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Climate change human link evidence 'stronger'

BBC News, March 5, 2010

 
By Pallab Ghosh, science correspondent
 
A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change.It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007.

LEADING SCIENTISTS PROPOSE SMARTER LOW CARBON FUTURE

Eur.Activ, March 2, 2010
 
published by COGEN EUROPE
A report launched today highlights critical challenges in the current ‘all-electric’ approach to decarbonisation of the UK energy system as this would increase our dependence on the electricity system to unprecedented levels.

We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change

The New York Times, February 27, 2010
By AL GORE
 
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.

World's temperature record to be re-analysed

The Independent, February 25, 2010
 
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
 
The whole of the world's instrumental temperature record – millions of observations dating back more than 150 years – is to be re-analysed in an attempt to remove doubts about the reality of global warming.

UN warns greenhouse gas cuts 'not enough' to curb warming

AFP, February 24, 2010
 
 
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) – Countries will have to make far greater cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius or less, the UN has warned.

U.S., China at odds over climate talks in 2010

Reuters, February 24, 2010
 
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
 
OSLO (Reuters) – The United States is at odds with China and other developing nations by favouring a Copenhagen climate accord as the blueprint in 2010 for a stronger deal to fight global warming, documents showed on Wednesday.

Regulation of Greenhouse Gases May Fall to EPA

Time, February 24, 2010
 
By Bryan Walsh
 
From the moment President Barack Obama took office, he has emphasized the importance of dealing with climate change. He's said that the right way to do it is to pass congressional legislation that would cap greenhouse-gas emissions. But eight months after the House of Representatives passed a cap-and-trade bill, similar legislation remains mired in the Senate, its chances of passage dimming by the day. With midterm elections not far off - threatening serious losses in Democratic seats in Congress - it's reasonable to wonder whether the carbon-capping bill will ever become law in the U.S.

EU climate chief: 'No climate deal likely before 2012'

EUobserver, February 23, 2010
 
 
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Global divisions on climate are so acute that a binding UN deal is unlikely for almost another two years, Europe's new climate commissioner believes.

Global collective action is the key to solving climate change

The Guardian, February 16, 2010
 
 
We cannot accept a 'climate apartheid', where the rich can buy their way out of the problem.

Alternative Futures of a Warming World: Potential Human Responses to Climate Change Will Be Integrated Into Future Models

ScienceDaily, February 10, 2010
 
An international team of climate scientists will take a new approach to modeling the Earth's climate future, according to a paper in 11 February Nature. The next set of models will include, for the first time, tightly linked analyses of greenhouse gas emissions, projections of the Earth's climate, impacts of climate change, and human decision-making.

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