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Climate Bill Earmarks Billions for 'Clean Coal'

"In the negotiations over the Waxman-Markey climate bill, Rep. Rick Boucher inserted a giant gift to the utility industry. It would create the Carbon Storage Research Corporation and funnel $10 billion to support the corporation over the next 10 years...."

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Source: SolveClimate, 06/03/2009

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"Possible Changes to House Climate Bill"

Various House committees will try to remake the climate bill in a shape favored by the interests they represent, before it faces more amendments on the floor this summer.

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Source: Reuters, 06/03/2009

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Climate-Change Skeptics In Europe? Mostly Missing In Action

By PAUL D. THACKER

Where are the global warming skeptics in Europe?

If you canvas a wide variety of news (what journalist doesn't?) and read some newspapers in Europe, you'll notice something about their coverage of global warming: no skeptics. That's right. The media coverage of high-profile global warming skeptics is pretty much an American phenomenon, according to some noted journalists who cover the issue outside the United States.

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Book Shelf, Book 2- The Winds Of Change: Climate, Weather, And The Destruction Of Civilization

Climate change scientist paints a stark and vivid picture

THE WINDS OF CHANGE: CLIMATE, WEATHER AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIZATIONS By Eugene Linden
Simon & Schuster, $26

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"Canada Hedges On 2010 Start For Emissions Rules"

"Canada's rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions may not come into effect by 2010 as had been planned, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Thursday."

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Source: Reuters, 06/02/2009

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"Climate Deal Must Cover Acid Oceans: Scientists"

"The increasing acidity of the world's oceans due to global warming must not be left off the agenda at the United Nations Copenhagen climate negotiations in December, 70 of the world's science academies warned today."

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Source: ENS, 06/02/2009

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"U.N. Climate Talks Grudgingly Accept Treaty Draft"

Delegates in Bonn negotiating a post-Kyoto climate treaty grudgingly accepted a first draft text as a starting point -- despite many reservations.

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Source: Reuters, 06/02/2009

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"Climate Talks To Begin Grappling With Treaty Text"

"Delegates from 174 countries and 230 nongovernment interest groups meet from Monday through June 12 in Bonn, Germany, in the second of five negotiating conferences to culminate with a final agreement being adopted in December in Copenhagen, Denmark."

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Source: AP, 06/01/2009

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"Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues"

Refugees from lands made uninhabitable by climate change -- expected in tens of millions -- may soon be threatening peace and security in many parts of the world. The UN is expected soon to address this issue.

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Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2009

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"Warming and Death"

"There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused each year by global warming...."

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Source: Dot Earth, 06/01/2009

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