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Asia on the global warming boil
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2 hours 2 min ago
Asia Times: For anyone interested in the weather, the good news is that 2008 was cooler than the previous year. The bad news is that the world is still getting hotter and that greater variability in weather brought on by climate change resulted in or contributed to extreme weather that killed hundreds of people in Southeast Asia in 2008 and affected the lives of millions across the region. At least so says the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nation's Geneva-based climate ...
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Global warming is a slow drip, drip, drip apocalypse
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Age: IT SEEMS every generation has its own version of the apocalypse. Climate change may be the Armageddon of the new millennium, yet somehow it lacks the menace of, say, an atom bomb. It is destruction by increments. It is hidden in the cracks of a drought. Or a "water crisis", as we city-dwellers call it. Farmland turned to salt pans. Water levels so low that if they were exam results they'd be an "F" for fail. When I think about it, I breathe faster. And since I had children, ...
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Australia: Unsettled weather
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2 hours 2 min ago
Australian: THE pace of global warming remains as much a topic of discussion as does the weather itself. Many climate scientists warn of potentially devastating social, economic and environmental costs because of continuing global warming they blame on human-caused greenhouse emissions. They have advanced their argument to the extent that most Australians accept the world is getting warmer. But we were reminded yesterday when the Australian Bureau of Meteorology released its climate report for last year ...
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Australia: Farms die for Rudd's trees
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2 hours 2 min ago
Australian: CATTLE farmer Neil Graham can see the landscape changing around him as his neighbours sell their properties for plantations, unable to compete against the Rudd Government's generous tax concessions for forestry companies. The passing of legislation by the Government last year to provide tax concessions to spur the planting of carbon-sink forests has created disquiet in many farming communities, including around Mr Graham's picturesque cattle property at Dairy Plains in the Meander ...
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Global Warming Aided By Drought, Deforestation Link
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12 hours 16 min ago
Irvine CA (SPX) Jan 02, 2009 -
In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, a link between drought and deforestation is fueling global warming, finds an international study that includes a UC Irvine scientist.
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Some Climate Impacts Happening Faster Than Anticipated
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12 hours 16 min ago
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 30, 2008 -
A report released today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union provides new insights on the potential for abrupt climate change and the effects it could have on the United States, identifying key concerns that include faster-than-expected loss of sea ice, rising sea levels and a possibly permanent state of drought in the American Southwest.
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Erratic weather hurts Britain's wildlife
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12 hours 16 min ago
London (UPI) Dec 27, 2008 - Britain's puffins are among the wildlife suffering from a second year of erratic weather, the National Trust said Saturday.
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Greenland's Glaciers Losing Ice Faster This Year Than Last Year
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12 hours 16 min ago
Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 23, 2008 -
Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago. The loss of floating ice in 2008 pouring from Greenland's glaciers would cover an area twice the size of Manhattan Island in the U.S., they said.
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Tropics cooled by volcanic eruptions
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12 hours 16 min ago
Paris (AFP) Dec 21, 2008 - Volcanic eruptions have periodically cooled the tropics over at least the last 450 years by spewing out particles that girdle the world at high altitude and reflect sunlight, according to a study released Sunday.
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Climate change slows acid rain recovery
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12 hours 16 min ago
Cardiff, Wales (UPI) Dec 18, 2008 - Welsh scientists say a 25-year study suggests climate change might be hampering the recovery of Earth's rivers from the effects of acid rainfall.
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Global warming causing more tropical storms: NASA
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12 hours 16 min ago
Los Angeles (AFP) Dec 19, 2008 - Global warming is increasing the frequency of extremely high clouds in the Earth's tropics that cause severe storms and rainfall, according to a NASA study released Friday.
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EU parliament approves climate change package
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12 hours 16 min ago
Strasbourg (AFP) Dec 17, 2008 - The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the EU's climate change package, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020, lifting the last hurdle to the ambitious plan.
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Protests heat up over Australia's climate plan
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12 hours 16 min ago
Sydney (AFP) Dec 16, 2008 - Angry protests erupted in Australia on Tuesday as environmentalists accused the government of "surrendering" by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by only five percent by 2020.
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'World is Flat' author calls for radical climate action from Obama
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12 hours 16 min ago
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 16, 2008 - Best-selling author Thomas Friedman on Tuesday praised Barack Obama's new energy team and said the next US president had to insist on a radical environmental agenda to tackle global warming.
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Obama unveils new climate change team
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12 hours 16 min ago
Chicago (AFP) Dec 15, 2008 - President-elect Barack Obama Monday named his energy and environmental chiefs and vowed a new dawn for US leadership to combat climate change after eight years of Republican foot-dragging.
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Walker's World: EU's bad crisis deal
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12 hours 16 min ago
Washington (UPI) Dec 15, 2008 - As usual, the leaders of the 27 EU countries resolved the insults and arguments of the preceding weeks and reached what looked like a reasonable compromise at their summit in Brussels. On examination, however, Europe is paying a steep price for a poor and somewhat squalid deal.
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Satisfaction, anger at outcome of Poznan talks
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12 hours 16 min ago
Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 13, 2008 - For some, a marathon UN conference that ended here on Friday cleared essential ground for building a new treaty on global warming, while others saw it as a disappointment or an outright flop.
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12 hours 16 min ago
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Jeroen van der Veer Challenged
George Monbiot -
13 hours 30 min ago
I grill the chief executive of Shell in the fourth of my aggressive interviews with policy makers.
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Shell’s Game
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13 hours 36 min ago
Why good people do bad things
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