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AUSTRALIAN scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said on Sunday.

Climate change will hit Africa - a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about - first and hardest.

Driving through the verdant timberlands of Oregon's Coast Range, Matt Fehrenbacher pointed out a mountainside where every tree had been clearcut.

Just a few considerations in addition to previous remarks about the explosion of the East Anglia Climategate e-mails in America. The reaction is growing exponentially there. Joe Public, coast-to-coast, now knows, thanks to the clowns at East Anglia’s CRU, just how royally he has been screwed.

The term that Fox News is now applying to the Climategate e-mails is “game-changer”. For the first time, Anthropogenic Global Warming cranks are on the defensive, losing their cool and uttering desperate mantras such as “You can be sceptical, not in denial.” Gee, thanks, guys. In fact we shall be whatever we want to be, without asking your permission.

At this rate, Copenhagen is going to turn into a comedy convention with the real world laughing at these liars. Now is the time to mount massive resistance to the petty tyrants and hit them where it hurts – in the wallet. Further down the line there may be, in many countries, a question of criminal prosecution of anybody who has falsified data to secure funds and impose potentially disastrous fiscal restraints on the world in deference to a massive hoax. It’s a new world out there, Al, and, as you may have noticed, the climate is very cold indeed.

THE ethanol industry, once the darling of corn growers, environmentalists and the auto industry, has fallen on hard times. Producers spent this year caught between falling ethanol prices and rising corn costs, causing many to go bankrupt. In response, they are pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to increase the amount of ethanol they can blend into gasoline to 15 percent, up from the current 10 percent. Allowing this, however, would only double down on a discredited environmental policy without solving the industry’s fundamental economic problem.

The ethanol industry appears to recognize that without government mandates there can be no sustainable market, hence the push for 15 percent ethanol fuel.

Allowing a higher percentage of ethanol in gasoline will not make us less dependent on such foreign energy sources. It will not help the environment. It will not lower consumer prices. And it will result in the poor of the world having less to eat. Instead of raising federal mandates on ethanol, Congress and the Obama administration should end them entirely.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday he was willing to commit his country to "ambitious" global carbon emission cuts, provided others shared the burden.

November 27, 2009: Rather than entering the automobile electronics sector through onboard IT devices like other electronics companies, Delta Electronics has now successfully integrated existing automation, motor, servo-motor and electrical electronics technologies to develop its own petrol-electric hybrid propulsion system.

Is global warming a fact, a theory or a frenzy of political correctness? The latest episode in this debate makes it harder to answer the question.

Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week -- portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories -- does not prove that global warming is a fraud.

Drawing his .40-caliber pistol, Severiano Pontes dashes across the steaming, muddy jungle floor, a hunch telling him what he would find around a bend.

From Beijing to Trinidad, governments are huddling to plan their negotiating strategies at next month's climate summit.

Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming.Still, emission promises by the two countries, the world's biggest polluters, added much-needed momentum as ...

Denmark's climate minister is applauding U.S. and Chinese commitments to curb global warming ahead of next month's summit in Copenhagen.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday named the 26 people he wants to help him drive the EU's day-to-day agenda for the next five years, including nominees for new posts that reflect major shifts in policy priorities, notably climate issues.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to lead a charge in a Commonwealth summit starting tomorrow toward a global climate deal that will be discussed in Copenhagen in two weeks' time.

By MARCO SIBAJA Updated: November 26, 2009, 7:38 PM / Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.

Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.

While the U.S. Senate considers a climate bill aiming to dramatically slash air pollution linked to global warming, Texas Gov.

A NEW speed limit of 55mph should be imposed on drivers to help cut global warming, MPs said last night.

A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that fewer Americans believe in global climate change today than a year ago: Since its peak 3 1/2 years ago, belief that climate change is happening is down sharply among Republicans -- 76 to 54 percent -- and independents -- 86 to 71 percent.