Global Warming
From L to R: Brazilian Deputy Minister of Enviroment Gaetani Francisco, Indian Minister of Environment and Forests Jayanthi Natarajan, China's Vice Chairman for National Development and Reform Commission Xie Zhenhua, and South African Chief Climate Change negotiator Alfred James Wills pose during a press conference at the Tenth BASIC Ministerial Meeting in New Delhi on February 14 ,2011. Environment ministers of India, China and other emerging nations said they strongly opposed the EU's 'unilateral' decision to impose a carbon tax on air travel. The European Union (EU) imposed the tax with effect from January 1, but no airline will face a bill until next year after this year's carbon emissionsa have been tallied.
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Any time we have a meeting of 100 teachers, if you ask whether they're running into pushback on teaching climate change, 50 will raise their hands
There is a growing commonality on global issues ranging from climate change, the G20 process to the WTO negotiations. There is a dramatic growth in bilateral trade, which according to Chinese state councillor reached $73 billion last year
At a time when an increasing number of people are living in hunger and climate change threatens crops, the system that regulates GM food sources ought to become more based on evidence and less subject to the influence of politically motivated NGOsMore quotes »
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China bars its airlines from paying EU carbon tax
Civil Aviation Organization to reach a global agreement.IATA, which represents about 240 airlines that carry 84 percent of global air traffic, estimates the new rules will cost airlines up to 900 million euros ($1.2 billion) this year and rise to 2.8 billion Read more »
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Oreskes: Verdict is in on climate change
Oreskes is a professor of history at the University of California San Diego and co-author of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming." She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times. Read more »
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EU court upholds carbon trade plan for aviation
gases blamed for climate change . It aims to make airlines accountable for their carbon emissions, which contribute to global warming .Although only 3 percent of total human-caused carbon emissions come from aircraft, aviation is the fastest-growing source Read more »
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Europe fights to save cap-and-trade as crisis hits
projects in which CO2 emissions are stored underground so they don't get released into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming . But investing in new technologies like carbon capture and storage only becomes commercially viable at a carbon price of Read more »
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Emissions cuts deal OKd at climate talks
biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming . A package of accords agreed to after marathon UN talks in South Africa extended the 1997 Kyoto Protocol allowing five more Read more »
Around the web
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Soil erosion increasing global warming threat: UNEP
: Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday. Soil contains huge quantities of carbon 1:12 AM from Times of India Read more »
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Steven Goddard: NASA : Lying About The Past
created a very detailed animation of global warming since 1880. There is an incredible amount of misinformation in this video. The first problem is that it starts in 1884, not 1880. But the real problem is that much of their land data is not from any known 12:54 AM from Junk Science Read more »
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Time to take action, says Nailatikau
It’s time to take action against the continuous threats associated with climate change, environmental degradation including frequent flooding and storms says Fiji’s President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau. Speaking at today’s earth hour launch in Suva, Nailatikau 12:54 AM from FijiLive Read more »
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Speaker to discuss local impacts of climate change
MATTAPOISETT — "The Climate in Crisis" is the subject of a talk on climate change to be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Mattapoisett Public Library. Trained by the Gore Climate Change Project, the guest speaker will be Mary Jane Sorrentino, who will focus 12:37 AM from SouthCoastToday.com Read more »
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India, others slam EU aviation cap
The BASIC countries -- Brazil, South Africa, India and China - Tuesday criticised the European Union's (EU) "stubbornness" to go ahead with its aviation cap, saying such unilateral action will jeopardise international efforts to combat climate change. In a 12:11 AM from MSN India Read more »
