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"The White House is finalizing rules on the first U.S. greenhouse gas emission standard for automobiles, which would raise average fuel economy 42 percent by 2016 in a bid to slash oil imports and fight climate change.""White House Finalizing Rules To Cut Car Emissions"
Reuters, 03/12/2010
"UNITED NATIONS -- At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.""World's Top Scientists To Review Climate Panel"
AP, 03/11/2010
"President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.""Obama Meets With Key Senators in Bid To Advance Climate Legislation"
AP, 03/10/2010
"China and India formally agreed Tuesday to join the international climate change agreement reached in December in Copenhagen, the last two major economies to sign up."China and India Formally Support Copenhagen Accord
NYTimes, 03/10/2010
"One of the stickiest points in international climate change negotiations is how to account for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions produced to make goods that are then sold for export.""Counting 'Outsourced' Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
NYTimes, 03/09/2010
"The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this year.""EU Climate Funding Threatened"
Reuters, 03/08/2010
"Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming. Now researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and elsewhere say this change is under way in a little-studied area under the sea, the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, west of the Bering Strait.""Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way"
NYTimes, 03/05/2010
As Congress has gridlocked on climate change, the Obama EPA has pushed forward to regulate greenhouse emissions under its Clean Air Act authority. Now some Congress members are proposing legislation to prevent EPA from doing that as well. The key question is how much support they can win from coal- and oil-state Democrats."Lawmakers Move To Restrain EPA on Climate Change"
Wash Post, 03/05/2010
The pace at which glaciers are melting in many places around the world from Asia to Alaska. An error in an estimate of Himalayan glacier melting in a 2007 UN report has been seized on by climate change deniers. But the evidence of widespread and rapid glacial melting is overwhelming."Glacier Melting A Key Clue To Tracking Climate Change"
Reuters, 03/05/2010
"An independent board of scientists will be appointed to review the workings of the world’s top climate science panel, which has faced recriminations over inaccuracies in a 2007 report, a United Nations environmental spokesman said Friday.""Independent Board to Review Work of Top Climate Panel"
Reuters, 03/01/2010
"A new report shows predictions for a warming climate could be devastating to duck production in the Prairie Pothole Region.""Report: Warming Climate Threatens Prairie Pothole Region"
Grand Forks Herald, 03/01/2010
"An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday.""Mammoth Iceberg Could Alter Ocean Circulation: Study"
AFP, 02/26/2010
"The United Nations will have an extra round of climate change talks this April in Germany to speed up stalled climate negotiations.""U.N. Has Extra Round of Climate Talks"
UPI, 02/25/2010
While many scientists think global warming will bring more intense hurricanes, a new scientific paper suggests that the climate system may also work the other way around. Authors looking at data from the Pliocene era say hurricanes may have created a permanent El Nino condition that enhanced warming."Study: Can Hurricanes Cause Climate Change?"
TIME, 02/25/2010
"Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has instructed Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to produce a revamped climate bill as soon as possible, according to sources, a task Kerry intends to accomplish within two weeks.""Reid Demands Climate Bill ASAP"
Post Carbon, 02/25/2010
