The United States and five other countries announced a potentially game-changing initiative to cut global warming gases.
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Feb 17
In Heartland Institute Leak, a Plan to Discredit Climate Teaching
Disclosed files from the nonprofit Heartland Institute outline a plan to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, and they identify some corporate donors.
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U.S. Pushes to Cut Emissions That Speed Climate Change
A small group of countries led by the United States is starting a program to address short-lived pollutants like soot, methane and hydrofluorocarbons that account for 30 to 40 percent of global warming.
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Jan 12
GHGs and Where They Are
In January 2012, for the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released greenhouse gas (GHG) data collected under the GHG Reporting Program. GHG is primarily Carbon Dioxide but includes many other other chemicals such as methane. …
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Temperature Rising: Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries
Experts worry that if the permafrost thaws in the Northern Hemisphere, huge amounts of carbon will be released into the air, greatly intensifying global warming.
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Direct air capture of CO2 to fight global warming is too expensive to be feasible
Using existing technology to ‘scrub’ carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere is far costlier than capturing emissions directly from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants, reports a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National…
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UN Climate deal reached in Durban
Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming.
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Dec 08
U.N. Climate Conference close to deal on Climate Fund
Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change.
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At least 74 percent of current warming caused by us
A new methodology to tease out how much current climate change is linked to human activities has added to the consensus that behind global warming is us. The study, published in Nature Geoscience found that humans have caused at least three-quarters (7…
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