UK PM Gordon Brown warns that Copenhagen negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse", telling the Major Economies Forum in London there was "no plan B".

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"heroes ...who lead from the bottom up, corralling support for their cause by being passionate, committed and practically engaged. If the politicians can only delay and equivocate, we must take matters into our own hands."

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Backers of this as-yet-unproven concept secured a big endorsement and much-needed cash with the U.S. Department of Energy's recent award of $338 million in federal stimulus funds for geothermal energy research.

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Sri Lanka Minister: "So in Copenhagen, developing countries will have a moral high ground... developed countries only have brute force and concepts like Climate Nazism, Climate Racism and Climate Terrorism. "

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Lovelock: "We have enjoyed 12,000 years of climate peace since the last shift from a glacial age to an interglacial one. Before long, we may face planet-wide devastation worse even than unrestricted nuclear war ..."

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World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.

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Official Australian report based on conservative IPCC projections : with a sea-level rise of 1.1 meters about two million Australians would become refugees and have to leave their homes and the places they love.

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There's a fairly basic question about climate policy that gets asked a lot: Can a cap-and-trade program actually cut carbon-dioxide emissions? Set aside the question of cost and the endless debate over whether a mythical carbon tax would be sleeker.

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According to this report from top newspaper The Age (Melbourne): "The Government will permanently exclude agricultural emissions and give farmers access to credits for good farming practices such as tree planting."

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the 16,200 churches and other buildings owned by the Church of England emit about as much carbon dioxide as the entire country of Gambia Of course, if they don't go to church they probably play badminton in stead ;-)

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Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

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China, the world leader in both economic growth and carbon emissions, faces the dilemma of how to respond to the challenges of global warming while not harming its robust economy.

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The boreal forest stores more carbon than any land-based ecosystem on the planet, according to a new report that says the Amazon is no match for Canada's boggy bush. North America's boreal forest contains nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, says the  …

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Greenland, which is a part of Denmark now with home rule government, will be severely affected by climate change. [...] Therefore it sounds like a joke when Greenland wants to emit 14 times more CO2 per citizen. It would mean 170 tons pr.citizen.

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A group of tribal, advocacy, environmental and legal organizations is requesting that tribes support climate legislation, especially given current incentives proposed in Congress. Leaders from the allied organizations, the National Wildlife Federation, the National Congress of A …

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New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.

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WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee cleared its version of a climate and energy bill, despite a Republican boycott of the vote and a "no" from powerful Montana Democrat Max Baucus.

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More telecommuting, more traffic circles and more mass-transit options will help the county reduce emissions of climate-warming gases, according to a new report from the University of San Diego School of Law that recommends solutions large and small for policymakers.

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New research shows that destroying the world's tropical forests doesn't lead to the amount of man-made emissions as previously claimed by a U.N. study.

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Home to three of Australia's four dirtiest power stations and none of the 12 biggest renewable energy plants... less than 2 per cent of electricity clean ... brown coal accounted for 94 per cent of electricity, with gas 4 per cent.

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The taxpayer-funded research organization CSIRO has reportedly stopped publication of a peer-reviewed research article by a top ecological economist critical of Obama-style carbon trading-based ETS approach

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Fire broke out yesterday on the oil rig, which has been leaking oil into the Timor Sea for 10 weeks (100x100 km) . Oil field operator PTTEP Australasia said the West Atlas rig and Montara well-head platform were on fire.

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Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) finalized a months-long process with their endorsement of direct carbon pricing, with revenue recycling as the preferred method for reducing carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.

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"Toyota has long faced the criticism that the process of manufacturing Priuses has a larger environmental impact than most cars.

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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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