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• How Concerned Are You about Climate Change?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Three nights ago, CNN decided to hold one of its regular "quick votes," inviting readers to respond to water-cooler topics. With global warming now finally getting front-page coverage as a world issue, due to the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, climate instability is water-cooler news in the States. CNN was ...
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• December 10 - Today in Denver weather history

  
  Denver Weather Examiner — Authority: 142
  In todays look back at Denver weather history, we see December 10th is eventful for quite a bit of snow across the years as well as bone chilling cold.  From the National Weather Service:From the 2nd to the 17th:In 1939...
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• December 9 - Today in Denver weather history

  
  Denver Weather Examiner — Authority: 142
  Not unlike the weather we will experience we see plenty of Arctic cold today in Denver weather history but one in particular is noteworthy.  It was the second longest period we have experienced with sub-zero temperatures - nearly four straight d...
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• Vulnerable: The fragility of the Maldives

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Vulnerable is a photo exhibition organised by Bluepeace, documenting the vulnerability of the fragile coral islands of the Maldives to climate change
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• Quickhit: Last decade set to be warmest on record

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 138
  Full story on ABC Online : The World Meteorological Organisation says 2009 is set to be the fifth warmest year since records began in 1850. The WMO, which released its annual climate statement in Copenhagen overnight, also says the first decade of the 21st century is likely to be the warmest on record. The report ...
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• Winter storm begins to leave Denver but bitter cold remains

  
  Denver Weather Examiner — Authority: 142
  Workers spray deicing fluid on a waiting Southwest Airlines jetliner at Denver International Airport. The snow has moved out but the cold willremain.  More images of the cold weather in the slideshow below. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)It cer...
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• December 8 - Today in Denver weather history

  
  Denver Weather Examiner — Authority: 142
  Today in Denver weather history we have a 15 day heat wave, a 12 day blast of arctic cold, hurricane force winds, and a blizzard 11 years ago that shut down all major interstates.From the National Weather Service:From the 2nd to the 17th:In 1939...mo...
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• A changing climate: UNEP maps extreme weather events worldwide | Felicity Carus

  
  Environment: Environment blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 120
  From Atlantic hurricanes to Australian droughts, extreme weather events are more frequent and more violent In the run-up to Copenhagen, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its Climate Change Science Compendium , a summary of 400 peer-reviewed research papers published since 2006. To ...
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• 2009 could be 5th hottest year since 1850

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 139
  By the end of 2010, the world will have seen its warmest decade since records began in 1850, according to new figures released today at the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15). New figures released today in Copenhagen show that the last ten years have clearly been the warmest period in the 160-year ...
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• World climate anomalies

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  In the run-up to Copenhagen, the United Nations Environment Programme published a map of extreme weather events around the world Jenny Ridley Felicity Carus
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Noughties the warmest decade ever

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  The past 10 years have been the warmest decade recorded in 160 years, despite 1998 being the warmest year on record The past 10 years have been the warmest in recorded history, according to the UK Met Office . Figures released today at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen show that despite 1998 being the warmest ...
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• In pictures: Martin Parr after the floods in Vietnam

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Photographer Martin Parr visits floods victims in the Vietnamese coastal province of Quang Tri for Oxfam
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Workington reunited by temporary bridge

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Residents of Workington in Cumbria react to the opening of Barker Crossing, a temporary footbridge built by the army and named after the policeman who died in the floods that destroyed the previous bridge Christopher Thomond
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• Workingtons new Barker Crossing over the river Derwent

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Foot crossing named for Bill Barker, who fell in and drowned when the original stone bridge collapsed, was built by soldiers in a week
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• Bridge reunites Workington after floods

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Barkers Crossing, named after fallen police officer, was built by soldiers in only a week and will allow locals to cross river by foot The severed town of Workington was finally reunited at 8.05am today, to cheers and applause as the first bridge for nearly three weeks was opened across the river Derwent. ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• Vancouver cop says weather alert wont mean homeless taken to shelters under law

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  VANCOUVER, B.C. - The first extreme weather alert of the season was issued Friday in Vancouver on the heels of a controversial new law that gives police power to take the homeless to shelters against their will.
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