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• Oh Canada: We stand on guard behind our Momma’s apron

  
  ... It Strikes Me Funny by G. Harrison — Authority: 434
  When it comes down to commitment concerning carbon reduction targets, the Canadian government hides behind the flimsiest of cotton aprons. Though Environment Minister Jim Prentice insists Canada is “a constructive player at the climate-change table,” our chief climate change negotiator, Michael Martin, while ...
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• Brokers make most of carbon credits

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  India Inc sells a third of carbon credits to middlemen at low rates. This is yet another case of middlemen making hay while the sun shines. India may be the second largest country after China in terms of carbon credit generation, but experts say Indian companies are unable to take full advantage of this. They end up ...
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• How to fight global warming: Smart taxes

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  With Copenhagen climate talks looking stalled and the Senate mired in complicated eco-wrangling, is there a simpler way to get the U.S. to reduce the carbon emissions that most scientists blame for global warming?
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• Kerry vows to get US climate laws passed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Senator tries to settle doubts about US commitment to emissions cuts but says China must meet accountability demands A looming showdown between the US and China dominated the Copenhagen climate change negotiations today even as John Kerry tried to defuse tensions by guaranteeing to get climate change laws through ...
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• Is Camerons green deal the real deal? | Leo Hickman

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Questions about financing and internal dissent will dog the Conservatives newly revived home energy efficiency scheme Just when we were beginning to think that David Cameron had forgotten his former rallying call to " Vote blue, go green ", up he pops during the business end of the Copenhagen climate negotiations to ...
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• Satellite sees "lumpy" layer of CO2

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  An instrument aboard a seven-year-old satellite designed to help weather forecasters is proving to be a powerful new tool in climate monitoring by detecting the distribution of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And it turns out, NASA scientists say -- ...
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• Hopenhagen countdown: The climate change seven-year itch

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 436
  The Man Who Would Be Queen , and respected climate guru (cough), issues his current doomsday prediction: The world has only seven years before climate change causes a “point of crisis” that will drive food shortages, terrorism and poverty, the Prince of Wales has warned. Okay, let me try to figure this ...
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• Europeans back select developing countries at climate talks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Dipankar De SarkarLondon, Dec 16 (IANS) The Climate summit in Copenhagen is likely to be presented with an Ethiopian proposal backed by key European leaders that seeks to raise money by taxing different pots of big business, according to reports here Wednesday.Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has been ...
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• When George met Boris...

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Environmental columnist George Monbiot challenges Boris Johnsons green policies in an extraordinary meeting of world mayors in Copenhagen George Monbiot Shehani Fernando Cameron Robertson
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  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 172
  And these are the people who think that they can control the world’s climate They are just clueless blowhards pumped up with excessive self-esteem COPENHAGEN DIARY: THERE was a touch of excitement when a group of African delegates stormed out of a working group at the start of the all-important second week…
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• Obama promotes home energy-efficiency spending – The Associated Press

  
  Jobs at home - Legit work — Authority: 447
  The Associated Press Obama promotes home energy-efficiency spending The Associated Press "Its good jobs in every community, its savings in every home and its lower carbon emissions," Welch said. About $8 billion of the $787 billion economic … Obama Says Home Insulation is "Sexy" ...
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• Fake assassination photo of Canadian PM creates uproar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Toronto, Dec 16 (IANS) Canadian politics sunk to a new low this week when the opposition Liberal Party posted on its website a doctored picture of Prime Minister Stephen Harper being assassinated.After an uproar, the opposition party removed the offending photo which showed the prime minister’s face superimposed on ...
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• Copenhagen Meetings Create Own CO2

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  According to this article from the Telegraph, all of the transportation associated with the climate change meetings in Copenhagen will emit as much CO2 as a city the size of the UK’s Middlesbrough would over the same period of time. ...
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• Trusting Nature as the Climate Referee

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 142
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife Imagine there’s no Copenhagen. Imagine a planet in which global warming was averted without the periodic need for thousands of people to fly around the world to promise to stop burning fossil fuels. Imagine no international conferences wrangling over the details of ...
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• Letters: Our voice needs to be heard at Copenhagen

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  As representatives of people from the developing world who are most affected by climate change, we are still fighting to ensure our voices are heard in Copenhagen. We are alarmed about the potential failure of the talks ( Report , 15 December). People in many of our countries in the global south are already ...
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• U.S. Counting on Cows to Reduce Carbon Emissions

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  U.S. Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an agreement with the American dairy industry Tuesday to reduce the industrys greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020, mostly by convincing farmers to capture the methane from cow manure that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere.
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• Himalayas Melting?

  
  The Outside Blog — Authority: 551
  Research presented at the latest American Geophysical Union meeting points to carbon emissions from Asian cities as partly responsible for the 20 percent decrease in the Himalayan glaciers since the 1960s, Wired.com reports. The video above tracks black carbon through the Earths atmosphere from August to November ...
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• Pope Benedict: ecological crisis requires "review of our model of development"

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Pope Benedict XVI has released a message linking world peace with preserving the environment for the World Day of Peace, which will be held on January 1st 2010. In it Benedict calls for a "long-term review" of the worlds current economic model, including "[moving] beyond a purely consumerist mentality" and encouraging ...
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• EPA seeks to regulate carbon

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 157
  The EPA this week found that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health, a strategically timed action that is likely to resonate internationally as the world begins talks on a climate change treaty at a U.N. summit in Copenhagen. Continue reading at Congress.org
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• Obama is not saviour of the world. Hes still an American president | Jonathan Freedland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The reality is that this man must represent the contradictory interests of a country still way behind on climate change For the second time in just over a week, Barack Obama is on his way to Scandinavia, his mission once again to confront impossible expectations with a cold bucket of reality. Last week he was in Oslo ...
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