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Meet Curiosity, NASA's New $2.5 Billion Mars Rover
Fri,25 Nov 2011 01:50 PM PST
The Atlantic Wire - Barring any unexpected changes to the weather forecast at Cape Canaveral, the rocket carrying NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity will launch just after 10 a.m. EST tomorrow morning, with touch down on the Red Planet expected to take place in AugustRelated: NASA's Heading to Mars to Look for Signs of Life Full Story | Top |
In climate talks West would redefine rich and poor
Fri,25 Nov 2011 03:45 AM PST
AP - As delegates gather in South Africa to plot the next big push against climate change, Western governments are saying it's time to move beyond traditional distinctions between industrial and developing countries and get China and other growing economies to accept legally binding curbs on greenhouse gases. Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Fri,25 Nov 2011 01:36 AM PST
AP -  The Eastern US remains quiet on Friday, while rain and snow persists in the West and showers and thunderstorms move into the Southern Plains. A ridge of high pressure continues building over the Mississippi River Valley to the Eastern Seaboard. This will allow for a warming trend to persist, as the ridge pushes moisture away and creates sunny skies. Expect highs to vary in the 50s and 60s across most of the Northeast and Ohio River Valley, about 5 to 10 degrees warmer than seasonable.
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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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Green agenda: eyes of the world turn to Durban and COP 17
Thu,24 Nov 2011 07:45 AM PST
AFP Relax News -  Over the coming week the eyes of the world will be on Durban and COP17. Environmentalists and ordinary citizens alike from around the world will be hoping that, given the failure of Cancun and Copenhagen, Durban can produce concrete steps towards securing a global agreement on climate change, though in light of recent comments by some of the world's richest governements, it seems unlikely.
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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 |
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 |
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