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Journal editor resigns over 'problematic' climate paper

The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published.

Global warming means more snowstorms: scientists

Climate change is not only making the planet warmer, it is also making snowstorms stronger and more frequent, US scientists said on Tuesday.

Climate change study had 'significant error': experts

Kerry Sheridan Yahoo! News 01/19/2011
Climate change: Dogs of law are off the leash

From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.

Climate change study had 'significant error': experts

A climate change study that projected a 2.4 degree Celsius increase in temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, scientists said Wednesday.

Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics

Neela Banerjee Los Angeles Times 11/07/2010
Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics

Faced with rising political attacks, hundreds of climate scientists are joining a broad campaign to push back against congressional conservatives who have threatened prominent researchers with investigations and vowed to kill regulations to rein in man-made greenhouse gas emissions.

UN taps prime ministers to seek new climate money

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. chief tapped the prime ministers of Britain and Ethiopia on Friday to lead the hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars that nations pledged to contribute this decade for dealing with climate change.

US forming new climate change agency

JOHN M. BRODER The New York Times 02/09/2010

U.S., China, others join Copenhagen Accord on climate

Jim Tankersley Los Angeles Times 02/01/2010
US forming new climate change agency

WASHINGTON — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will create a new climate change office to gather and provide data to governments, industry and academia as part of a broad federal effort to prepare for long-term changes to the planet, officials said Monday.

U.S., China, others join Copenhagen Accord on climate

Washington - The United States, China and dozens of other countries accounting for nearly 80% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions have signed onto a voluntary agreement to curb climate change.

No U.N. deal on carbon cuts, last day of talks

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Two years of U.N. climate talks reached their climax in Copenhagen on Friday without a deal on carbon emissions cuts, as world leaders tried a last push to agree a new global climate pact.

Copenhagen negotiators struggle to save talks

Climate change negotiators have been working through the night in Copenhagen to try to rescue plans for a global agreement from collapse.


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