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• Climate Change Threatens China’s Yangtze River Basin

  
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  paulmannixs Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Climate change threatens to unleash severe storms, droughts, floods across China’s Yangtze River Basin in the coming decades, unless proper mitigation measures are taken to protect the region from catastrophe, according to a new study from the WWF. While we should ...
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• What Are the Consequences of Copenhagen?

  
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  If you’re like some of us over here at TakePart, you can’t get enough coverage of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. We even cover a lot of the news ourselves here. And that’s why it’s so exciting that over at The Daily Climate (TDC), today they are starting a four-part special report ...
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• Climate Justice Fast (Video)

  
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  The Climate Justice Fast began on November 6th as an international hunger strike to demand effective and justice action on climate change at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen.  Participants will refrain from eating food and drink only water for extended intervals and in some cases until the summit this ...
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• KlimaForum09: The People’s Climate Summit (Video)

  
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  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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• Developing Countries Threaten To Walk Out of Climate Summit

  
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  rolando.pujols Flickr photostream Developing countries have threatened to walk out of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen if rich nations did not commit to greater reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and more funding for climate costs. While I can understand being  frustrated by talk that the ...
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• The Repower America Wall: Voice Your Support for Clean Energy and Climate Action

  
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  The Repower America Wall , a new multimedia campaign from the Alliance for Climate Protection,  invites you to join thousands of people across the country in voicing your support for action on clean energy and climate change.  The virtual wall is a stunning and powerful visual testament to strengthening national ...
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• Norway and Sweden Push For Back-Up Plan If Climate Talks Fail

  
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  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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• German Chancellor Angela Merkel Pushes Congress on Climate Change

  
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  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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• Climate Change Could Kill 250,000 Children Next Year

  
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  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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• Video: Al Gore Praises the Copenhagen Conference

  
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  Al Gore, former Vice President and current environmental hero, sat down with Katie Couric yesterday for her online program @KatieCouric to discuss all things environmental and green. He even had a few things to say about one of our current favorite topics here at TakePart, the Copenhagen Conference on Climate ...
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• Senate Committee to Proceed On Climate Change Bill Without Republicans

  
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  Last week, we told you that Senate Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee had planned on boycotting work sessions on the Senate’s climate change bill , in order to stall the bill from leaving the committee, and thus halting a vote on the Senate floor. Well, the first work sessions were scheduled ...
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• Nepal’s Cabinet To Hold Climate Meeting On Mt. Everest

  
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  joehastings Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Nepal’s Cabinet plans to hold a meeting at the base camp of Mt. Everest to highlight the threat of climate change and rising global temperatures, which is causing glaciers in the Himalayas to melt at an alarming rate. The climate summit just below the world’s ...
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• Cap and Trade Will Raise Gas Prices 13 Cents a Gallon

  
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  Oil companies aren’t exactly thrilled when it comes to the proposed cap-and-trade system of selling carbon credits the federal government has proposed, claiming that it will just cost way, way too much money to buy the credits, demand for gas would go down, and business would be ruined. But wait, you might say. Why ...
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• The Elders’ Climate Change Picnic With Their Grandchildren (Video)

  
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  myklroventines Flickr photostream/Creative Commons The Elders, a independent group of eminent global leaders , gathered with their grandchildren last Thursday for a picnic to show the importance of uniting generations to address the threat of climate change. More than just a charming photo-op, the get together ...
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• E.U. Leaders Pledge Funds to Combat Global Warming

  
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  Last month, a report came out that suggested developing nations will need at least $500 billion a year to fight the impact of climate change. Well, a gaggle of European Union leaders got together late last week, and set the bar instead at 100 billion euros (let’s say about $148 billion American). But on the ...
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• Moms Against Climate Change (Video)

  
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  Moms Against Climate Change wants to remind world leaders that the fate of the world’s children depends upon them taking decisive action to curb greenhouse gas emissions at the UN climate summit this December.  As we discuss the future of our planet, it’s imperative that we keep in mind the future generations ...
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• Vote Earth! Demand Action On Climate Change In Copenhagen (Video)

  
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  Earlier this year hundreds of millions of people from 88 countries showed their commitment to the planet by turning out the lights for Earth Hour , and the Vote Earth campaign is now asking you to join the chorus in demanding serious action from world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ...
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• Senate Republicans Mull Stalling Climate Change Bill

  
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  The Senate’s version of the climate change bill is kicking around in the Environment and Public Works Committee right now, and Committee chair (and Democrat) Babara Boxer wants to get the bill voted on and approved in the Committee as soon as possible, mainly to show domestic progress on the issue to give a boost to ...
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• Interactive Climate Change Map Launched By UK Science Museum

  
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  A new interactive climate change map launched by the Science Museum of London , reveals the devastating consequences that an average four degree rise in global temperatures would have on the planet, which is likely to occur if we fail to adequately cut greenhouse gas emissions. The map uses the latest ...
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• Experts Warn Public Needs to be More Aware of Climate Change

  
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  When we talk about the upcoming Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, one thing we often focus on is how the world’s governments are going to have difficulty reconciling their differences in order to create a comprehensive and productive agreement to combat climate change. However, experts at a climate change ...
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