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31.07.2012
Richard Muller's volte face on climate change is good for science
It's tempting to infer from the reports of University of California physicist Richard Muller's conversion that climate sceptics really can change their spots. Analyses by Muller's Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, which have been made publicly available, reveal that the Earth's land surface is on average 1.5C warmer than it was when Mozart was born, and that, as Muller puts it "humans are almost entirely the cause". He says that his findings are even stronger than those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which presents the consensus of the climate-science community that most of the warming in the past half century is almost certainly due to human activities. "Call me a converted sceptic", says Muller in the New York Times.
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30.07.2012
What evidence will it take to convince climate sceptics?
So, that's it then. The climate wars are over. Climate sceptics have accepted the main tenets of climate science – that the world is warming and that humans are largely to blame – and we can all now get on to debating the real issue at hand: what, if anything, do we do about it?
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27.07.2012
Natural gas future clouded by CO2
Natural gas has strong political support in Britain, shown by a tax break choreographed this week to balance support for wind power, but it is also on a collision course with the country's carbon emissions targets.
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27.07.2012
UN undertakes initiative to monitor national forests
Ten Central African countries will take part in a United Nations-backed initiative that will help them set up national forest monitoring systems and strengthen cooperation among nations in the region, it was announced Thursday.
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26.07.2012
Climate change on investors' minds
The majority of investors have boosted their committment to addressing climate change, and are making changes to their investment strategies based on climate risk assessments a report has found.
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26.07.2012
Climate carbon technologies considered
Pulling carbon dioxide from the air and storing it to stabilize climate may become increasingly important with ongoing global warming, U.S. scientists say.
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24.07.2012
‘Climate change’ envoy optimistic about meeting to be held in Qatar
The Australian ambassador for climate change, Justin Lee, has expressed his optimism ahead of the global climate change conference to be hosted by Qatar later this year, saying that the meeting would focus on the implementation of initiatives which have been agreed at earlier conferences.
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23.07.2012
Asean urged to take strong position on climate change
Environmental groups, diplomats and government officials have urged member-countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to come up with a firm stand on pursuing solutions to climate change to ensure that the region would be able to cope with what they fear is a looming environmental crisis. They cited the Asean’s vulnerability to climate change, which is seen to seriously affect most aspects of livelihood and limit the regional bloc’s future development options.
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20.07.2012
R8bn 'green building' for Pretoria
Construction began on the Environmental Affairs Department's new R8-billion "green building" in Pretoria on Thursday, illustrating South Africa's determination to move towards a low-carbon economy.
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20.07.2012
UPDATE 1-EU Commission to publish ETS rescue plan next week
The European Commission confirmed on Friday that it will announce plans next week to withhold carbon allowances to support the struggling Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which has suffered a collapse in prices under the burden of oversupply.
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