Chinese climate negotiators raised the prospect of negotiating a legally binding climate pact at U.N. talks this weekend in South Africa, but the requirements they laid out for reaching that goal might make such a deal hard to reach. In separate remarks to reporters and non-governmental groups, two of China’s top climate officials suggested they might participate in talks aimed at forging a new, enforceable global warming agreement by 2020. That issue, along with the question of whether industrialized countries will agree to a new set of emissions reductions under an existing 1997 climate treaty, are key stumbling blocks in the ongoing climate talks in the coastal city of Durban. Read full article > >

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New research shows the challenges ministers face in trying to curb global warming at the UN climate talks in Durban.

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UN climate talks face challenges

The report predicted that certain types of weather extremes will grow more numerous and more intense as human-induced global warming proceeds in coming decades.

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U.N. Panel Finds Climate Change Behind Some Extreme Weather Events

President Obama said Tuesday that he will decide whether to approve or deny a permit for a controversial 1,700-mile Canadian oil pipeline , rather than delegating the decision to the State Department. The proposal by the firm TransCanada to ship crude extracted from a region in Alberta called the “oil sands” to Gulf Coast refineries has become a charged political issue for the White House. Labor unions and business groups argue that it would create thousands of jobs in the midst of an economic downturn. Environmentalists — who plan to ring the White House in a protest on Sunday — say the extraction of the oil will accelerate global warming and the pipeline itself could spill, polluting waterways and causing severe environmental harm. Read full article > >

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An environmental group is breaking a taboo by directly tying population growth to environmental problems.

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Environmental Group Breaks the Silence on Population Control

Even as other countries take action, the issue is fading from the American agenda.

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News Analysis: Whatever Happened to Global Warming?

Trees, natural carbon sponges, help keep heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But insect and human threats are taking a heavy toll on them.

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Temperature Rising: With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors

A pioneering UK test of a potential technical fix for global warming will be delayed for six months while scientists discuss the project with stakeholders.

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Climate fix tech test put on hold

A pioneering UK test of a potential technical fix for global warming will be delayed for six months while scientists discuss the project with stakeholders.

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Climate fix tech test put on hold

The Republican presidential candidates’ arguments ran into factual hurdles during the debate on Wednesday night.

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Attacking the Democrats, but Not Always Getting It Right

Scientists don’t know if hurricanes are currently getting worse because of climate change, but many say they will get more intense as the climate warms.

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As Climate Changes, Scientists See Irene as a Harbinger

Scientists don’t know if hurricanes are currently getting worse because of climate change, but many say they will get more intense as the climate warms.

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As Climate Changes, Scientists See Irene as a Harbinger

Four years ago in New Hampshire, campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain said to voters, “I do agree with the majority of scientific opinion, that climate change is taking place and it’s a result of human activity, which generates greenhouse gases.” He made global warming a key element of every New Hampshire stump speech. This week in New Hampshire, the governor of Texas and newest presidential contender, Rick Perry, said scientists have manipulated data to support their “unproven” theory of human-influenced global warming. He said increasing numbers of scientists have disavowed the theory altogether. Read full article > >

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Climate-change science makes for hot politics

“I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. I think we’re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. Yes, our climates change. They’ve been changing ever since the earth was formed. But I do not buy into, that a group of scientists, who in some cases were found to be manipulating this data.” Read full article > >

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Rick Perry’s made-up ‘facts’ about climate change

I’m glad Rick Perry is here to tell us these things. Global warming, or climate change, it seems, is a hoax propagated by malignant scientists. Rick Perry will have none of it. It’s, he said Wednesday in New Hampshire, “a scientific theory that has not been proven.” In his book, Fed Up! he called it “all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight.” Read full article > >

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