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Sunday, 06 July 2008
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Goodbye air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter days.
That's been the trend in Europe for the past three decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred.
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When 600 climate scientists from 40 countries reported in February that there was, for the...
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The charged and complex debate over how to slow down global warming has become a lot more ...
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Lewis Ziska, a lanky, sandy-haired weed ecologist with the Agriculture
Research Service o...
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New research warns measures to cut greenhouse gases need to be ramped up to keep tempera...
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The hundreds of fires hitting California right now are a wake-up
call to both governmen...
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China has clearly overtaken the United States as the world's leading emitter of carbon dio...
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Fewer but more intense hurricanes may form in the Atlantic Ocean as the
globe warms towar...
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Greenhouse gases are at higher levels in the atmosphere than at any
time in at least 800,...
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 One of the most vivid symbols of global warming is the torrents of melt water that drain from the lakes that form each summer on Greenland's ice sheet.
Recent studies have shown that this water, which flows deep into the ice through natural drainpipes called moulins, allows th... |
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 Researchers have discovered that carbon dioxide emissions associated with UK consumption increased by 115 million tonnes (18 per cent), between 1992 and 2004.
The results are an outcome of a research project undertaken by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) part of the D... |
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 Australia's leading climate guru on Friday laid out a draft carbon
trading scheme to rein in rising emissions in the world's top
per-capita greenhouse gas polluter.
Economist Ross Garnaut, appointed by the government to design what
will be the world's most extensive emissio... |
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The rising demand for flat-screen televisions could have a greater
impact on global warming than the world's largest coal-fired power
stations, a leading environmental scientist warned yesterday.
Manufacturers
use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the... |
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 Twenty years ago Monday, James E. Hansen, a climate scientist at NASA, shook Washington and the world by telling a sweating crowd at a Senate hearing during a stifling heat wave that he was “99 percent” certain that humans were already warming the climate.
James E... |
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