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President Barack Obama will head to next month's Copenhagen climate summit to offer the first US plan to cut carbon emissions, officials said, reviving hopes the closely watched meeting will succeed.
Police broke up a protest by the environmental group Greenpeace against deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday, arresting 12 foreign and six Indonesian demonstrators, an activist said.
The president decides to attend part of the climate change summit.
China announced plans Thursday to drastically boost its energy efficiency as part of its contribution to the fight against global warming.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit. He will insist America is ready to tackle global warming despite resistance in Congress over higher costs for businesses and homeowners. Obama will attend the start of the conference Dec. 9 before ...
CLIMATEGATE "A computer hacker in England has done the world a service by making available a huge quantity of evidence for the way in which 'human-induced global warming' claims have been advanced over the years," David Warren writes in the Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian newspaper. "By releasing into the Internet about a thousand internal e-mails from the servers of the Climate Research Unit in the ...
With proposals to reduce emissions tied to climate change stalled in Congress, a state works on its own cap-and-trade plan.
Posted: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:05 pm | Updated: 11:00 pm, Wed Nov 25, 2009. Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting greenhouse gases at next month's Copenhagen climate summit.
POST-ABC NEWS POLL | Percentage of U.S. that believes in global warming dips from 80 to 72.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama is pledging a provisional target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, the first time in more than a decade that an American administration has offered even a tentative promise to reduce production of climate-altering gases, the White House announced Wednesday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month to demonstrate his nation's willingness to work with the global community, the government said Thursday.
The president will pledge to cut CO2 emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
Washington Post: Despite Drop, a Majority Still Support National Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
E-mails stolen from a climate research center in England reveal that a small group of scientists has been pressuring scientific journals not to publish reports that cast doubt on climate change. The e-mails raise questions about the impartiality of the peer-review process, which is designed to keep poor science out of the technical literature.
New Zealand's parliament Wednesday approved a scheme aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, but critics immediately said it did not go far enough in the fight against global warming.
Putting his prestige on the line, President Barack Obama will personally commit the U.S. to a goal of substantially cutting...
President Obama will attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month and will commit the United States to reducing its production of greenhouse gases, the White House said Wednesday.
Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
BOULDER - Global warming skeptics claim the e-mails make up a smoking gun. Climate change proponents say there is nothing nefarious about them.
WASHINGTON Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, said U.S. and world officials, as they released studies calculating the health benefits of a less sickly climate.
President Obama will not be present during the climate conference's crucial final negotiations.
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