Monday March 12th 2007, 11:09 pm
The British government will publish a draft climate change bill on Tuesday, outlining long-term goals to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent by 2050 while eschewing annual targets.
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British government to publish climate change bill (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Solar Energy Conversion Offers A Solution To Help Mitigate Global Warming (Science Daily)
Monday March 12th 2007, 8:05 pm
Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Last month, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations released a report confirming global warming is upon us and attributing the growing threat to the man-made burning of fossil fuels.
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David Roberts: The Public Doesn’t Understand That Global Warming is Already Hitting (HuffingtonPost)
Monday March 12th 2007, 5:02 pm
A new Gallup poll finds that "most Americans believe it will be a decade or more before the manifestations of global warming begin to wreak havoc." Meanwhile, from Seth Borenstein's account of the leaked draft of the IPCC WGII report (which I wrote about here ): "Changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems on every continent," the report says, in marked contrast ...
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U.S. Wakes Up to Global Warming Impact on Polar Bears (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
Monday March 12th 2007, 10:16 am
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Polar bears are starving near the Arctic Circle. The unfolding tragedy may help highlight one of the planet's gravest threats, global climate change.
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Starving Polar Bears, Melting Sea Ice Highlight Global Warming (Bloomberg.com)
Monday March 12th 2007, 6:16 am
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Polar bears are starving near the Arctic Circle. The unfolding tragedy may help highlight one of the planet's gravest threats, global climate change.
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Brown wants ‘new world order’ to fight global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Monday March 12th 2007, 4:20 am
Gordon Brown, likely to be the next prime minister, will deliver a speech calling for a "new world order" to combat global warming on Monday.
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Starving Polar Bears, Melting Sea Ice Highlight Global Warming (Bloomberg.com)
Monday March 12th 2007, 2:45 am
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Polar bears are starving near the Arctic Circle. The unfolding tragedy may help highlight one of the planet's gravest threats, global climate change.
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