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Tuesday 16 March

Climate Skepticism Grows as Emissions Fall
ClimateBiz | 15 Mar 2010
A Gallup poll published last week found that overall, more Americans feel the media exaggerates the seriousness of climate change today than they did two years ago. At the same time, the EPA estimates greenhouse gas emissions dropped 3 percent in 2008.
 Climate Change | Economy | Global Warming | Industry
Why Consuming Smarter Means Consuming Less
ClimateBiz | 15 Mar 2010
The Natural Resources Defense Council is taking a more active role in talking about consumption by encouraging people to eat less red meat and dairy, fly less, and use paper smarter, all actions that could put a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions. 
 Climate Change | Economy | Global Warming | Industry
A Tale of Two Countries: Japan, China, and the Low-Carbon Economy
ClimateBiz | 15 Mar 2010
Japan's business leaders are focused on cutting emissions, though they have about the same level of a roadmap as Americans; their neighbor to the southwest, however, has quickly moved into the spotlight as a challenger, and potentially an economic threat.
 Climate Change | Economy | Global Warming | Industry
More maize ethanol may boost greenhouse gas emissions
ScienceDaily.com | 12 Mar 2010
Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse environmental option than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis.
 United States | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Climate Change
British Columbia OKs 19 projects in clean power push
Reuters | 12 Mar 2010
OTTAWA (Reuters) - British Columbia has given the green light to 19 private-sector clean energy projects that will generate enough power to supply nearly 218,000 homes in Canada's Pacific Coast province.
 Canada | Energy Production
Carbon capture bid wins funding
BBC World Service | 12 Mar 2010
Scottish Power wins "tens of millions of pounds" in funding to develop technology designed to tackle climate change.
 United Kingdom | Carbon Storage | Climate Change
Zimbabwe: Climate Change - Traditionalists in Denial
AllAfrica.com | 12 Mar 2010
Climate change is not a new phenomenon. For hundreds of millions of years, the earth's climate has been changing regularly, sometimes getting colder and sometimes warmer.
 Zimbabwe | Climate Change Science | Climate Variability
Government must help people turn green homes dream into reality
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 12 Mar 2010
Millions of existing homes will need extensive refits to improve their energy efficiency if the UK is to meet its carbon cutting targets - and Government needs to do more to make this happen.
 United Kingdom | Energy Efficiency
Temperature rise spreads malaria, scientists insist
SCIDEV.NET | 11 Mar 2010
The hotly contested idea that climate change is increasing the spread of malaria has been supported by a review of recent studies.
 Climate Change | Health
White House finalizing rules to cut car emissions
Reuters | 11 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to slash oil imports and fight climate change.
 United States | Climate Change | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gas Emissions
More Americans say global warming exaggerated: poll
Reuters | 11 Mar 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A growing number of Americans, nearly half the country, think global warming worries are exaggerated and more people doubt that scientific warnings of severe environmental fallout will ever occur, according to a new Gallup poll. It seems like the percentage of the Americans who think global warming is too exaggerated need more proof that Global warming is actually real.
 United States | Climate Change | Further Proof | Global Warming
EU to exceed 2020 green energy target: forecasts
Reuters | 11 Mar 2010
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - New forecasts suggest the European Union will exceed its target of getting 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources in 2020, the European Commission said Thursday.
 Renewable Energy
Sarkozy to press G20 on climate funding
Reuters | 11 Mar 2010
PARIS (Reuters) - France will push the Group of 20 countries to impose a tax on financial transactions to raise billions of dollars to help developing nations fight climate change, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday.
 France | Climate Change
Japan weakens climate bill, pressured by industry
Reuters | 11 Mar 2010
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan watered down legislation to fight climate change Thursday after weeks of wrangling within the government over plans for an emissions trading system that has met stiff resistance from industry.
 Japan | Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Battle over climate science spreads to US schoolrooms
New Scientist | 11 Mar 2010
In three states, alternatives to the scientific consensus on global warming must be taught - and there seem to be links to efforts to teach creationism
 United States | Climate Change Science
Predicting future climate: Networking initiative to support interdisciplinary research
ScienceDaily.com | 11 Mar 2010
Specialists from various Earth system science disciplines recently gathered to address a major question: what will our environment look like in the future? Of course, possible answers to this question raise even more questions. For instance, if changing climatic conditions were to alter local vegeta
 Climate Change
Health the key ground in climate change battle
Environment Data Interactive Exchange | 11 Mar 2010
The danger and cost of climate change to the health of Europeans is at the forefront of the debate at the fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health.
 Italy | Climate Change Impacts | Health
Sun won't stop global warming if dims as in 1600s
Reuters | 10 Mar 2010
OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday.
 Norway | Global Warming
China unsure on warming cause, to stick with CO2 cuts
Reuters | 10 Mar 2010
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
 China | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gas Emissions
UN launches review of criticized climate panel
Reuters | 10 Mar 2010
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.
 Climate Change Science

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