UK University to probe integrity of climate data
AP - 34 minutes agoA British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
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A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Google unveiled a map of California's climate-changed future on Wednesday, part of the most populous U.S. state's first steps in planning to adapt to "inevitable" global warming.
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.
Japan's envoy to climate change talks expressed doubt Wednesday that a final agreement would be reached at the UN summit on tackling global warming that starts next week in Copenhagen.
NEW DELHI (AP) – India will significantly slow the growth of its climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions over the next decade as its economy keeps expanding, an official said Thursday ahead of world climate change talks. However, the developing country will not accept a binding emissions reduction target, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said.
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.
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Climate change talks in Copenhagen must set a deadline within the political agreement for finalization of a binding legal treaty, U.K. Energy and Climate Change Minister Ed Miliband said Thursday.
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.
China and other big developing nations rejected core targets for a climate deal such as halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 just five days before talks start in Copenhagen, diplomats ...
(Adds minister's quotes, Greenpeace comment, background.) MUMBAI -(Dow Jones)- India is ready to make a 20%-25% reduction in emission intensity by 2020, but won't accept legally binding targets, raising chances the upcoming global climate change summit won't yield any definite results.
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.
Beijing's decision to bring targets on carbon emissions reductions to Copenhagen is hopeful, but it is important to understand what exactly Beijing is promising -- and what it's not
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe called for a delay Wednesday on a greenhouse gas endangerment finding in light of allegedly stolen e-mails the Oklahoma Republican says show leading scientists apparently manipulated ...
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LONDON (AP) — A British university says it's going to investigate whether its scientists fudged data on global warming.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In 2100, San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf would become Fisherman's Bay, the baseball diamond at AT&T Park would flood and two major Bay Area airports would better serve seaplanes under a climate change model unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Google.
WASHINGTON – 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. The e-mails from a British university's climate center were obtained by computer hackers and posted online about two weeks ago ...
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New Delhi - India's official team to the Copenhagen climate talks would include four young people to convey India's seriousness about securing the future for the next generation, federal Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Thursday. By 2030, 204...
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Some of the world's largest carbon dioxide emitters will suffer the most from ocean acidification as a result of global warming according to a new study by the advocacy group Oceana. Japan, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia -- among the top 10 polluters -- are the most vulnerable to the condition in which carbon dioxide emissions decrease the pH of seawater, killing coral ...
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