UK University to probe integrity of climate data
AP - Thu Dec 3, 5:47 pm ETA British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
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Schwarzenegger Issues California Climate Adaptation Strategy
Environment News Service - 2 hours 24 minutes ago, December 3, 2009 (ENS) - California’s Climate Adaptation Strategy, the nation's first comprehensive, multi-sector analysis of its kind, was released Wednesday.
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Australia's 'cap-and-trade' proposal fails
USA Today - Thu Dec 3, 12:57 am ETAustralia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday.
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Key Scientist Says Politics Behind Stolen E-Mails
Enterprise Security Today - Thu Dec 3, 3:04 am ETHackers stole about a decade's worth of data from a computer server at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. About 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents have been posted on web sites and seized on by climate change skeptics, who say correspondence shows collusion between scientists to overstate the case for global warming.
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Penn St. prof. welcomes climate change scrutiny
WTOL 11 Toledo - Thu Dec 3, 6:01 pm ETA Penn State professor and climate researcher said he welcomes scrutiny into leaked e-mails at the center of an international controversy over what's causing global warming after the university said it would look into the...
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Punish Messenger, Ignore Message?
Fox News - Thu Dec 3, 12:31 pm ETDem senator calls leak of climate scientists' e-mails a 'crime' that should be investigated, as GOP critics wonder — what about investigating e-mails' contents? • EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Hides Info on Self-Greening Plan • Copenhagen Conference to Create Huge 'Footprint' • Did NASA Fudge Data? | Gore Cancels Climate Lecture
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Copenhagen Cop15 conference overshadows global cooling
Maneater - 2 hours 29 minutes agoAs concerns about climate change and global warming increase, Copenhagen, Denmark, will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Nearly 200 nations will be represented for the 12-day meeting beginning Dec. 7, including two MU professors who are attending the conference as observers.
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Ski resorts fight global warming; Utah gov unsure
Vail Daily - Fri Dec 4, 1:25 am ETSALT LAKE CITY - Ski resorts across the country used the Thanksgiving weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season. Warmer temperatures at night are making it more difficult to make snow and the snow that ...
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Governor: Backup plan on global warming needed
San Francisco Chronicle - Thu Dec 3, 12:04 pm ETCalifornia has set an ambitious agenda to combat climate change, but on Wednesday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the state needs to prepare for the worst if human action cannot stop global warming and the rise of sea levels. In an announcement on San...
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The Ministry of Climate Change Misinformation
GOOD - Thu Dec 3, 10:37 am ETA new book exposes the climate change denial machine. I really didn't want to write anything about the stolen climate scientist emails. Besides the fact that the personal accounts of scientists in the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were illegally hacked, the supposedly incriminating quotes were taken well out of context, and, frankly, the actual content of the ...
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Climate fears over India's car boom
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 1:39 am ETNew car buyers like Puneet Masih are not hard to find in India, where the country's fast-expanding vehicle fleet reflects the increasing appetite for private transport among the emerging middle classes.
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Novel carbon-trading scheme could stop large-scale extinctions
Science Daily - Thu Dec 3, 5:11 pm ETSpatial distribution of biodiversity should be taken into account when calculating carbon credits in order to achieve conservation goals as well as greenhouse gas mitigation, argue researchers.
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Nepal ministers gather for Everest meet
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 1:45 am ETNepalese ministers began arriving Thursday in Lukla, one of the main towns in the Everest region, ahead of a high-altitude cabinet meeting to stress the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.
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Global warming expert: Society must adapt like wildlife in hotter climate
KGW NewsChannel 8 Portland - Thu Dec 3, 5:33 pm ETWith the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example' Adapt or die. That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting certain developments, changing farming practices and ultimately moving people, plants and animals out of harm's way. Adapting to ...
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Study: Aspen warm to extra CO2 in air
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Thu Dec 3, 11:24 pm ETThe trees are growing faster thanks to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere linked to global warming.
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People,Places and Things
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 18 minutes agoGENEVA - Authorities acted to protect Roman Polanski from public attention Thursday by moving him from a Zurich area jail to an undisclosed location before his transfer to house arrest in the Swiss Alps.
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UK PM: Extra 5 Billion Tons CO2 Cuts Needed For Climate Talks Success
Nasdaq - Thu Dec 3, 7:32 pm ETLONDON -(Dow Jones)- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday the world needs to cut another 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide on top of current pledges for 2020 in order to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius.
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McCartney pushes Meat-Free Monday to EU
MSNBC - Thu Dec 3, 9:10 am ETThe former Beatle says the production of food — from farm to fork — accounts for 20 to 30 percent of global green house gas emissions.
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Ski resorts fight global warming
Telluride Daily Planet - Fri Dec 4, 1:30 am ETSALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ski resorts across the U.S. are using this Thanksgiving holiday weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season.
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Obama science officials defend global warming research
Idaho Press-Tribune - Fri Dec 4, 1:21 am ETWASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in the House of Representatives 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 does not change that the world is getting warmer. The e-mails from a British university's climate center were obtained by computer hackers and ...
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The View From Here . . .
Garden City News - Thu Dec 3, 9:40 pm ETAs President Obama prepares for his trip to the climate change conference in Copenhagen, the time seems ripe for some serious and critical thinking on this topic.
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London's art world faces up to climate change
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Beatle McCartney has a beef with world climate talks
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The little island and its big, green victory
Fri Nov 27, 3:00 am ESTThe Independent - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - The Danish haven of ...
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U.S. and China to Go to Talks With Emissions Targets
Fri Nov 27, 3:00 am ESTNew York Times - By Edward Wong, Keith Bradsher - Nov. 27 (News ...
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Ind. coal-gasification plant cost reaches $2.5B
Fri Nov 27, 3:00 am ESTAssociated Press - By Charles Wilson - Nov. 27 (News Report) - ...
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Climate change to cost trillions, say economists
Fri Nov 27, 3:00 am ESTAgence France-Presse - By Richard Ingham - Nov. 27 (News Report) ...
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Lowered Expectations
Thu Nov 26, 3:00 am ESTNewsweek - By Daniel Stone - Nov. 26 (News Analysis) - The upcoming ...
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