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Storm surge a growing menace as sea levels rise worldwide 3.9.2010 Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Storm surge a growing menace as sea levels rise worldwide
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Water suppliers brainstorm in Denver about climate change 1.9.2010 Denver Post: News: Local
Water suppliers brainstorm in Denver about climate change
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Why Failure of Climate Summit Would Herald Global Catastrophe: 3.5° 31.8.2010 CommonDreams.org Headlines
by Michael McCarthy

The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on course for global warming of up to 3.5C in the coming century, a series of scientific analyses suggest. The failure of last December's UN climate summit in Copenhagen means that cuts in carbon emissions pledged by the international community will not be enough to keep the anticipated warming within safe limits.

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Editorial: The Urgent Islands 30.8.2010 International Herald Tribune: Editorials
If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country? That is a question about which the Republic of the Marshall Islands is seeking legal advice.
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Climate-Related Security Predictions Coming True in Pakistan 27.8.2010 CommonDreams.org Headlines
by Matthew O. Berger

WASHINGTON - Analysts have been warning for several years that the impacts of climate change directly relate to the national security of the U.S. and other countries, but the link has never been so clear as it is today in northwest Pakistan.

The security implications of climate change first got official U.S. government attention this February, in the Quadrennial Defence Review, a four-yearly report from the Pentagon on the direction of national security strategy.

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'No man-made fix' for rising seas 25.8.2010 BBC: Front Page
Even the most extreme geoengineering approaches will not stop sea levels from rising due to climate change, a study suggests.
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Geoengineering won't undo sea level rises 24.8.2010 New Scientist: News
Geoengineering won't undo sea level rises
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Geoengineering won't undo sea levels rises 24.8.2010 New Scientist: Being Human
Geoengineering won't undo sea levels rises
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Government launches misson to save Himalayan eco-system (Cached) 16.8.2010 New Kerala: World News
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Hot times: As global warming becomes a given, solutions seem ever more distant 15.8.2010 Houston Chronicle: Editorial
Long-range public policies to address that threat cannot be based on the daily weathercast.


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Lessons in Resilience From New Orleans 14.8.2010 NYT > Environment
Lessons from New Orleans history on withstanding, or succumbing to, inevitable disasters.

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My Turn: Under the radar at Sharp Park 12.8.2010 San Jose Mercury News: Local News
My Turn: Under the radar at Sharp Park
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Vast Ice 'Island' Breaks Free of Greenland Glacier 9.8.2010 NYT > Environment
An enormous chunk of ice breaks away from a Greenland glacier.

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Climate change denial? There's an app for that 6.8.2010 Guardian: Environment
A new iPhone climate change sceptics' app inadvertently reveals the strategies of disinformation and denial they employ This year I launched the Skeptical Science app for iPhones , Nokias and the fast-growing Android phones . The app looks at many arguments from climate sceptic and identifies a common pattern – that sceptics focus on small pieces of the puzzle while neglecting the full body of evidence. Our app aims to gives you the full picture, with all the evidence, scientific context and links to peer-reviewed research. It has another useful function – users can send me reports on which sceptical arguments they encounter. The Number 1 sceptic argument, standing head and shoulders above the competition , attacks the surface ...
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Books of The Times: ‘The Weather of the Future’ and ‘The Climate War’ 2.8.2010 NY Times: Books
Books of The Times: ‘The Weather of the Future’ and ‘The Climate War’
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We must restart the fight against global warming Observer editorial 1.8.2010 Guardian: Environment
Climate change was once top of the agenda. We can't afford to let it slip Scepticism is a healthy attitude to adopt to many, if not all, untested propositions. Sceptics throughout history, by applying their reasoned judgment and hard-headed critical faculties, have exposed lies, delusions and superstition. Which is why scepticism is entirely the wrong word to apply to those who deny that emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity are leading to rises in average global temperatures, with potentially disastrous consequences. True sceptics respond to evidence. Last week more evidence was published to support the established case for man-made global warming. Research, led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , drew ...
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Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods 31.7.2010 New Scientist: GM Organisms
Solar cycle may drive Venice's floods
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EPA Rejects Petitions to Reverse Climate Change Endangerment Finding 30.7.2010 Common Dreams: Headlines

WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Protection Agency today turned back 10 petitions from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Peabody Coal and others that asked the agency to rescind its scientific finding that heat-trapping greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

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Global warming evidences 'unmistakable' (Cached) 29.7.2010 CNN-IBN: World
London: Evidences of global warming are unmistakable, according to a new report on climate change, which presents a list of indicators including melting glaciers and rising sea level. The report prepared by the British Met Office and its US equivalent has provided the "greatest evidence we have ever had" that the world is warming.
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Climate managers in Panchayat hold key to tackle global warming (Cached) 29.7.2010 New Kerala: World News
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