nations are gathered at the two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. On Thursday about 150 distinguished guests attended an ESA-hosted side event entitled "Global Monitoring of our Climate: the Essential Climate Variables."
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Global warming talks spark friction between US and China
The Christian Science Monitor - 2 hours 54 minutes agoAfter the first week of global warming talks in Copenhagen, disagreements between nations are still evident, particularly between industrial heavyweights the US and China.
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Top China diplomat at climate talks calls U.S. position 'irresponsible'
USA Today - Fri Dec 11, 10:09 am ETOne of China's top diplomats said today that he was "shocked" by extremely irresponsible" comments from his U.S. counterpart at the Copenhagen global warming summit, opening up a diplomatic spat between the two biggest parties.
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Coping With Copenhagen
Journal of Commerce Online - Fri Dec 11, 10:06 am ETWith its dependence on fossil fuels, the transportation industry is certainly an interested party as the U.N. Climate Change Conference convenes in Copenhagen next week.
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‘Greening’ Takes Flight
Journal of Commerce Online - Fri Dec 11, 10:05 am ETA single KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight took off and landed in Amsterdam after only an hour in the air last month, but some hope it carried the airline industry into a new environmental world.
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Brazilian beaches threatened by global warming
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The cost of climate change
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European leaders pledge cash for climate change
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Do Rich Nations Owe Poor Ones a Climate Debt?
Fri Dec 11, 3:00 am ESTTime - By Bryan Walsh - Dec. 11 (News Analysis) - In two decades ...
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Global warming talks spark friction between US and China
Fri Dec 11, 3:00 am ESTChristian Science Monitor - By Peter N. Spotts - Dec. 11 (News ...
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Stolen e-mails embolden climate change skeptics
Fri Dec 11, 3:00 am ESTAssociated Press - By H. Josef Hebert - Dec. 11 (News Report) - ...
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Video: Climate change in Mongolia: The evaporating tourist trade
Fri Dec 11, 3:00 am ESTThe Guardian - By Jonathan Watts - Dec. 11 (Special Report) - Jonathan ...
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Climategate
Thu Dec 10, 3:00 am ESTFactCheck - By Jess Henig - Dec. 10 (Special Report) - Climate ...
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