E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to Spin Science
New York Times - 2 hours 53 minutes agoMessages from British climate scientists gave insight into their thinking, and they might be their own worst enemies.
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Hacked E-Mail Data Prompts Calls for Changes in Climate Research
New York Times - Sun Nov 29, 12:21 am ETSome scientists fear that public confidence in scientific conclusions on climate change has been damaged just as countries prepare to curb greenhouse gases.
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BACKGROUND:Copenhagen:the sticking points
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 30, 12:18 am ETBrussels - These are the main problems which negotiators face in Copenhagen from December 7-18 as they try to work out a deal on fighting climate change. ...
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Global warming heats me up
University News - Mon Nov 30, 3:01 pm ETFew things annoy me more than ignorant people who pretend to be experts. I find it particularly offensive considering we are each individually responsible for our own educations. Basically, we have two choices. We can keep our mouths shut about things we don't know or seek out resources to educate ourselves.
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Australians To Breed Sheep That Burp Less
redOrbit - Mon Nov 30, 9:18 am ETAustralian scientists have said they are hoping to breed sheep that burp less as part of efforts to tackle climate change.The scientists have been trying to identify a genetic link that causes some sheep to belch less than others.
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Jim Selman: Climate Change: Too Much At Stake
The Huffington Post - Mon Nov 30, 10:31 am ETTo the extent that we speak from our hearts about the world we want to create, we will attract energy, resources and support--and inspire others to act.
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Time to be skeptical about skeptics
The Wenatchee World - Mon Nov 30, 1:03 pm ETWhen President Obama attends the United Nations meeting on climate in Copenhagen, you can be sure that the deniers of global warming will go on a romp. They’ll dredge up weather forecasters, scientists hungry for attention and various grudge-holders to argue that the Earth’s temperature isn’t rising, or that if it is, humankind plays no part in the process. I’m not a climatologist, and probably ...
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Ski resorts fight global warming
Telluride Daily Planet - Mon Nov 30, 11:45 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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Environmentalists urge 40 pct EU emissions cut
AP via Yahoo! Finance - 1 hour 28 minutes agoThe environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe says if more Europeans used public transport instead of cars that could help the European Union double its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
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Rudd Carbon Bill Faces Senate Test Before Obama Talks (Update1)
Bloomberg - Sun Nov 29, 9:07 pm ETNov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s climate-change legislation faces a renewed fight in the Senate as he prepares to hold talks in Washington today with President Barack Obama on global warming.
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Ski Resorts Fight Global Warming; Utah Gov Unsure
CBS News - Sun Nov 29, 5:02 pm ETSki Resorts Combat Global Warming As A Business Threat While Utah Governor Remains Skeptical
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Delegates discuss way forward in UN climate talks
Park Hills Daily Journal - Mon Nov 30, 11:50 am ETBARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Countries most vulnerable to climate change said Friday they were incensed that rich nations were rethinking the timetable for concluding a global treaty that would hold them to legally binding targets for cutting emissions.
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Climate 'time bombs' stoke scientists' fears
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 3:01 am ETWhatever the outcome of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Nature may have some extremely nasty surprises up its sleeve, say scientists.
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Fossil-Fuel Fumes Exceed Levels to Contain Warming, PwC Reports
Bloomberg - 2 hours 33 minutes agoDec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The world’s factories, utilities and vehicles are spewing too many greenhouse gases to keep the world from excessive warming, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey said.
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Canada may tweak emissions goals before Copenhagen
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 10:55 am ETCanada may make minor adjustments to its targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions before climate talks in Copenhagen next month, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Sunday.
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LED Bulbs Save Substantial Energy, a Study Finds
New York Times - Mon Nov 30, 3:50 pm ETOver the entire life of a bulb, from manufacturing to disposal, the energy used for incandescent bulbs is almost five times that of LED lamps.
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Climate talks on track after Commonwealth boost
AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 2:39 am ETGlobal climate talks to be held in Copenhagen got a big boost on the weekend when leaders representing a third of the planet's population put their full weight behind sealing a deal.
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The "vindication of all kooks" corollary to the principle of crank magnetism [Respectful Insolence]
ScienceBlogs - Mon Nov 30, 6:17 am ETA 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 ...
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ANALYSIS: World without a climate treaty would suffer, but how much?
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 30, 12:18 am ETBerlin - Odds are, most people would not want to live in a world where the worst case scenario of global warming has played out. Average climate change of more than 2 degrees Celcius above pre- industrial levels would have catastrophic effects, says ...
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E-Mail Fracas Shows Peril of Trying to Spin Science
New York Times - Mon Nov 30, 10:57 pm ETMessages from British climate scientists gave insight into their thinking, and they might be their own worst enemies.
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Key Scientist Says Politics Behind Stolen E-Mails
Enterprise Security Today - 2 hours 55 minutes agoHackers 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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Commonwealth big on climate change
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China glaciers disappearing
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Rudd in Washington
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PM's overseas mission
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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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