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UK University to probe integrity of climate data

AP - 34 minutes ago

A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.

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Google map shows climate-changed California future
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 7:11 pm ET
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.
UN official calls for funds for climate change
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 10:45 am ET
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 envoy says final accord unlikely at climate talks
AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 1:54 pm ET
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.
India to slow carbon emissions growth by 20% to 25%
The Champaign News-Gazette - Thu Dec 3, 11:06 am ET
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 carbon-trading legislation fails
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 8:42 am ET
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.
Copenhagen Climate Talks Must Set Deadline For Treaty -UK Government
Nasdaq - 1 hour 44 minutes ago
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.
E-Mails Won’t Change Climate Science, Holdren Says (Update1)
Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 5:10 pm ET
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, Other Big Developing Countries Reject Copenhagen Climate Plan
Insurance Journal - Thu Dec 3, 6:36 am ET
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 ...
UPDATE:India To Cut CO2 Intensity, Won't Heed Binding Targets
Nasdaq - 2 hours 15 minutes ago
(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.
U.K. Climate Scientist Steps Down After E-Mail Flap (Update4)
Bloomberg - Wed Dec 2, 10:43 am ET
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.
China's Pledge on Carbon Emissions: Is It Enough?
Time Magazine - Wed Dec 2, 6:35 pm ET
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
EPA rejects Inhofe's call for delay on finding
Tulsa World - Thu Dec 3, 3:43 am ET
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 ...
Paul McCartney takes Meat-Free Mondays to EU
Deseret News - Thu Dec 3, 10:52 am ET
BRUSSELS (AP) — Paul McCartney took his 'Meat-Free Mondays' campaign to the European Parliament on Thursday, saying the...
University announces probe of climate research
FOX 11 Tucson - 29 minutes ago
LONDON (AP) — A British university says it's going to investigate whether its scientists fudged data on global warming.
Schwarzenegger Releases Report on Effects of Climate Change
HispanicBusiness.com - 1 hour 49 minutes ago
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.
'Climategate' hits Capitol Hill
KETK 56 Tyler - 2 hours 35 minutes ago
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 ...
GROVES: National sovereignty may melt at climate conference
The Washington Times - Thu Dec 3, 6:10 am ET
OPINION/ANALYSIS: Imagine a team of clipboard-wielding, foreign bureaucrats fanning out across the United States to inspect and report on carbon emissions from American homes and hospitals, farms and factories, schools and power plants. Their reports feed into another batch of international bureaucrats sitting in Geneva, Brussels, or some other European capital. That committee's solemn charge ...
EXTRA:Indian team to Copenhagen to include four youngsters
EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 10:02 am ET
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...
Ancient Animals Fled to Antarctica to Escape Warming
Animal Planet - Thu Dec 3, 7:15 am ET
Find out how one distant ancestor of mammals beat the heat during one of the world's worst mass extinctions.
Study: Major CO2 polluters most vulnerable to ocean acidification
The Washington Times - Thu Dec 3, 9:45 am ET
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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