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1. China has "No intention" of capping emissions
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China has no intention of capping its greenhouse gas emissions even as authorities are committed to realizing the nation's target to reduce carbon intensity through new policies and measures, the country's ...

2. Ancient hurricanes
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... This showed that the early Pliocene had a weakened atmospheric circulation, and therefore, reduced vertical wind shear, which is favorable for tropical cyclone growth. Next, Emanuel entered data from ...

3. White Roofs Could Reduce Urban Heating (LiveScience.com)
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LiveScience.com - To help combat global warming and urban heating, we might just need to paint the town white.

4. Dems join effort to block global warming rules (AP)
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AP - Three Democratic senators are joining an effort to block the Obama administration from taking steps to reduce the pollution blamed for global warming. ...

5. Obama heads to Copenhagen
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...  Obama is expected to arrive in the Danish capital on Friday morning, joining about 120 other world leaders to finish a complicated process of reaching a political agreement to reduce ...

6. US reveals fund for green tech in poor nations (AP)
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... greenhouse gas emissions and reduce global warming. ...

7. Shun beef to stop climate change, says India (AFP)
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AFP - India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming.  ...

8. Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010 (AP)
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AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen ...

9. One word: bioplastics
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... to engineer crops — including switchgrass — that will grow the plastic directly within the plant. Turning to those agricultural starting materials could help reduce the amount of petroleum needed to ...

10. Bolivia: Lake Titicaca at dangerously low levels (AP)
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AP - Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday. ...

11. The politics of climate fixes
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... two major approaches: pulling carbon dioxide right out of the air, or blocking some percentage of incoming sunlight to reduce temperatures. Drawing upon colorful anecdotes and historical references, Layzer ...

12. U.S. Public Still Unconvinced on Climate Change
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... science to an audience that needs to reduce emissions substantially in order for the world to avoid the most damaging effects of global warming. ...

13. U.S. Public Still Unconvinced on Climate Change
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... science to an audience that needs to reduce emissions substantially in order for the world to avoid the most damaging effects of global warming. ...

14. Renewable fuels may have hidden costs, study says
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... reduce carbon emission by almost four-fifths, Reilly says. The effects are often indirect and hard to measure, because typically the growing of crops for biofuels - whether traditional food crops such ...

15. The easy way to go green
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... voracious appetite for energy, or to reduce or eliminate its environmental impact. Some were as modest as a replacement for a hearing-aid battery, others as large as an offshore drilling platform devoted ...

16. UN: For 7th year, warming emissions grew again (AP)
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AP - 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 ...

17. Biggest economies try again to strike climate deal (AP)
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AP - Representatives of the world's 17 biggest and most polluting nations were holding talks Sunday to search for a breakthrough on financing efforts to contain climate change and reduce gas emissions ...

18. UN talks to end without deal on crucial issues (AP)
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AP - U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching ...

19. Nuke future will combat climate change: Indian PM (AFP)
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AFP - India's prime minister vowed on Tuesday that a massive increase in nuclear power generation over the next four decades would allow the booming country to reduce its impact on global warming.  ...

20. Atomic future will fight climate change: Indian PM (AFP)
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AFP - India's prime minister vowed on Tuesday that a massive increase in nuclear power generation over the next four decades would allow the booming country to reduce its impact on global warming.  ...

21. UN climate chief sees 'significant' Copenhagen deal (AFP)
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AFP - UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said on Friday he believed nations would sign a "significant" deal on how to reduce the effects of global warming at a conference in Copenhagen in December.  ...

22. House passes landmark climate change bill (Reuters)
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Reuters - President Barack Obama scored a major victory on Friday when the House of Representatives passed legislation to slash industrial pollution that is blamed for global warming.

23. Enron Accounting: CBO and EPA Cooked the Books on Cost Estimates for Waxman-Markey Energy Tax
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Later this week, the U.S. House will take up the Waxman-Markey global warming bill, the centerpiece of which is a cap and trade program that advocates argue will reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The ...

24. Vt. farmers cut cows' emissions by altering diets (AP)
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AP - Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy cows' contribution ...

25. Greener diet reduces dairy cows' methane burps (AP)
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AP - Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy cows' contribution ...

26. Canadian scientists breeding cows that burp less (Reuters)
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Reuters - Canadian scientists are breeding a special type of cow designed to burp less, a breakthrough that could reduce a big source of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.  ...

27. Debate rages over climate bill, but what's in it for consumers? (McClatchy Newspapers)
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McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — How much will it cost the average American household to reduce the U.S. share of global warming pollution and shift to cleaner sources of energy produced at home? ...

28. Study: US technology key to China and climate (AP)
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AP - Finding an economical way to capture carbon dioxide from existing coal burning power plants is key to getting China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as well as for U.S. efforts to combat global ...

29. Zero-emission vehicles
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Mitsubishi Motors' new "i-MiEV" is the world's first mass-produced zero-emission minicar. It runs on a motor charged with electricity and emits no carbon dioxide. The i-MiEV reduces the "original sin" ...

30. GOP says Democrats' climate proposal does little (AP)
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AP - The climate change proposal developed by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama does little to reduce global warming and saddles Americans with high energy costs, Republicans ...