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  • July 2008

    • Global Warming Caused by ... Cleaner Skies: Study

      New Scientist  |  Jul 10, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Global Warming Caused by ... Cleaner Skies: Study

      (Newser) - Reducing aerosols and other pollutants has been a major part of Europe’s campaign to reduce global warming, but a new study turns conventional thinking on its head, New Scientist reports. "The decrease in aerosols probably accounts for at least half of the warming over Europe in the last 30 years," says a co-author of the study. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Europe  • greenhouse gases  • air pollution  • smog  • meteorology  • aerosol

    • China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Jul 9, 08 8:40 AM CDT

      China, India Reject G8 Carbon Plan

      (Newser) - Neither China nor India agreed to adopt the G8's targets for cutting carbon emissions by 2050 at their joint meeting today. Asia's two big developing economies, joined by Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa, said carbon reductions would endanger their growth and exacerbate poverty, and that rich nations should clean up the mess they had created. The emerging economies' holdout was only one of many signs that the G8 is losing clout, reports the Financial Times. More »

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      China  • climate change  • environment  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • carbon emissions  • Yasuo Fukuda  • G8 summit  • developing countries

    • Vague G8 Goals Deflate Green Hopes

      Time  |  Jul 9, 08 2:08 AM CDT

      Vague G8 Goals Deflate Green Hopes

      (Newser) - G8 leaders are hailing an agreement to cut carbon emissions in half by 2050 as "major progress" in combating climate change—but their failure to come up with concrete shorter-term goals is a major letdown, Bryan Walsh writes in Time . The agreement, so vague it doesn't even say which year is to be used as a starting point, is unlikely to spur the immediate changes needed to avert possible catastrophe. More »

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      climate change  • carbon emissions  • G8 summit  • Group of Eight  • summit

    • G8 Agrees to Cut Emissions 50%

      BBC  |  Jul 8, 08 7:17 AM CDT

      G8 Agrees to Cut Emissions 50%

      (Newser) - The G8 leaders have resolved to cut greenhouse gases in half by 2050, something they’d only agreed to “seriously consider” before. But the US has resisted setting any interim goals, the BBC reports, leading environmentalists to deride the pact. The group will also try to convince some 200 other UN members to agree to the target, to address US concerns that climate efforts must be broad. More »

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      climate change  • greenhouse gases  • G8 summit  • Group of Eight  • carbon dioxide emissions

    • Conservatives Set for Stand on GOP Platform

      Washington Post  |  Jul 7, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      Conservatives Set for Stand on GOP Platform

      (Newser) - Conservatives are concerned John McCain might be a maverick with a pen, and are gearing up for a fight on the Republican Party's official election platform, the Washington Post reports. Loath to imagine where McCain might go on climate change, immigration, stem cells and more, activists are already on platform watch. “There’s no question it’s going to be changed radically,” laments one. More »

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      John McCain  • climate change  • Republican National Convention  • abortion  • campaign finance  • stem cell research  • platforms

    • Global Warming's a Myth; Here's Why People Believe

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 1, 08 9:31 AM CDT

      Global Warming's a Myth; Here's Why People Believe

      (Newser) - Global warming is a bunch of hooey, a “nonfalsifiable hypothesis logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God”—and any discussion of it is not a matter of science but one of “sick-souled religion,” writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal . Evidence has emerged to undercut the theory—expanding sea in in the Antarctic, for example—yet its believers are resolute, Stephens writes. He offers three reasons why. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • religion  • science

  • June 2008

    • US Weather Hell: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

      Washington Post  |  Jun 20, 08 4:18 AM CDT

      US Weather Hell: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

      (Newser) - The US will suffer a wide range of increasingly extreme weather events in the coming decades as a result of global warming—from drought and excessive heat to wildly destructive hurricanes and record floods triggered by intense rains, reports the Washington Post. The grim prognosis was revealed in the latest report by the US Climate Change Science Program, which called extreme weather "among the most serious challenges in coping with a changing climate." More »

    • Where's All the Climate-Change Finger-Pointing?

      Treehugger  |  Jun 17, 08 4:48 PM CDT

      Where's All the Climate-Change Finger-Pointing?

      (Newser) - With the recent rash of severe and terrifying weather events, Treehugger notes a distinct lack of environmentalists pointing to the changes as evidence of global warming. The green site gives five reasons for the absence, starting with the fact that it's no fun to say "I told you so." The list in its entirety: More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • flooding  • severe weather  • global weather

    • Consumers Rattled by 'Green Overload'

      New York Times  |  Jun 15, 08 8:30 AM CDT

      Consumers Rattled by 'Green Overload'

      (Newser) - Inundated with reports on how best to save the environment, many consumers are left confused and suffering from an information overload the New York Times dubs “green noise.” Many eco-facts are contradictory and options are puzzling (is it better, for example, to get a used car, or a hybrid?). Environmental groups worry that too much green noise could stop people from paying attention at all. More »

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      climate change  • environment  • consumer  • advertising campaign

    • Greens May Be OK With Climate Bill's Failure

      New Republic  |  Jun 11, 08 4:59 PM CDT

      Greens May Be OK With Climate Bill's Failure

      (Newser) - Before friends of the environment get too worked up about the death of the 2008 Climate Security Act last week, they should note tepid green support all along. So-called Lieberman-Warner was “easily the most aggressive and comprehensive environmental reform ever” in Congress, Dayo Olopade writes in the New Republic , but a more leftist legislature backed by a Democratic president could likely cut deeper. More »

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      climate change  • renewable energy  • Greenpeace  • Sierra Club  • carbon caps

    • To Fix US Energy Policy, Start Over

      Yale Environment 360  |  Jun 10, 08 6:28 PM CDT

      To Fix US Energy Policy, Start Over

      (Newser) - The US must overhaul its environmental strategy, alternative-energy advocate Denis Hayes writes in Yale Environment 360 , and here's how: Cap carbon at its source—coal mines, oil fields, pipelines—not where it leaves the atmosphere. Promote renewable energy and buy photovoltaic devices in bulk to drive prices down. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • energy  • alternative fuels  • cap and trade

    • Left Has Won (Whoever Wins)

      Salon  |  Jun 10, 08 2:55 PM CDT

      Left Has Won (Whoever Wins)

      (Newser) - After 4 decades, the conservative revolution launched by the likes of G