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Warming Earth Down to Its 'Last Chance': Charles

Prince warns of catastrophe if world continues to balk at taking action

May 28, 09 9:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Prince Charles warned yesterday that the world's unwillingness to take action on climate change means disaster is looming, the Daily Telegraph reports. The prince, addressing the Nobel Laureates Symposium, said that although a "mercifully small—if vociferous—number" of people still reject the science of climate change, a far... More »

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climate change • environment • global warming • Prince Charles • rainforest • deforestation

Energy Chief: Paint World White to Stop Warming

Chu calls for 'new revolution' to combat climate change

May 27, 09 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A colossal coat of paint could do as much to slow global warming as removing all cars from the Earth for 11 years, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a climate change conference yesterday. Chu said painting roofs white and making roads a lighter color—which would reflect heat and reduce... More »

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climate change • global warming • paint • roofing • carbon emissions • energy secretary • Steven Chu

Pelosi Won't Slap China on Human Rights

Long critical of Beijing, speaker will focus on environment in visit

May 24, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like Hillary Clinton before her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will sidestep Beijing's human rights record on her weeklong trip to China that began today, reports the Washington Post. Pelosi, who has been a vocal critic of the Tiananmen Square massacre and Chinese policies on Tibet, says the focus of her... More »

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China • climate change • Nancy Pelosi • human rights • Beijing • Tiananmen Square • Tibet • human rights abuse

 Gore Throws 
 Weight Behind 
 Climate Bill 

Former VP dials Congressional Dems to rally support

May 21, 09 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - With controversial cap-and-trade climate legislation now in committee, former vice president Al Gore has mobilized his lobbying organization and grass-roots movement behind the bill, even calling some wavering Democrats personally, Politico reports. While some groups feel the measure is too soft on polluting industries, the Nobel Prize winner supports its... More »

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climate change • Al Gore • cap and trade • Nobel Prize • carbon taxes • carbon emissions

GOP: Dems Buddying Up to Big Business

Irony-proof party employs new strategy to battle climate bill

May 20, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Senate Republicans are turning the tables on Democrats as the GOP battles a bill to fight climate change, Politico reports. A strategy memo says Republicans should paint the opposition as the party of big business, suggesting Dems are cozying up to “Wall Street traders,” “polluters,” and... More »

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climate change • environment • Democrats • Senate Democrats • Senate Republicans • corporate America • big business • Republicans

Analysis

With Emissions Plan, Obama Swings for the Fences


May 19, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The new, strict and streamlined national fuel efficiency standard President Obama will announce today could be a victory on three fronts, the Climate Change argues in a piece running on the New York Times web site. Obama will boost his climate change cred, help floundering automakers, and resolve the... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • California • fuel efficiency • CAFE standards • auto industry • Obama administration

(Newser) - Top US officials secretly visited China late last year to negotiate a joint climate change agreement, the Guardian reports. Hosting the talks in a hotel in the Great Wall of China, China sought cooperation on carbon capture and storage, and other green technologies. "There are these two countries that... More »

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China • climate change • Bush administration • Barack Obama • United States • climate change legislation

 In Alaska, Melting Glaciers 
 Cause Land to Rise 

Glaciers receding 30 feet each year

May 18, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Around Juneau, Alaska, climate change is causing an unexpected problem, the New York Times reports: As glaciers melt, the land is rising away from the sea. The change—10 feet in about 200 years—is enough to dry up local streams and wetland habitats, and is the result of land... More »

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climate change • Alaska • salmon • Juneau • glacier • wetlands • habitat • Mendenhall glacier

 Belgian City Goes 
 Vegetarian, Weekly 

Ghent officials, schoolkids to observe "veggie day"

May 13, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - In good news for Belgian cows, the city of Ghent this week begins a weekly “veggie day,” on which officials will go vegetarian, the BBC reports. The move is an effort to cut greenhouse gases, almost a fifth of which come from livestock, the UN says; the city... More »

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climate change • food • Belgium • greenhouse gases • global warming • livestock • meat • public health • vegetarianism • overweight • Ghent

ANALYSIS

Climate Change May Usher GOP Into Ice Age

Republican Party ignores young voters' top concern—at its peril

May 8, 09 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - By steadfastly opposing action on climate change, the GOP is signing its own death warrant, writes David S. Bernstein in the Boston Phoenix. The so-called “Millennial” generation—those born in 1980-2000—is 100 million strong, and doesn’t share Republicans' blasé attitude toward the environment. Says a Harvard analyst,... More »

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climate change • cap and trade • Republican Party • millennials

Companies, to Their Lobbyist: Wait, We Care About Climate

Chamber of Commerce faces enviro dissent

May 5, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cracks are appearing in big business’s monolithic opposition to federal moves to prevent climate change. Politico reports that major members of the Chamber of Commerce, including Nike and Johnson & Johnson, are complaining about the Chamber's resistance to measures like the cap-and-trade bill in Congress. A Nike spokeswoman says... More »

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climate change • Johnson and Johnson • Nike • climate change legislation • US Chamber of Commerce

OPINION

Cap-and-Trade Could Help —Not Hurt—the Economy

Fighting climate change can be profitable: Krugman

May 1, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Now that Washington finally has the political will to combat climate change, opponents of environmentalism are pushing a new line: limiting emissions would do further damage to a battered economy. For Paul Krugman, those claims are "junk economics" to go with climate change deniers' "junk science." A... More »

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climate change • environment • cap and trade • economics • investment • green business • carbon emissions

 Antarctic Ice Shelf Crumbles 

Scientists say global warming has made huge Wilkins Ice Shelf unstable

Apr 30, 09 1:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A huge ice shelf in the western Antarctic has become unstable and is beginning to fracture into icebergs, the Telegraph reports. Images from space show that the Jamaica-sized Wilkins ice shelf has lost 270 square miles of ice in recent weeks. Scientists expect the "fragile and vulnerable" shelf to... More »

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climate change • global warming • Antarctica • ice shelf • icebergs • Wilkins Ice Shelf

(Newser) - Al Gore and Newt Gingrich both appeared on Capitol Hill today, arguing for and against Democratic legislation that would shape US policy on energy and the environment, MSNBC reports. Gore said the legislation, which would mandate a sweeping changeover to a green economy in the next 50 years, “has... More »

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climate change • Congress • Newt Gingrich • Al Gore • House of Representatives • green energy • energy bill • House Energy and Environment Subcommittee

Industry Muffled Own Scientists on Warming

Coal, oil, companies suppressed experts' findings for years

Apr 24, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A coalition of industries linked to fossil fuels lobbied for more than a decade to cast doubt on global warming—while the companies' own scientists advised them that climate change was irrefutable, the New York Times reports. The Global Climate Coalition, financed by the oil, coal, and auto industries, conducted... More »

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climate change • environment • global warming • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • coal • Kyoto Protocol • auto industry • carbon emissions • oil industry

(Newser) - The world’s rivers are drying up as climate change worsens and the demand for water increases, the BBC reports. Researchers studying 925 major waterways—from the Ganges to the Colorado—found significantly less fresh water flowing into oceans in 2004 than 50 years earlier. If the trend continues, the... More »

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climate change • global warming • glacier • river • drinking water • water shortage • water supply • scientific study • Colorado River • weather data • Ganges River

(Newser) - The sun may be heading for one of its dimmest periods in history, but that doesn't mean the big star is joining the battle against global warming, according to scientists. The sun hit a 100-year low in sunspot activity last year, reports the Telegraph. More »

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climate change • global warming • space • Earth • sun • extrasolar planets • excessive heat • sunspots • solar activity

Congress Will Likely Pass Up Climate Change for Health Care

Dems think health bill
is easier to pass

Apr 20, 09 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Congress returns from recess today with both health care and climate change on its plate, and it’s looking increasingly likely that it will favor the former, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Health-care reform should be first among equals,” says one rep. Though he also expects to... More »

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climate change • health care • Congress • Environmental Protection Agency • health care reform • EPA

(Newser) - The dirty fumes of leaded gas may have curbed global warming for a few decades in the 20th century, the New Scientist reports. Researchers in Washington state have found that lead particles are key to creating ice crystals, which help form clouds—which aid global cooling by reflecting sunlight back... More »

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climate change • global warming • sunlight • particle physics • gasoline

(Newser) - By issuing its long-awaited “endangerment finding” on carbon yesterday, the EPA is essentially putting a gun to Congress’ head, writes Bryan Walsh in Time. Capitol Hill is loathe to regulate carbon emissions, with Republicans and coal-state Democrats worried about the economic fallout. But by ruling that carbon is... More »

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climate change • energy • Congress • cap and trade • Environmental Protection Agency • carbon emissions • EPA

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