India to set Energy Efficiency Targets for Energy Intensive Industries

In a bid to clarify its official stance and pressurize the developed countries ahead of the next month's Copenhagen climate talks the Indian Prime Minister announced ambitious domestic mitigation measures while meeting with EU representatives in New Delhi.

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Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT's peer reviewed work states "we now know that the effect of CO2 on temperature is small, we know why it is small, and we know that it is having very little effect on the climate." The global surface temperature record, which we update and p …

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Apple has never done particularly well in Greenpeace's quarterly Guide to Greener Electronics. In the most recent guide it ranked near the bottom, at number 11 out of 18 electronics manufacturers.

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In what appeared to be the most visible demonstration yet of this week's G-20 summit, four people attached to a massive banner dangled from a Pittsburgh bridge Wednesday to protest the global economic meeting.

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A series of photos by James D. Griffioen, on the Planet Mag website, show the "greening" of Motor City, what used to be one of the country's biggest production centers.

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Typically, our environment and our social health are discussed in separate conversations, maybe blending together only after a catastrophic weather event or conflict. The Happy Planet Index (HPI), however, changes this separation.

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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Cap-and-trade legislation to limit U.S. carbon dioxide emissions has "gotten out of control" and needs to be scaled back in Congress, said former Democratic Senator Timothy Wirth.

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General Motors Corp. said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt rechargeable electric car should get 230 miles per gallon of gasoline in city driving, more than four times the mileage of the current champion, the Toyota Prius. More Articles

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excerpt: ""Last night, in a segment warning of the environmental perils associated with US population growth, The Lou Dobbs Show featured Ben Zuckerman — an anti-immigrant activist who attempted a nativist takeover of the Sierra Club back in 2004.

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David Shonnard, Robbins Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, analyzed the carbon dioxide emissions of jet fuel made from camelina oil over the course of its life cycle, from planting to tailpipe.

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Top US trade and energy officials were set to meet with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Thursday as the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases sought to step up cooperation on climate change.

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Two Republican senators are pressing the administration ahead of an Agriculture Committee hearing next week for a detailed analysis of the impact of climate change legislation on U.S. farmers and ranchers.

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At its most absurd, the argument is that we simply can't afford to protect the environment – that the costs will be so high as to ruin the economy.

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No one knows exactly how much Earth's climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study suggests scientists' best predictions about global warming might be incorrect.

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Climate skeptics~take another look at the Stern Report

There have been a number of columns in the media including here at Newsvine which attempt to challenge the Report produced by Sir Nicholas Stern some two years ago now. For instance this article by JQP1958 title reads as follows:

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What is the opposite of déjà vu? Whatever it is, I experienced it yesterday in a dingy meeting room beneath London's US Embassy talking to Barack Obama's principal adviser about the chance of international agreement to combat climate change.

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I f we were transported forward in time, to an Earth ravaged by catastrophic climate change, we might see long, delicate strands of fire hose stretching into the sky, like spaghetti, attached to zeppelins hovering 65,000 feet in the air.

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... In the days leading up to the vote, Pelosi was at the top of her game, Democrats said.

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"Humans have been wired by evolution to respond to the most immediate threats, ones they can hear or smell or see - like the lions approaching our ancestral watering holes in the Serengeti."

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Mountain ash forests in Australia are the best in the world at locking up carbon, a new study has found. And one of the authors says climate change negotiations should give more attention to protecting forests like these.

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Instead of ducking for cover under the guise of global economic crisis. Polluters should be using the recession to pause reflect and change bad practices. Then energy intense industies have the technology and resources to adapt to a cleaner and profitable future...

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A high-powered group of senior Republicans and Democrats led two missions to China in the final months of the Bush administration for secret backchannel negotiations aimed at securing a deal on joint US-Chinese action on climate change, the Guardian has learned.

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