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Top Indian officials dismissed a draft climate change proposal by Denmark that expects developing economies to peak their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, news reports said Monday.
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- India, the world’s fourth-biggest polluter, said emission reduction offers by rich nations before next week’s climate change talks in Copenhagen are insufficient.
The United Arab Emirates has pledged to stand behind foreign and domestic banks in the country, offering additional money while extolling the strength of the Gulf nation's financial sector as world markets brace for a potential day of reckoning today over Dubai's crushing debt.
Someone hacked into the climate research unit at East Anglia University in England and divulged emails between scientists about their doubts about climate change. "They 'let the polar bear out of the bag' on their questionable tactics used in gathering and analyzing the data," says Matt Harrison, author of The American Evolution and founder of the Prometheus Institute a public policy think tank ...
Wetlands from Bangladesh to Florida submerged. Drought and devastating heat in important granaries such as the Yangtze floodplain in China or Ukraine. Rains that come too often or too hard in India or the U.S. Northeast. The list of potentially devastating impacts from climate change is a long one. But with greenhouse gas emissions continuing to climb and concentrations in the atmosphere rising ...
Climate change issue sheds its boring factor...
Canada said it plans to stick to "modest" targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the climate-change talks in Copenhagen. Prime Minister Stephen Harper rejected U.N. calls for his government to aim for deeper and faster cuts in emissions, The (Toronto) Globe and Mail reported.
A couple of years ago, fellow ScienceBlogger Mark Hoofnagle over at Denialism Blog coined a most excellent term to describe all manners of pseuodscience, quackery, and crankery. The term, " crank magnetism ," describes the tendency of cranks not to mind it when they see crankery in others. More specifically, it describes how cranks of one variety (for instance, HIV/AIDS denialists, will be ...
The world should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels with the bulk of the reduction coming from rich countries, according to a draft proposal by Denmark, host of ...
This December, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to add more hot air to efforts to combat climate change. That is so because although the impacts humanity would like to avoid--fire, flood and drought, for starters--are clear, the right numbers to halt global warming are not. Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the ...
Paul McCartney is urging consumers to fight global warming by going vegetarian at least once a week, ahead of an address he will deliver on Thursday to the European Parliament.
For Leslie Holland-Bartels of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the inclusion of Alaska's polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act was a great accomplishment.
As Air Force One heads to Copenhagen for the climate summit Dec. 9, it will presumably not make a U-turn while flying over the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia near Norwich, England. But perhaps it should. The 61 megabytes...
A week from today, dignitaries from across the globe are to meet in Denmark to try to hash out an agreement on reducing carbon emissions and curbing deforestation.
The National Climatic Data Center reports that there’s a less than 5 percent chance of Alabama getting any measurable snow on Christmas this year.
AUSTIN, Texas----More than half of Americans say they’ve never heard of cap and trade. But a new Web site, GreenDetectives.net, launched today to raise awareness of cap and trade and other complex climate change issues in advance of Copenhagen's historical United Nations climate change conference.
Chris Billman (junior-physics) speaks to a crowd in front of the West Campus Steam Plant at a Penn State Beyond Coal rally this semester. Penn State is planning to upgrade the plant.
Penn State is conducting an inquiry into the controversy surrounding a Penn State professor whose illegally leaked e-mails have sparked an international debate over whether he and his colleagues distorted data on global warming.
Sydney - The Dalai Lama appealed for global action on curbing climate change Monday, telling Australians he took showers rather than baths to help save the planet. The Tibetan spiritual leader urged national governments to put international concerns ...
Last spring, when many people were still only dimly aware of the world climate summit planned for Copenhagen, Josh Minney, a Northeastern University senior, stayed up much of the night writing a paper justifying why he should be allowed to go. He spent months after that trying to raise money and plotting details of a trip he felt could be ...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said there is not enough action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The Independent - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - The Danish haven of ...
New York Times - By Edward Wong, Keith Bradsher - Nov. 27 (News ...
Associated Press - By Charles Wilson - Nov. 27 (News Report) - ...
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Newsweek - By Daniel Stone - Nov. 26 (News Analysis) - The upcoming ...
