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30 January, 2007 - 19:42 — juerg

Senate climate bill to give free permits: sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. power generating companies would get free pollution permits, at least initially, as part of a compromise climate change bill being written in the Senate that also would give the coal industry $10 billion to develop "clean" technology, sources said on Friday.
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Earlier butterfly emergence linked to climate change

Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been linked to regional human-induced climate change in an Australian-led study. The work reveals a causal link between increasing greenhouse gases, regional warming and the change in timing of a natural event.
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Mexico: Cancun Climate Talks Get Dim Prognosis Nine Months Before Start

Bloomberg: Government negotiators are already writing off chances for a global treaty to fight climate change, nine months before the annual talks begin in Cancun, Mexico. Kunihiko Shimada, principal international negotiator at the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, said yesterday a deal this year is "almost impossible." Jos Delbeke, who spearheads European Union climate policy at the European Commission, ruled out a "comprehensive legal agreement" in 2010. Their remarks call into ...
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Is global warming the new apocalypse?

Times (UK): I spent my childhood bedtimes waiting for war. As the fading evening light turned the roses on my pink curtains into sinister faces, I would wonder why my father had not dug us an underground bunker in the garden. Because one day, I reasoned, someone was going to push the red button, and a mushroom cloud would billow over the horizon and suffocate us in its deadly, iconic grip; and thanks to my stupidly optimistic parents we'd be the only unbunkered family on the street. Children of ...
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Deal nearing on Senate climate bill: lawmaker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate change bill, said a top Democratic lawmaker who discussed ideas with industry groups on Wednesday.
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UK will experience 'long-term transition towards cleaner fuels'

The UK's minister for energy and climate change has suggested that cleaner power supplies will be needed by the country in the future.
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Deal nearing on Senate climate bill: lawmaker

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate change bill, a top Democratic lawmaker said on Wednesday, but details still have to be nailed down.
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U.S. groups want to expand climate bill forestry aid

Reuters: U.S. environmental groups are trying to expand a climate change bill being written in the Senate to help foreign countries pay for enforcing laws they already have in place for protecting forests as one way of reducing carbon pollution. Global warming legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last year would set up financial incentives encouraging new steps in the United States and abroad for reducing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. But there ...
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Africans 'take blame for climate change'

BBC: Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests. The report, the most extensive survey ever conducted on public understanding of the issue, found that others blamed God for changes in weather patterns. It suggests dealing with climate change poses similar challenges to HIV and Aids, as people lack key information. It was carried out for the BBC World Service trust and ...
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Climate change and habitat loss posing great threat to Europe's small creatures

Irish Times: THE LATEST European Red List, commissioned by the EU and released yesterday, shows that habitat loss and climate change are having a serious impact on Europe`s butterflies, beetles and dragonflies. Nine per cent of butterflies, 11 per cent of beetles -- which depend on decaying wood and are essential for recycling nutrients in the soil -- and 14 per cent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction in Europe. Ireland fares relatively well, with just one butterfly under serious ...
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U.S. Chamber petitions EPA to reconsider greenhouse gas endangerment finding

Greenwire: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce petitioned U.S. EPA yesterday for reconsideration of the agency's finding that greenhouse gases "endanger" public health and welfare, a determination that sets the stage for broad climate change regulations. "The Chamber believes that the right way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere is through bipartisan legislation and comprehensive international agreements," said the chamber's chief legal officer and general counsel Steven Law in a ...
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Deal nearing on Senate climate bill: lawmaker

Reuters: The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate change bill, said a top Democratic lawmaker who discussed ideas with industry groups on Wednesday. "We're planning to button up our efforts somewhere I hope next week," Senator John Kerry told reporters after meeting with a coalition that represents automakers, forestry and paper companies, Big Oil, steel, mining, electricity and others. Kerry is working with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and ...
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China's roars grow louder in Year of the Tiger

Agence France-Presse: After running at loggerheads with the West over climate change, human rights and nuclear proliferation, China is now on a collision course with the international community on the value of its currency. Emboldened by its growing power and prosperity, China is striking a more defiant pose on the world stage and becoming less inclined to bow to the demands of the West, analysts say. "Clearly a faction within the Communist leadership believes... it's time for Beijing to impose its ...
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Climate debated should be reframed: Malidives president

Agence France-Presse: The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico seeking a binding climate deal, the president of the Maldives said Wednesday. A price tag needs to be put on "the extent to which we destroy the atmosphere, the extent to which we pollute the atmosphere," President Mohamed Nasheed said at a climate change seminar in Helsinki. Climate change was not about "hugging trees", he said, insisting that beyond the ...
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Australia: Prepare for new farming revolution, CSIRO says

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Australia's peak scientific body, farmers and supermarkets say they are gearing up for a new Green Revolution. In 50 years the world's population will be more than nine billion people, supplies of fertiliser could be severely depleted, and competition for land will have increased. According to CSIRO scientist Peter Carberry, these factors, combined with climate change, will challenge our agriculture industry like never before. Mr Carberry is deputy director of the ...
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UN rules out double track approach on Climate Change

Press Trust of India: Underlining that the UN will lead the climate change negotiations, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has rejected the possibility of a "double track" approach being adopted on Climate Change where simultaneous talks between the big economies run in parallel with the United Nations negotiations. "I think that 'double track' is not desirable at this time. That should be negotiated in United Framework Convention on Climate Change. That is the firm agreement of the member states," Ban said ...
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United Kingdom: Green Investment Bank gathers momentum ahead of budget

Business Green: Establishing a Green Investment Bank -- a concept suggested by all major UK political parties -- must be a top priority if Britain is to make the transition to a low-carbon economy, financial experts said yesterday. "We have to build the institutional capacity to cope with the transition to the low-carbon economy, because we can't depend on what we have,' said James Cameron, vice chairman of Climate Change Capital. "We have to look long-term, and that means creating an institution ...
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Policymakers to get hotline to climate experts

Developing countries will be able to solicit expert advice on meeting climate change challenges through a UK-funded network.
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Miliband unveils industrial drive for carbon capture

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could sustain 100,000 jobs by 2030 and be worth £6.5 billion to the UK economy, energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband claimed today.
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UK will experience 'long-term transition towards cleaner fuels'

The UK's minister for energy and climate change has suggested that cleaner power supplies will be needed by the country in the future.
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Corporate support swells for Earth Hour

Gland, Switzerland: Thousands of offices of some of the world’s leading corporations will be supporting this year’s Earth Hour “lights out” initiative for effective climate change action.

Many of the companies will also be encouraging staff to individually join the expected hundreds of millions of others from every continent who will turn lights off for one hour from 8.30 pm on Saturday, March 27.

The ever-growing list of corporate support around the world for Earth Hour 2010 includes Canon, Coca-Cola, HSBC, Nokia Siemens Networks, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and Wells Fargo. The companies are emphasising that while corporate efforts for Earth Hour are symbolic gestures, they also highlight the critical need for more action around climate protection.

One of the world’s leading financial institutions, HSBC, is taking the opportunity with its commitment of world-wide support to Earth Hour 2010 to reinforce the need for greater consideration of energy use habits.

“HSBC will switch off lights in its offices around the world to highlight to our employees, customers and the public the continued importance of thinking about the way we consume resources,” said Head of Group Corporate Sustainability for HSBC, Mr Simon Martin.

With around 8,500 office locations across 86 countries, HSBC’s worldwide power-down aims to inspire the behavioural change and corporate accountability they feel is required to address the ongoing indiscriminate threat of global warming.

“Climate change remains a clear challenge to human society, and the symbolic act of powering down our offices for an hour is a way of heightening awareness of the need for everybody to act responsibly and cohesively to manage the challenge,” Mr Martin said.

Similarly, communications giant Nokia Siemens Networks will urge its offices worldwide to ‘flick the switch’ on March 27, while at the same time encouraging its 64,000 strong staff and worldwide customer base to be part of a global resolution to climate change.

Coca-Cola will be turning out lights in many offices and bottling facilities around the world while also helping to raise awareness by activating iconic marketing assets.

Wells Fargo, which is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent through energy efficiency efforts in its own operations, is encouraging its customers to participate in Earth Hour through messages on its ATMs expected to reach more than eight million people. The company is also turning off its own non-essential lights where practical. Wells Fargo Green Teams (grassroots groups of Wells Fargo team members that help drive environmental stewardship) are encouraging co-workers to participate in the event.

Mary Wenzel, director of Environmental Affairs at Wells Fargo said, “While the 60 minutes of energy saved during the event is important, the true significance of this event is that it demonstrates that by both working together and also taking personal responsibility for turning off lights, unplugging electrical items and making our homes more energy efficient each of us can make a positive difference.

“Please join us.”

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics' (WWL) will lead up to Earth Hour with an “energy efficiency week” in its main office in Oslo, with staff invited to “find wasted energy in the building”, while WWL offices globally are being encouraged to plan their own activities for Earth Hour.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the world’s largest professional services firm, have conducted a study of the international business community, with some enlightening revelations into attitudes towards the global management of the climate dilemma. Titled Appetite for Change, the world’s most comprehensive survey of its kind reveals that 84% of corporate executives believe global warming will change the way they do business over the next two to three years.

With an extensive program of measured carbon emission targets to meet the impending changes to the international business landscape, PwC will show its commitment to climate action by engaging its offices in more than 150 countries to switch off their lights for Earth Hour 2010, while also encouraging its 163,000 staff to participate in the world’s greatest show of action on global warming.

“The implementation of sustainable business practices is not just an environmental imperative, it’s a commercial one, too,” said Earth Hour Executive Director Andy Ridley.

“Earth Hour brings together cities, communities, businesses and individuals on the journey to positive action on climate change.”



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WWF and IKEA join hands to support Earth Hour

Earth Hour has gained the support of the world’s largest home-furnishing companies, IKEA, to spread the message that a brighter future for all people on our planet requires action from all sectors. We can accomplish so much more by working together.

IKEA and WWF have co-operated together since 2002 towards a decreased ecological footprint by promoting responsible and sustainable use of resources. Today, the partnership includes projects on forestry, climate and sustainable cotton production on three continents.

"We at IKEA recognise that our business will be successful only if there is a sustainable management of the resources we rely on to make our products," says Thomas Bergmark, Sustainability Manager at IKEA.

Last year, almost half of IKEA’s retail countries participated in Earth Hour including activities in the stores as well as to co-workers with the aim of highlighting the importance of fighting climate change. This year the aim is even higher.

"Earth Hour is an opportunity to remind everyone that we - and everyone - must take steps in order to stop climate change. With 123,000 co-workers and 525 million visitors to our store we can make a great impact by raising awareness of the possibilities we all have to make a change," says Thomas Bergmark.

On March 27, IKEA stores around the world will have a variety of activities ranging from turning off the non-essential lighting inside and outside the store, offering "solar-powered-lit" dinners, competitions among customers and co-workers to highlight climate change and Earth Hour.

““Never has there been a more important time or better opportunity for the people of the world to stand up and take the matter of climate change into their own hands. Earth Hour brings together communities, businesses and individuals to show world leaders and, more importantly, show each other, that a resolution to global warming is possible if we work on it together. IKEA is helping to lead the way for positive action,” says Co-Founder and Executive Director of Earth Hour, Andy Ridley.

He continues: "Earth Hour demonstrates the determination of the world’s citizens for a better healthier world. It brings together cities, communities, businesses and individuals on the journey to positive action on climate change."

Earth Hour began in Australia in 2007 and has now spread throughout the world. Last year about 1 billion people participated in Earth Hour. Landmarks like London's Big Ben, The Sydney Opera House and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur switched off their lights to show support.

More than 100 countries will be participating in Earth Hour, surpassing last years total with nearly two weeks to spare. On March 27 from 8.30-9.30 pm - the world will go dark.



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Australia: Bureau of Meteorology backs up climate science data

Radio Australia: The head of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has come out in defence of the science which says that climate change is real. Director Greg Ayers says a century's worth of climate records show definitive evidence that the weather patterns are shifting and the planet is warming. There are more extremely hot days, fewer cold wet ones and the scientific observations confirm it's happening now. His comments follow similar remarks from Australia's peak scientific organisation, the CSIRO, in ...
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United Kingdom: Labour to make energy co-operatives plan a key manifesto pledge

Business Green: The Labour Party is poised to include proposals for new energy co-operatives that could help households reduce energy bills and install green technologies as part of its election manifesto. According to reports in the Guardian, energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband, who also has a central role in drawing up the party's manifesto, is keen to see the UK emulate energy co-operative schemes in the US and Europe that have seen neighbourhoods join forces to negotiate cheaper ...
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Battle Over Calif. Climate Change Law Takes Shape as Warring Parties Reveal Funding Sources

Greenwire: The campaign to put suspension of California's climate change law before voters in November started taking shape this week as warring parties revealed key sources of funding and traded barbs over the nature of their financial support. Opposing the climate law are a Texas-based refining company that operates in California and the anti-tax Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. In documents filed with the California Secretary of State, a group calling itself the California Jobs Initiative ...
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UN climate envoy expects dual-track negotiations

Associated Press: Special U.N. climate envoy Gro Harlem Brundtland says she expects talks on a new climate change agreement to increasingly move outside formal U.N. negotiations. Brundtland says backstage discussions among the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa, will play a critical role leading up to the next major U.N. climate conference in Mexico at the end of this year. The limited accord reached at the last climate summit in Copenhagen emerged from a late-night meeting among the ...
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Climate threatens birds, says new bird report

Physorg: Climate changes will have an increasingly disruptive effect on bird species in all habitats, with oceanic and Hawaiian birds in greatest peril, according to a new report on the state of birds released March 11 by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. "The State of the Birds: 2010 Report on Climate Change" follows a comprehensive report issued last year showing that nearly one-third of the nation's 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline. The ...
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Protected forest areas may be critical strategy for slowing climate change

ScienceDaily: A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that forest protection offers one of the most effective, practical, and immediate strategies to combat climate change. The study was published in PLoS Biology and makes specific recommendations for incorporating protected areas into overall strategies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses from deforestation and degradation (nicknamed REDD). "Deforestation leads to about ...
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10% of Europe's butterflies in danger of extinction, report warns

Guardian: Hundreds of butterflies, beetles and dragonflies are at risk of extinction across Europe with almost one-third of 435 butterfly species in decline, scientists have warned. The loss of habitat caused by intensive farming, climate change, forest fires and the expansion of tourism is threatening with extinction 14% of dragonflies, 11% of saproxylic beetles and 9% of butterflies within Europe, according to the European red list report for the European commission. "When talking ...
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UK will experience 'long-term transition towards cleaner fuels'

The UK's minister for energy and climate change has suggested that cleaner power supplies will be needed by the country in the future.
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UK will experience 'long-term transition towards cleaner fuels'

The UK's minister for energy and climate change has suggested that cleaner power supplies will be needed by the country in the future.
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We must end destruction of planet's 'green lungs'

Gregory Barker MP, shadow minister for climate change, writes for ePolitix.com ahead of his ten minute rule motion on illegally logged timber.
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International development finance agendas at risk of clashing

New York – The world’s nations needed to quickly agree on principles that would avoid different international development finance agendas coming into conflict, WWF warned today.

WWF welcomed a report released by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon today aimed at achieving lagging Millennium Development Goals on the original schedule of 2015, but said there was a risk MDGs and other current development agendas would not be achieved unless each had adequate and quarantined funding.

Also on the international agenda is securing the funding mechanisms for climate adaptation for least developed countries and the low carbon development support promised under the Copenhagen Accord, with the UN Secretary General recently announcing a High Level Advisory Group on climate financing.

“The danger when we have two parallel processes essentially related to development funding is that governments will start to pick and choose priorities and merge funding streams for less overall development funding,” said Kim Carstensen, WWF climate initiative leader.

“The world’s poorest people are due the commitments made to them at the opening of the new millennium and they also are due the world’s assistance in coping with climate change impacts they had almost no role in causing and having a chance to develop without contributing to climate catastrophe.”

WWF is calling for agreements and commitments that Copenhagen Accord related funding be additional to commitments under overseas development aid commitments, including meeting the MDG objectives.

“The MDGs are behind schedule largely because developed countries made funding commitments they did not keep,” said Carstensen. “There are lessons there, both for an accelerated effort to achieve the MDGs on the original schedule and to achieve the funding commitments made under the Copenhagen Accord.”

“Where we should be finding the synergies between the two development agendas is not in mixing up and depleting the funding streams but in emphasising the common objectives.”

“Successful climate adaptation works towards several MDG goals in protecting productive landscapes and marine environments, reducing health risks, achieving food security and empowering women in their communities.”

Keeping the Promise, the new UN outline for achieving the MDGs, breaks new ground by identifying climate change as an issue that will hold back their achievement.

The report also notes that “achieving the MDGs should also contribute to the capacities needed to tackle climate change.”

“We couldn’t agree more,” Carstensen said.


For further information:

Kim Carstensen, Leader Global Climate Initiative, WWF International, k.carstensen@wwf.dk, +4540343635;

Martin Hiller, Head Climate Policy Communications, WWF Int., mhiller@wwfint.org, +41793472256


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Australia 0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years: scientists

Agence France-Presse: Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) head Megan Clark said warming had occurred across the country and during all seasons, with the last decade the hottest on record. "We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate," she told ABC public ...
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Canada: Climate-change scientists feel 'muzzled' by Ottawa: Documents

Canwest News Service: A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada scientists with journalists, says a newly released federal document. "Scientists have noticed a major reduction in the number of requests, particularly from high profile media, who often have same-day deadlines," said the Environment Canada document. "Media coverage of climate change science, ...
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Climate change beyond doubt, says Australian science chief

Radio Australia: The head of Australia's peak science body has spoken out in defence of climate scientists, saying the link between human activity and climate change is beyond doubt. The head of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark, says the evidence of global warming is unquestionable, and in Australia it is backed by years of robust research. Dr Clark says climate records are being broken every decade and all parts of the nation are warming. "We are seeing significant evidence of a changing ...
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Australian cities must transform for population growth

Reuters: Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea. In another city, Australians live on floating island pods with apartments both below and above sea level, the population has shifted from land to the sea because of the sky-rocketing value of disappearing arable land. Climate change has also forced many ...
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White House task force finds gaps in federal global warming strategy

Olympian: Climate change has already wrought "pervasive, wide ranging" effects on the United States, and the federal government has "significant gaps" in its strategy to cope with those effects as they accelerate in the future, a White House task force will warn in a report on Tuesday. The report will call for better risk assessments, more thorough scientific research and improved coordination of federal and local governments in order to handle the impacts of warming temperatures, according to ...
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Climate report shows Australia getting warmer

Reuters: Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports. The scientists said their monitoring and research of the world's driest inhabited continent for 100 years "clearly demonstrate that climate change is real." "We are seeing significant evidence of a changing climate. We are warming in every part of the country during every season ...
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Will fight for Pachauri: Ramesh

India Blooms News Service: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the UPA government will back Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri on the Himalayan glacier issue. "We are backing the IPCC chairman and will fight any attempt to unseat him," Ramesh said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. He further said the Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), suggesting disappearance of Himalayan glaciers by 2035, was based on poorly ...
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EU backs U.N. climate report despite skepticism

Reuters: U.N. climate scientists attacked by skeptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support Monday from European Union environment ministers. Climate skepticism has gathered pace since the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted in January that its latest report in 2007 had exaggerated the pace at which Himalayan glaciers were melting. Last month, it also said it had overstated how much of the Netherlands was prone to sea ...
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As Climate Change debate wages on, scientists turn to Hollywood for help

Christian Science Monitor: Keeping the public looped in on what scientists are discovering has never been easy. For one thing, the traditional explainers – journalists – can distort, hype, or oversimplify the latest breakthroughs. But the need to communicate science broadly and clearly has never been more urgent. Understanding science helps people know "where the truth speakers are on an issue" such as climate change, says Robert Semper, the executive associate director of the Exploratorium, a hands-on science ...
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India: Pachauri not to quit IPCC

Press Trust of India: Apparetly buoyed by government support, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change chief RK Pachauri today said he was in no mood to follow the footsteps of Yvo de Boer, the UN's top climate change official who has quit the post unhappay over the outcome of Copenhagen summit. "Certainly not," Pauchari said when asked if he too would resign like Boer who announced his decision to quit the post last month, apparently unhappy over failure of the Copenhagen summit in December last ...
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United States: New climate report details extreme risk to Isle birds

Honolulu Advertiser: Hawai'i's native birds are among the most likely of any U.S. region to be harmed by ongoing climate change, a new report on the "State of the Birds" shows. A stunning 93 percent of native Hawaiian birds have medium or high vulnerability to climate change, according to the sweeping 2010 report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with government and private conservation groups. It's the second time in as many years that the coalition of bird conservation agencies ...
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Climate report shows Australia getting warmer

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports.
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Deep-sea volcanoes play key climate role: scientists

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A vast network of under-sea volcanoes pumping out nutrient-rich water in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in soaking up large amounts of carbon dioxide, acting as a brake on climate change, scientists say.
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Australian cities must transform for population growth

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea.
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Australia 0.7 degrees warmer over past 50 years

Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change.
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UK will experience 'long-term transition towards cleaner fuels'

The UK's minister for energy and climate change has suggested that cleaner power supplies will be needed by the country in the future.
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UK will experience 'long-term transition towards cleaner fuels'

The UK's minister for energy and climate change has suggested that cleaner power supplies will be needed by the country in the future.
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