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U.S. blocks key fund in climate agreement: report
Thu,24 Nov 2011 06:03 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. is refusing to sign a flagship global climate fund as negotiations intensify ahead of the UN climate summit next week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. It quoted U.S. officials as saying the United States, backed by Saudi Arabia, had still not agreed to adopt a blueprint for the Green Climate Fund. Countries agreed to create the fund last year to channel up to $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries fight climate change and a U.N. committee completed the draft design of the fund at a meeting in South Africa in October. ... Full Story | Top |
UK wants global climate pact "operational" by 2020
Thu,24 Nov 2011 08:03 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - The government wants a new globally binding climate deal to be "operational" by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep world temperature rises to a limit of 2 degrees Celsius, the UK's minister for energy and climate change said. "The key thing is to have a deal to reduce emissions by 2020. As long as it is operating by then, that's fine," Chris Huhne told reporters on Thursday. Negotiators from around the world will meet in Durban, South Africa, next Monday for two weeks to work on a new globally binding United Nations deal towards cutting emissions. ...
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UK wants global climate pact "operational" by 2020
Thu,24 Nov 2011 06:29 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain wants a new globally binding climate deal to be "operational" by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep world temperature rises to a limit of 2 degrees Celsius, the minister for energy and climate change said. "The key thing is to have a deal to reduce emissions by 2020. As long as it is operating by then, that's fine," Chris Huhne told reporters on Thursday. Negotiators from around the world will meet in Durban, South Africa, next Monday for two weeks to work on a new globally binding United Nations deal towards cutting emissions. ...
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Erratic rains threaten southern Africa food output
Thu,24 Nov 2011 06:02 AM PST
Reuters - JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Rainfall patterns in southern Africa are becoming erratic as climate change takes its toll, threatening long-term production of staple and cash crops in the region. Countries like South Africa, Zambia and Malawi have enjoyed bumper harvests of their staple maize crop in recent years, ensuring food security in a region which has often known hunger. But farmers, who for centuries have known when to expect summer rains, are now finding planning difficult. "The rain patterns are just mixed up. You plant with the early rains then all of a sudden there is drought or floods. ... Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Thu,24 Nov 2011 01:49 AM PST
AP -  Expect a wet weather day in parts of the West this Thanksgiving, while conditions generally improve in the East.
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Huhne eyes £14 billion investment for new energy plan
Wed,23 Nov 2011 10:07 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The government hopes to start up 14 billion pounds of private investment by 2020 to insulate draughty homes and reduce energy bills that have seen fuel poverty rates more than double since the start of the last decade. Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne set out plans to attract investment to help meet Britain's ambitious energy saving goals, under a new scheme proposed in his annual energy statement to parliament. ... Full Story | Top |
British police investigating climate email hackers
Wed,23 Nov 2011 09:30 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - British police will examine a batch of email exchanges between climate scientists which appeared on the Internet Tuesday as part of an inquiry into the hacking of the private documents, police said Wednesday. The University of East Anglia, whose Climate Action Research Unit is considered one of the world's leading institutions on climate science, said the emails appeared to be "a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change." Negotiators from almost 200 countries meet from November 28 in South Africa for a U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
Police investigating climate email hackers
Wed,23 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Police will examine a batch of email exchanges between climate scientists which appeared on the Internet on Tuesday as part of an inquiry into the hacking of the private documents, police said on Wednesday. The University of East Anglia, whose Climate Action Research Unit is considered one of the world's leading institutions on climate science, said the emails appeared to be "a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change." Negotiators from almost 200 countries meet from November 28 in South Africa for a U.N. ... Full Story | Top |
More Climate Change E-mails Hacked Before U.N. Conference
Wed,23 Nov 2011 08:21 AM PST
National Journal - Just six days before the annual United Nations climate change summit, computer hackers have released another round of e-mails between climate scientists at the British University of East Anglia, in a move that appears designed to discredit climate change science. Full Story | Top |
Another Climate Conference, Another Batch 'Climategate' Hacked Emails
Wed,23 Nov 2011 05:53 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - With impeccable timing, a new round of hacked emails from professors at Britain's East Anglia University has surfaced, about a week before the start of a global climate change conference in Durban, South Africa. The same hacker who released emails from the same professors in 2009 that appeared to show the scientists inappropriately manipulating data to falsely emphasize human-caused climate change has now made public a new batch of messages that apparently do the same thing. ... Full Story | Top |
Thanksgiving Travel: Severe Weather Dampens Plans
Wed,23 Nov 2011 07:46 AM PST
ABC News - As millions of people begin their travel plans for the Thanksgiving holiday some of the nation's largest cities will be pounded with severe weather that could potentially cause major delays on highways and at airports as two major storms hit the Northeast and Northwest. Forecasters... Full Story | Top |
Thanksgiving Travel: Severe Weather Dampens Plans
Wed,23 Nov 2011 03:41 AM PST
Good Morning America -  As millions of people begin their travel plans for the Thanksgiving holiday some of the nation's largest cities will be pounded with severe weather that could potentially cause major delays on highways and at airports as two major storms hit the Northeast and Northwest. Forecasters...
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'Climategate 2.0': Inside the 'dynamite' new email leaks
Wed,23 Nov 2011 02:34 AM PST
The Week (RSS) - Two years after an unknown hacker released about 1,000 private emails between climate scientists, he or she struck again Tuesday, dumping a collection of about 5,000 more emails and documents from Britain's University of East Anglia. As with the original "Climategate" dump, this batch appeared via a Russian server a few days before a United Nations climate summit. Climate change skeptics are already digging through the emails, looking for correspondence that casts doubt on the scientific consensus that the earth is warming due to human activity. Have they hit pay dirt with "Climategate ... Full Story | Top |
Exploiting shale gas jars with UK climate goals - study
Tue,22 Nov 2011 04:04 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must choose between meeting its climate change targets or exploiting vast untapped shale gas resources in the north of England since the two goals are incompatible, a new study has found. The carbon cost of developing just 20 percent of shale reserves identified under Lancashire would blow about 15 percent of the UK government's greenhouse gas emissions budget through to 2050, a new study from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Manchester shows. ... Full Story | Top |
Exploiting shale gas jars with climate goals - study
Tue,22 Nov 2011 04:04 PM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must choose between meeting its climate change targets or exploiting vast untapped shale gas resources in the north of England since the two goals are incompatible, a new study has found. The carbon cost of developing just 20 percent of shale reserves identified under Lancashire would blow about 15 percent of the UK government's greenhouse gas emissions budget through to 2050, a new study from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Manchester shows. ... Full Story | Top |
Himalayan Nations Plan for Climate Change Without China
Tue,22 Nov 2011 12:30 PM PST
Yahoo! Contributor Network -  COMMENTARY | Bhutan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh have started to create plans to handle climate change. The Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas reached its conclusion on Nov. 19, and materials from the summit became public on Nov. 20. The four nations have agreed to a "Framework of Cooperation" to handle impending climate problems in the region.
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