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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday he's still optimistic that a political agreement to slow global warming can be reached at next month's international conference on climate change.

Close POWER SHIFT By JEFFREY BALL Two years ago, a United Nations scientific panel won the Nobel Peace Prize after concluding that global warming is "unequivocal" and is "very likely" caused by man.

Hilary Shelton of the NAACP and American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity President and CEO Steve Miller listen as Jack Bonner testifies before the House global warming committee on fraudulent letters sent to Congress on climate legislation.

BEIJING: China and India could use their growing clout to shame developed countries into committing to a climate change deal in Copenhagen in December, the UN's top climate scientist said on Friday.

JIM TANKERSLEY Reporting from Dearborn, MI In an upstairs test lab at the world headquarters of Ford Motor Company, engineers in white coats are revving up a turbocharged engine that screams with the muscle car power that once made Detroit the envy of the world.

Greenhouse gas calculations blame carbon dioxide too much for global warming, and methane too little, suggest researchers Thursday.

Exaggerated and inaccurate claims about the threat from global warming risk undermining efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and contain climate change, senior scientists have told The Times. Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to support an agenda erode public understanding and play into the hands of sceptics, according to experts including a former government chief scientist.

Experts fear that the contribution of natural climate variations towards events such as storms, melting ice and heatwaves is too often overlooked, and that possible scenarios about future warming are misleadingly presented as fact.

“I think we need to be very careful about purporting to be able to supply very detailed and apparently accurate information about how the climate will be in 50 or 100 years’ time, when what we’re really giving is a possible future climate,” Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, added. “We’re not in a position to say how likely it is and what the chances are of it being different. There’s an understandable tendency to want to make climate change real for people and tell them what’s going to happen in their postcode, and that’s very dangerous because it gets beyond the level on which current models can operate.”

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At a meeting hosting by the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Baha'i, Jain and Zoroastrian faiths called on the UK and G20 governments to fight for an ambitious deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions at UN-led talks in Copenhagen in December.

In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York.

The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday.

Home : Canada : Alberta premier rejects Suzuki Foundation report Alberta premier rejects Suzuki Foundation report Date: Thursday Oct.

Go veggie 'to save the planet' Thursday, October 29, 2009, 10:00 Comment on this story THE country's biggest farming body has condemned as "extremely irresponsible" comments by one of the world's leading climate change gurus, that people should give up meat to save the planet.

With the European Union pressed to make a firm climate aid offer to poor nations, Hungary and Poland demanded Thursday that richer states pay a larger share to entice more governments aboard a new global climate change pact.

China's busy climate change diplomacy has become increasingly feverish weeks before crucial talks that could forge a new pact to fight global warming, or end in rancour that could rebound onto the world's biggest emitter.

Published by Michelle Pacey for 24dash.com in Environment and also in Central Government Wednesday 28th October 2009 - 2:28pm Google Earth The UN's top climate official admitted today that a final global warming treaty will be impossible this year.

The Obama administration warned on Tuesday that the U.S. could slip further behind China and other countries in clean energy development if Congress fails to pass climate legislation, as early signs of a rift emerged among Democrats over the bill's costs.

Can climate bill be sold as national security? Senate hearing gets warming warnings from defense world The U.S. military airfield on Diego Garcia, an island in the IndianA Ocean,A is one of many areas vulnerable to rising seas.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate are trying to make progress on a climate change bill to give a boost to an international global warming summit in Copenhagen in December.

The buzz around the December UN climate summit in Copenhagen is increasing. Some of you may be wondering what ita TMs all about.

Six in ten Americans support cap and trade , the mechanism at the heart of climate legislation in US Congress that uses the market to put a price on carbon emissions.

President Barack Obama's visit to China next month is not likely to yield a separate accord on countering global warming, though both countries are pushing for progress for upcoming global talks in Copenhagen, the top U.S. envoy on climate change said Wednesday.

Fulfilling a campaign pledge to tap Silicon Valley innovation to combat global warming, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Monday at Google's headquarters the first federal grants for high-risk, high-reward clean-tech ventures - including revolutionary technologies like using bacteria to create gasoline.

Backers say the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act would cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020.

Top Obama administration officials are looking to make their case before the Senate for aggressive action to combat climate change, even as Republicans show no sign of softening their dislike of a Democratic bill that would dramatically cut heat-trapping pollution.

The UK will miss targets to boost renewable energy and cut emissions which cause climate change in the coming decade, experts have warned.

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Ecuador's president is in London this week to promote a unique proposal: pay his country $3 billion not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon reserve.

Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago.

The United States has to take a strong role if the world hopes to deal with global warming, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate will push climate change legislation that would grant, initially at no cost, pollution permits to an array of industries, similar to legislation passed by the House of Representatives last June.

The federal Energy Department will make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy on Monday, awarding research grants for ideas like bacteria that will make gasoline, enzymes that will capture carbon dioxide to counter global warming and batteries so cheap that they will allow the use of solar power all night long.

State lawmakers from around the West are gathering in the northern Wyoming resort town of Jackson over the next few days to figure out how to get better coordinated on energy issues.

European Union leaders hope to reach a deal at a summit this week removing the last obstacles to a treaty to give the bloc more global clout, but face a battle over funding for a global climate change agreement.

A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm.

CLIMATE activists have gathered on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House and along the city's beaches to kick off an international day of protest about global warming.

Comment about "Thousands gather worldwide on day of climate protests" Phone Name Comment 0 Thousands gather worldwide on day of climate protests AFP A climate activist is pictured on the steps of Paris' former stock exchange during a flash mob called by Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam associations as part of the International Day of Climate Action.

Activists held events around the world Saturday to mark the number they say the world needs to reach to prevent disastrous climate change: 350.

Worldwide protests on Global Warming awareness SYDNEY, Australia Climate activists have been taking part in events around the world to raise awareness of global warming.

The focus of the Saturday rallies was the number 350. Some scientists say that's the level to which atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions, measured in parts per million, should be lowered to prevent dangerous climate change.

A A A' A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Japan cautioned on Friday that it could water down planned 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if other rich nations fail to make deep reductions as part of a U.N. deal due in Copenhagen in December.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., drawing fire from energy industry group after saying he would seek bipartisan consensus on energy and global warming, said Friday reducing pollution and energy independence go together.

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed Friday warned that unchecked global warming could lead to conflicts over resources and called for transfer of capital and technology from developed to developing countries for an equitable solution to climate change.

Rich countries such as Canada need to commit to aggressive new targets to curb global warming, regardless of what less-developed nations do, say a majority of respondents to a new poll.

President Barack Obama said Friday that opponents of his energy bill are disputing the evidence of global warming in a cynical ploy to undermine efforts to curb pollution and steer the nation to greener energy sources.

Just when we were starting to believe the hype that biofuels were safer than fossil fuels interms of greenhouse gas emissions, there comes a study that says they are as dangerous.

Coal shipments remain a vital part... An environmental group has questioned whether U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue can serve on the board of Union Pacific Corp.

Advanced biofuels will stoke global warming: study Biomass, the unused portions of logged trees such a branches and the tree tops, sit at the Old Town Fuel and Fiber mill to be burned to generate electricity in Old Town, Maine in this June 2, 2009 file photo.

The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators looked ahead to crucial climate talks in December.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that the world's poor nations will not sacrifice their development in negotiations for a new climate change deal.

The number of Americans who believe there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming because of pollution is at its lowest point in three years, according to a survey released Thursday.

WASHINGTON - Wisconsin has lost a little ground in energy efficiency, but it still ranks among the top states, according to a new report released Wednesday.

Two British Cabinet ministers are showing off a doomsday vision of disappearing cities and rising seas in an effort to push nations to strike a new pact on curbing emissions of global warming gasses.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has given the go-ahead for a groundbreaking class-action lawsuit over global warming to proceed.

Utah lawmakers are getting competing views on climate change, one emphasizing the vast scientific consensus about warming trends and man's influence and another raising doubts about the root causes.

The Maldives will convene a summit next month of countries suffering some of the worst impacts of climate change ahead of a global conference on the issue in Copenhagen, government officials said.

India and China, both major polluters and crucial players in fighting global warming, agreed Wednesday to stand together on climate change issues at a major global conference later this year.

October 20, 2009 - Mohawk Fine Papers is the latest company to resign from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate policy.

The University of South Carolina is getting nearly $5 million in federal funds to study possible ways to curb climate change.

Winter fuel payments for pensioners are an "unsustainable" response to fuel poverty and should be reconsidered, a report has said.

Space agencies and Google Inc are helping an international project to monitor forests by satellite to fight global warming, the head of an international earth observation group said on Tuesday.

The world has less than two months to agree on how to avoid catastrophic global warming whose impact would be felt for generations, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, a stark warning that puts pressure on the United States to finalize its position before this year's global climate conference in Denmark.

SEDIMENT cores from a small Arctic lake in Canada stretching back 200,000 years show unprecedented gains in global warming since 1950, indicating human activity is the likely cause.

MARKEY bill on climate change that recently passed the House is a train wreck waiting to happen.

A protester walks along police lines during a climate change protest at Ratcliffe Power Station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar yesterday Nottingham: Several hundred environmental protesters converged yesterday on one of Britain's biggest coal-fired power stations in an attempt to shut the plant down.

The two-term senator from South Carolina drew the ire of conservative activists last week after he joined Sen.

Transcript Enlarge Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson says the Obama administration is putting an increased emphasis on the public health effects of greenhouse gases.

As the Senate prepares to tackle global warming, the nation's energy producers, once united, are battling one another over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades.

A change in India's stand on climate change policy would be against national consensus, members of the negotiating team at the climate talks and NGOs said Monday following reports of Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh advocating a softening of the country's position.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will warn representatives of the world's biggest economies Monday that efforts to agree on a new global pact to tackle climate change are a historic test of international cooperation.

Canada's new ambassador to the United States said Alberta's oilsands are facing a "disproportionate amount" of criticism in the climate-change debate - arguing North America risks missing "the big picture" on global warming if Canadian oil is singled out as the chief carbon emissions culprit.

When the EPA recently announced it would begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions from large polluters, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced it would sue and demanded a public hearing to question the link between increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global warming.

Bangalore, Oct 18 : India will soon join a select space club by launching two dedicated satellites in polar orbit to study climate change through atmospheric research and detection of greenhouse gases, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Sunday.

By Lawrence Solomon Fourteen principled companies abandoned the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week in protest over climate change.

The International Herald Tribune, October 15, 2009 Thursday - As world leaders struggle to hash out a new global climate deal by December, they face a hurdle perhaps more formidable than getting big polluters like the United States and China to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: How to pay for the new accord.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell said Saturday he believes the globe is warming but wouldn't fix blame on manmade carbon emissions as its cause.

PORTLAND - The final public hearing on the latest Northwest regional power plan drew a much larger crowd than in the past, as activists continued their push for cleaner energy in the coming decades.

With a deadline looming, pressure was mounting on the United States to finalize its position before a decisive December conference in Denmark meant to cap two years of negotiations on a global climate change treaty.

The smell of manure hangs over Greeley as it has for half a century. These days it's more than just a potent reminder of the region's agricultural roots and the hundreds of thousands of cattle raised on the city's outskirts.

Members of the Maldives' Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth.

Before President Obama even landed at Andrews Air Force Base, returning from his mission to Copenhagen to win the 2016 Olympic Games, Chicago had been voted off the island.

From a nondescript strip mall in Sunnyvale, a company called Picarro is positioning itself to be a leader in greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting.

One is the courtly governor of the Empire State, the other the flashy star of the Golden State.

With small communities the least equipped to cope with climate change, a United Nations-backed pilot project is helping to boost their resistance to coastal erosion, sea-level rise, increasingly erratic rainfall, and other effects of global warming.

Steve Rennie Ottawa - Published on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 5:12PM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Oct.

The Canadian and Alberta governments said on Wednesday they will spend C$779 million on a carbon capture project planned by TransAlta Corp, their second such funding announcement in less than a week.

World climate talks may need extra time next year to agree cuts in greenhouse emissions for 2020 since U.S. laws are unlikely to be in place before a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen in December, experts say.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said this week he wants to make the environment a major issue in the next federal election.

Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist said on Thursday.

International law is unfit to deal with the millions of people expected to flee their home countries to escape droughts and floods intensified by climate change, a group of lawyers said on Thursday.

In a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, ecologists estimate that Arctic lands and oceans are responsible for up to 25 percent of the global net sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Rajendra Pachauri says it is still possible to come to an agreement in December.

A report delivered to the state Legislature recommends 52 possible ways to cut Pennsylvania's global warming pollution.

Political and economic realities threaten the Obama administration and the European Union's mutual quest to combat global warming.

It's amazing what world leaders can do when they come together for a common cause, as they did in Montreal in 1987 to ban CFCs to protect the ozone layer.

This is definitely climate progress. Next up:A urban rickshaws to reduce emissions? From a Newcastle University press release : Growth versus global warming Houses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming.

Today, the California Energy Commission is holding a hearing on the proposed energy efficiency standards for televisions sold in California stores.

UNITED NATIONS -- The chairman of the U.S. Senate's environment committee said Monday that it's possible Congress will pass a bill aimed at slowing global warming before international talks on a deal to limit climate change in Copenhagen in December.

A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened.

In a report two months before world leaders meet in Denmark to find a new deal on global warming, the influential committee warned the government not to rely on the short-lived effects of the recession to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The government's push to abandon much of the Kyoto protocol prompted dozens of developing countries to walk out on Canada's address during recent climate talks in Thailand, The Canadian Press has learned.

Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has pledged to invest more than $1bn of his own money in clean energy technology to tackle climate change .

Greenpeace says South Africa and other developing nations don't have to sacrifice economic growth to do their part to save the planet.

Engineers have performed their magic once again. The world is not going to run short of energy as soon as feared. America is not going to bleed its wealth importing fuel. Russia's grip on Europe's gas will weaken. Improvident Britain may avoid paralysing blackouts by mid-decade after all.

The World Gas Conference in Buenos Aires last week was one of those events that shatter assumptions. Advances in technology for extracting gas from shale and methane beds have quickened dramatically, altering the global balance of energy faster than almost anybody expected.

Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, said proven natural gas reserves around the world have risen to 1.2 trillion barrels of oil equivalent, enough for 60 years' supply – and rising fast. "There has been a revolution in the gas fields of North America. Reserve estimates are rising sharply as technology unlocks unconventional resources."

A key senator on Monday said the committee she leads should approve a bill to tackle global warming before a U.N. climate summit in December, and the U.S. energy secretary said he hoped the bill could be signed into law by then.

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on?

Two months before a crucial UN climate summit African leaders on Friday said the continent needs 65 billion dollars to deal with the effects of global warming .

"We think 65 billion dollars are needed to deal with the effects of climate change on a continental scale. That is to say that our expectations are very high," Salifou Sawadogo, Burkina Faso's environment minister said at the opening of a special forum on climate change. "We are all on the same planet so there is a duty of solidarity to help the most vulnerable countries, like we are, implement policies to adapt to climate change," Sawadogo said.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Environment and also in Housing Monday 12th October 2009 - 9:05am National programme needed to cut UK carbon emissions from homes - report Cutting carbon emissions from homes and buildings will need a national programme of energy efficiency measures delivered on a 'street-by-street' basis, according to a new ...

The high-stakes fight over global warming legislation in Congress has forced American businesses to pick sides.

And the results were clear. "Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity," said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .

Whether to tweak, bolster or bury the Kyoto Protocol -- the only binding global agreement for curbing greenhouse gases -- has become a red-hot issue as UN negotiators in Bangkok try to lay the groundwork for a successor treaty.

A new technique that tapped previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas in the United States is spreading to the rest of the world, raising hopes of a huge expansion in global reserves of the cleanest fossil fuel.

Billionaire George Soros said on Saturday that he would invest $1 billion in clean energy technology as part of an effort to combat climate change.

Nestled in Ohio's Amish country, Bill Belden's 124-year-old family owned brick company has thrived on the region's rich red clay and shale, and cheap energy from abundant coal.Which he's convinced that a climate bill being considered in Congress will end.A cap-and-trade system forcing businesses away from fossil fuels, especially coal, will mean ...

Chinese cyclists passes through thick pollution from a factory. Two weeks of crucial UN climate talks were due to conclude after exposing huge rifts between rich and poor nations, just weeks ahead of the deadline for sealing a planet-saving global deal.

For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into a miniature solar power plant two years ago, each reverse rotation subtracts from their monthly electric bill.

President Barack Obama's so-called green team has undergone a growth spurt. The group of Cabinet secretaries and White House advisers who meet regularly to craft the president's energy and environmental agenda now numbers 13, double what it was during the administration's early days.

Wen Jiabao, Yukio Hatoyama, Lee Myung-bak shake hands before a trilateral leaders summit at Beijing on October 10, 2009.

For the Shaw brothers, who converted the downtown arts building and community center into a miniature solar power plant two years ago, each reverse rotation subtracts from their monthly electric bill.

United Nations climate talks in Bangkok wound up Friday with progress made in finalizing a negotiating text for a climate summit in Copenhagen in December but tough political decisions remain unmade, the secretariat said.

Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009―In the wake of a revelation by a key research institution that it destroyed its original climate data, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned EPA to reopen a major global warming proceeding.

For the first time, climate scientists from across the country have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.

Caption: For the first time at the UN's summit in Copenhagen this December Africa will present a common position.

The floods in south India that have killed at least 350 people and made millions homeless are a result of climate change, said an expert in the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.

It's amazing what world leaders can do when they come together for a common cause, as they did in Montreal in 1987 to ban CFCs to protect the ozone layer.

U.N. climate talks in Bangkok will end Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission targets for rich countries and financing for poor nations, who insist they will not sign a global warming deal unless those matters are resolved.

By CONNIE GUGLIELMO Apple Inc. resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday, the latest company to quit over the business group's opposition to government efforts to limit greenhouse gases.'Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the chamber at odds with us,' Catherine Novelli, Apple's vice ...

Reporting from Washington - The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told reporters this morning that he is "not particularly worried" about a string of high-profile defections -- including the departure of Apple Inc.

Little good can be said about the worst economic slump since the 1930s, but it has produced at least one piece of positive news: the downturn will make it a bit easier to slow the rise in emissions responsible for climate change .

China's top climate envoy insisted Wednesday that it is unfair to expect all countries to play a role in combating global warming, leading to a rare public spat with delegates from the U.S. and Europe.

There are plenty of needy countries at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok that make the case they need financial assistance to adapt to the impacts of global warming.

Hell hath no fury like a U.S. Chamber of Commerce spurned. Perhaps that explains the business trade associationa s response to Applea s very public resignation of its membership in the group this week.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday that recent agreements by members of the 11-state Midwestern Governors Association aim to help make the region a center for clean energy.

UN CLIMATE talks in Bangkok are the most constructive since the 2007 launch of negotiations to deliver a planet-saving pact on global warming, the UN climate chief told AFP Wednesday.

In this handout photograph released by the Maldivian president's office on Sept.

Researchers of the National Space Institute in the Technical University of Denmark have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun that screen the Earth from some of the cosmic rays -- the energetic particles raining down on our planet from exploded stars.

When solar explosions interfere with the cosmic rays there is a temporary shortage of small aerosols, chemical specks in the air that normally grow until water vapour can condense on them, so seeding the liquid water droplets of low-level clouds. Because of the shortage, clouds over the ocean can lose as much as 7 per cent of their liquid water within seven or eight days of the cosmic-ray minimum.

"A link between the Sun, cosmic rays, aerosols, and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale," the report concludes. This research validates 13 years of discoveries that point to a key role for cosmic rays in climate change. In particular, it connects observable variations in the world's cloudiness to laboratory experiments in Copenhagen showing how cosmic rays help to make the all-important aerosols.

President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies on Monday to set ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut energy use, save water and recycle more, urging a government that once ranked among the nation's largest polluters to "lead by example" on environmental protection and energy efficiency.

Acidic clouds are feeding bioavailable iron to the oceans - a discovery which sheds light on the natural processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

An electric power co-op that wants to build a coal-fired plant in northern Michigan has received a $2.7 million federal grant for a project designed to prevent industrial carbon dioxide from contributing to climate change, officials said Tuesday.

An activist group is suing Texas environmental regulators in an effort to force them to consider global warming when approving construction of new coal-fired power plants.

Carbon emissions from a group of richer emerging economies including Russia, China and the Middle East must stop growing by 2020 to control global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

Americans need to be more aggressive in adopting renewable energy, conserving electricity and embracing global efforts to solve climate change, the Danish ambassador to the U.S. said Monday.

THE developing world will suffer about 80 per cent of the damage from climate change despite accounting for only around a third of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the World Bank said on Sunday.

Apple announced Monday that it is resigning from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because it objects to the chamber's recent comments opposing federal efforts to limit greenhouse gases.

In an executive order signed Monday, Obama directed all agencies to set the first-ever targets for reducing climate-altering pollution from government buildings, fleets and federal workers' commutes.

Devastating once-a-century coastal floods could happen every ten years, climate change experts have warned.

China accused rich countries Monday of slowing progress at the U.N. climate talks, contending they are spending their energy trying to dismantle the Kyoto Protocol rather than negotiating the hard targets necessary to reduce emissions.

Minister admits that other rich countries have yet to put money on the table to finance climate compensation and adaptation International development secretary Douglas Alexander Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The $100bn from rich countries proposed by Gordon Brown to compensate developing countries and help them adapt to climate change is a first ...

Adapting to the impact of global warming in developing countries is set to cost around $75 billion to $100 billion a year over the next 40 years, according to a new World Bank study presented today at United Nations climate change talks in Bangkok.

European commissioner reposible for taxation Laszlo Kovacs listens to questions during a press conference after the second working session of the informal ECOFIN meeting at the Eriksberghallen in Gothenburg.

Progress on climate change negotiations, geared towards December's summit in Copenhagen where a new agreement on limiting greenhouse gas emissions is set to be reached, has been mixed at the latest round of talks, a top United Nations official has reported.

With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster Carbon-dioxide emissions are turning the waters of the Arctic Ocean into acid at an unprecedented rate, scientists have discovered.

Istanbul, Oct 4 : Climate change could depress the economic output of Africa and South Asia by as much as five percent per year, the World Bank warned Sunday.

The global warming bill approved earlier this year by the House of Representatives would destroy far more jobs than it could ever possibly create.

BUENOS AIRES, Sep 30 - Climate change aggravates soil degradation, but sustainable use of land resources can, in turn, mitigate global warming, according to participants at the United Nations conference on desertification in the Argentine capital.

Environmentalists are ratcheting up the pressure on General Electric, Caterpillar and Nike to follow the example of several large utilities and quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to protest its stance against climate change legislation.

The United Nations scientist whose report set the global standard for climate change sees biofuels as a good investment bet and advised on Friday that people eat less meat to help curb global warming.

When Greg Nickels became Seattle's mayor in 2002, global warming was hardly at the top of the municipal agenda.

Bill penalizes petroleum and puts small refineries like Ergon-West Virginia Inc.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate, who this week sketched out legislation to tackle global warming, now face the hard part -- convincing enough fence-sitters to join their cause.

U.S. President Barack Obama is unlikely to sign climate legislation ahead of a U.N. global warming meeting in Copenhagen that starts in early December, the White House's top climate and energy coordinator said on Friday.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is scheduled to be in Seattle on Friday to join other members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in announcing a milestone in their attempts to reduce global warming.

Go Lisa, go Lisa, go Lisa, go! Lisa Jackson, the E.P.A.'s administrator, doesn't have time to wait on Congress to politic their way around the massive environmental issues our world is facing.

West Virginia's two U.S. senators offered mixed reactions Wednesday to a new Senate bill that would for the first time place binding limits on the emissions of global warming pollution.

United Nations: UN experts warned yesterday that Asia-Pacific nations and other developing countries need support to combat climate change as they face an intensification of extreme weather such as the Philippine floods.

Democratic Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer offered a plan to limit greenhouse-gas emissions that scientists blame for global warming, saying they will work to get it enacted by December.

Midwestern states should use their abundant natural resources and manufacturing base to build an economy based on clean energy, according to a report to the region's governors.

The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation.

After being applauded for re-engaging in negotiations this year, the American delegation at talks in Bangkok this week found itself at times portrayed much as their Bush colleagues were - as villains who aren't interested in reaching an ambitious global warming deal in Copenhagen when world leaders meet there in December.

In this headline on a New York Times story about difficulties confronting people alarmed about global warming, note the word "plateau." It dismisses the unpleasant -- to some people -- fact that global warming is maddeningly slow to vindicate their apocalyptic warnings about it.