Climatology

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Tibet temperatures hit record high in 2009

Reuters Environmental Online Report 5 days ago

BEIJING (Reuters) - Temperatures in Tibet rose last year to the highest level since records began for the remote Himalayan region, which scientists say is particularly vulnerable to global warming, state media reported on Friday. The average temperature in Tibet in 2009 ...

GOP lawmakers seek to suspend Calif. climate law

AP News 5 days ago

GOP lawmakers seek to suspend Calif. greenhouse gas law championed by Schwarzenegger Republican lawmakers in California are circulating a ballot initiative backed by business interests that would suspend California's landmark law to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a signature policy of Gov. Arnold ...

Companies feel threatened by climate fight: U.N. chief

Reuters Environmental Online Report 6 days ago

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Certain countries and companies feel threatened by growing efforts against climate change, the U.N. climate chief said on Thursday, after other officials spoke of a campaign to undermine a consensus on global warming. Yvo de Boer spoke amid ...

Vancouver gets climate-change bronze

Reuters Environmental Online Report 6 days ago

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - If fighting climate change was an Olympic sport, the organizing committee for this month's Vancouver Winter Games would have won a bronze medal, a report released on Wednesday says. Organizers have done a good job in areas such as ...

House bill would prevent EPA regulating carbon

Reuters Environmental Online Report 6 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With congressional action on climate legislation in doubt, two House committee chairmen have filed a bill to block the government from regulating greenhouse gases under its own power. The lawmakers say Congress, not "unelected bureaucrats," should set environmental policy. ...

First of many laughable aspects to the administration's 2011 budget

AlphaNinja 7 days ago

The laughable title of Obama's 2011 budget is "A New Era of Responsibility."  That's some pretty amazing unintentional comedy, exemplified by the fraudulent non-accounting for climate taxes.  The budget explains away the blank lines next to "Allowance for Climate Policy" by saying ...

US Reps from Mo. to propose blocking EPA gas rules

AP News 7 days ago

Skelton and Emerson to propose barring EPA from developing own greenhouse gas emissions rules Two congressional members from Missouri said Tuesday that they plan to file legislation blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from developing its own greenhouse gas rules. U.S. Reps. Ike ...

UN says nations' greenhouse gas pledges too little

AP News 8 days ago

UN officials says nations' greenhouse gas pledges likely to fall short of key goal Goals on reducing greenhouse gases announced by major industrialized nations are a step forward but not enough to forestall the disastrous effects of climate change by midcentury, U.N. ...

Canada to tout oil sands in emission cut plans

Reuters Environmental Online Report 8 days ago

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Canadian government will keep supporting development of Alberta's oil sands while it follows the U.S. lead on setting targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, the country's environment minister said on Monday. The oil sands, a frequent target ...

Copenhagen climate deal gets low-key endorsement

Reuters Environmental Online Report 8 days ago

OSLO (Reuters) - Nations accounting for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions have restated their promises to fight climate change, meeting a Sunday deadline in a low-key endorsement of December's "Copenhagen Accord." Experts say their promised curbs on greenhouse gas emissions ...

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