Former Vice President Al Gore and current White House climate change czar Carol Browner are warning companies and lawmakers that the courts will step in to regulate greenhouse gases if Congress fails to act.

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If civilian deaths from U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan were CO2 emissions, perhaps we'd be having a more effective discussion about reducing them...

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"Barack Obama explained his plan to the San Francisco Chronicle this year, early this year.

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The idea of painting our roofs and roads white to offset global warming is not new, but a recent study has calculated just how significantly white surfaces could impact greenhouse gas emissions.

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How to Reduce Carbon Dioxide, Create Fields of Green in the Desert and Solve Our Dependency on Foreign Oil

There is a lot of buzz about a new technology being touted as a possible solution in the "climate change crisis." It is called a CO2 scrubber, and it removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Just one would take a ton of CO2 out of the air every day.

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It's summertime, and the living is easy -- unless you live in a neighborhood like mine, where the endless drone of lawnmowers, leaf blowers, and other assorted garden care equipment greet us every day. Not to mention our needy lawns. We Americans love our lawns, no question.

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With Peak Oil on the agenda of the G8, it is easy to miss the other story about the end of fossil fuels: Peak Coal.

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An area the size of Belgium could be used to farm enough algae to power the entire world's aircraft, Craig Saddler, president of Boeing Australia told an aviation environment summit in Sydney recently. "Not that we'd actually use Belgium," he added quickly.

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The new way to turn the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel plants into a plastic that can be used to create CDs and beverage bottles, among other things, could be used within a few years.

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Beans in Kenya are produced in a highly environmentally-friendly manner. 'Beans there are grown using manual labour - nothing is mechanised,' says Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones of Bangor University, an expert on African agriculture.

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It flew empty 747-400s - the biggest planes in its fleet - to Hong Kong and Bombay with no one but the crews on board.

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Using one system, which the government presents to the UN and in public, Britain emitted 656m tonnes of CO2 in 2005, and claims an improvement on 1990 figures.

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"I cannot accept the argument that I, as a Chinese, am only entitled legally to one quarter of what you are entitled to," he told AP. But, he added, "being equal to an American when it comes to per capita emissions would be a nightmare for the Chinese."

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Is New York City or any major US city far behind in this???

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Those taking part in the Carbon Fast will be asked to remove one lightbulb from a prominent place in the home and live without it for 40 days.

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1. We ask: "What causes global warming? What is the tipping point?" And... "Why are countries failing to act with any sense of urgency?" What causes global warming? What is the tipping point? 2.

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Much of what you think you know about "clean cars" is wrong, misinformation spread by word of mouth and unreliable blogs (not including this one). Here are some of the prime misconceptions, with corrections applied:

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In a study of 26 biofuels the Swiss method showed that 21 fuels reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 30% compared with gasoline when burned. But almost half of the biofuels, a total of 12, had greater total environmental impacts than fossil fuels.

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Scientists have come up with extreme -- some might say crazy -- schemes to counteract global warming. This year saw the most radical geo-engineering ideas yet: man-made volcanoes, orbiting mirror fleets and ocean re-engineering to cool the planet and absorb carbon dioxide.

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EU ministers have agreed to impose carbon emissions quotas on airlines in an attempt to fight climate change.

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A Developer of an ecofriendly Search Engine called iBlackle confesses of too much farting while programming so he installs a widget to cancel out all the CO2 Emissions he contributed. Then he blames Green Pea and Lentil soup for his toxic fumes.

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While synthetic fuel has the capacity to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, it could also double CO2 emissions produced by military flight.

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Not surprisingly, the US did poorly, ranking 55th, ahead of only Saudi Arabia and 15 spots below fellow greenhouse gas giant China.

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They did, but in a diplomatic way.

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Rising carbon emissions might kill off the ocean's coral reefs by 2050, scientists warn in today's edition of the journal Science. The review article, co-authored by 17 marine scientists in seven countries, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is …

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