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• Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 622
  Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 9

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  That’s not lice causing that scratching on your head (at least, we hope not) — it’s just a lot of head scratchers in today’s hot green news roundup . Stop the itch of curiosity right here! Now here’s a question that’s been keeping millions up at night! Which is greener: Going into the refrigerator ...
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• New Zealand Environment Court Says No to Huge Wind Farm

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 622
  What would have been the Southern Hemisphere’s largest wind farm, a $2 billion NZD ($1.4 billion USD) and 630 MW wind farm in New Zealand, is not happening because New Zealand’s Environment Court says that it would ruin the surrounding landscape. This project would have powered over a million homes and made a ...
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• EU launches online pollution tracker

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Brussels, Nov 9 (DPA) European Union (EU) citizens are now able to check how bad for their health industrial plants near their homes are, after the EU’s executive Monday opened an online tracker for the main pollutants.The register “will give citizens direct access to information on (pollution) emissions from ...
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• Statement following Lord Stern comments on climate change and meat consumption.

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.” He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat ...
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• Greenhouse gas emission statistics

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 127
  When we talk about greenhouse gas emissions we do not always understand which greenhouse gases are most important and the sources of emissions. The following information comes from the World Resources Institute Proportion of Greenhouse Gases emitted in relation to each other Carbon dioxide         77% ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• KlimaForum09: The People’s Climate Summit (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  While there may be some question about who will attend the UN Climate Change Conference, and what they will accomplish ,  you can be sure that the public will have an opportunity to discuss climate change in Copenhagen at the KlimaForum09. Billed as The People’s Climate Summit, the free event will ...
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• Chickens Home to Roost: The Climate is most Foul

  
  Fourth World Eye — Authority: 122
  “If we don’t take urgent and ambitious action, the reality is that some small island developing states will not be around within a couple of decades - certainly not by the end of the century.” So spoke Barbados Delegate to the climate change preparatory talks Selwin Hart expressing the frustration of island ...
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• India not ready for carbon emission targets: Prime Minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) With just a month to go before the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen, India Friday made it clear to the EU that it was not ready to quantify its carbon emission targets, but would explore that possibility.“We have not reached that stage. We will explore that possibility,” [...]
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• Ban Ki-Moon wants developed countries to cut emissions by 25-40 per cent

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 145
  UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asks developed countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40 per cent. Ban urged leading nations to unite on accord that is “comprehensive, equitable, balanced and binding” at the December 7-18 UN climate change conference. The UN Secretary-General was addressing to the ...
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• The Greatest Scam On Earth

  
  lgstarr — Authority: 433
  In 2000 Al Gore was a failed Presidential candidate with a paltry 2 million dollars to his name. Not a lot of money for a guy whose lavish mansion gobbles up almost a 150,000 dollars in electric utilities annually alone, and that of course is before property taxes and all the other costs of owning a home in Belle ...
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• Walt Disney Co., enviro groups to fund $7M conservation efforts

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 434
  ClimateWire : The Walt Disney Co. and several conservation groups will put up $7 million to protect thousands of acres of forestlands in the Congo and Amazon basins and in two U.S. regions, Disney announced on Tuesday. Four million dollars will go toward forest protection projects on reserves in the eastern ...
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• Norway and Sweden Push For Back-Up Plan If Climate Talks Fail

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  rickremingtons Flickr photostream/Creative Commons If the UN Climate Change Conference this December fails to produce a legally binding global climate deal, Norway and Sweden are pushing for a follow-up conference in early 2010 to finalize a new treaty.  While having a back-up plan seems like a good idea, ...
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• Imported Climate: 3° and Rising

  
  The Grey Chronicles — Authority: 424
  In an article entitled The obligation of rich nations ( 2009 ), a critical reaction to the raised eyebrows of newspaper headlines on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saying that the rich nations should fund the rehabilitation of the Philippines, Atty. Rita Linda V. Jimeno declared that “Indeed our nation is a ...
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• German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pushes Congress on Climate Change

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to a special bicameral (update: the correct adjective here is “joint”) session of Congress, the first German leader to do so since 1957. And, when she addressed Congress, Chancellor Merkel told our august legislators that they need to get their act together on ...
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• High Density Discharger Installation Instructions

  
  Automotive Manual PDF — Authority: 140
  Working Theory. The Chemical gases, most of which are xenon and iodides, are filled the quartz tube of the light. Through the ballast, then the voltage of 12V DC will be increased to 23KV immediately: the electrons of the xenon in the tube will be dissociated because of the voltage swing and thus an electrical arc ...
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• Heads in the sand….

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  Republicans boycotted a Senate committee hearing today on a major bill to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change. So, my question is, why would any political party that is trying to regain credibility heap ridicule upon itself by boycotting efforts to address one of the greatest ...
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• Climate Change Could Kill 250,000 Children Next Year

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 623
  wsilvers Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change could kill 250,000 children next year alone, and the numbers are likely to rise in years to come as climate-related famine, disease and other dangers escalate, according to Save The Children . The new report from the international charity is certainly one ...
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• Emissions from deforestation overestimated; 12% rather than 17%

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation are lower than previously believed, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience . The findings mean that developing countries may see less money under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism.
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