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2010 ties 2005 as warmest year on record worldwide
It's a tie: Last year equaled 2005 as the warmest year on record, government climate experts reported Wednesday.
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Carbon taxes are the answer to the stalled climate negotiations
For global warming policy, the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Copenhagen Summit) was a major disappointment. Designed to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, the Summit concluded ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Climate is warming - despite 'ups and downs'
Periodic short-term cooling in global temperatures should not be misinterpreted as signalling an end to global warming, according to an Honorary Research Fellow with CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Barrie Hunt.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 28, 2010 |
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US southwest could see 60-year drought: study
An unprecedented combination of heat plus decades of drought could be in store for the Southwest sometime this century, suggests new research from a University of Arizona-led team.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Bolivian says climate talks may commit 'ecocide'
(AP) -- Bolivia's President Evo Morales, addressing a U.N. climate conference with modest goals, said Thursday that governments will be committing "ecocide" if they fail to act decisively to halt global warming.
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Climate scientist warns world of widespread suffering if further climate change is not forestalled
One of the world's foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don't moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Compromise spirit at climate talks in last days
(AP) -- It may not last, but a spirit of compromise seems to have settled over the annual U.N. climate conference as negotiators enter its final days looking for agreements on secondary tools for coping with ...
Dec 07, 2010 |
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UN weather agency: 2010 among 3 hottest years
(AP) -- The U.N. weather agency says 2010 is "almost certain" to rank among the three hottest years on record.
Dec 02, 2010 |
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US, China move closer on key climate issue
(AP) -- Prospects for a limited deal at the latest climate talks appeared to brighten with the U.S. and China narrowing differences on a key element: how to monitor greenhouse gas emissions.
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Frustrations show as climate talks resume
(AP) -- Frustrated at past failures, climate negotiators began a critical two-week conference Monday with a call from Mexico's president to think beyond their nations' borders and consider all humanity as ...
Nov 29, 2010 |
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A world warmed by 2 or 4 degrees Celsius poses many challenges
Oxford scientists have contributed to a series of research papers about the impacts of global warming to coincide with the opening of the Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Experts split on global warming, highland malaria link
Malaria cases in east African highland areas hitherto unaffected by the disease have caused worry that global warming is creating new mosquito breeding grounds but experts disagree on whether there is actually ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 28, 2010 |
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India seeks to resolve climate disputes in Cancun
(AP) -- India is making two proposals for the U.N. climate summit in Cancun in hopes of redefining its global image as a constructive negotiator by helping to resolve disputes that have stymied agreement on curbing greenhouse ...
Nov 28, 2010 |
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Urging evolutionary biologists into the fray
A Harvard botanist is citing climate change lessons learned at Walden Pond and urging evolutionary biologists into the global warming fray, where their knowledge of species’ genetic relationships can ...
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Expect more rain, heat and hurricanes, say scientists
Hungry polar bears gathering along the tundra, twice as many record-breaking temperatures and stronger hurricanes are among the latest signs of climate change, scientists say.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 18, 2010 |
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