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Small global warming rise would have 'alarming' impact: World Bank

Much of Bangkok could flood within the next two decades if global warming stays on its current trajectory, as sea levels rise and cyclones intensify, the World Bank said in a new report on Wednesday.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Statesman Journal

Milbank: Holding back the tide of global warming

WASHINGTON -- The National Mall has monuments to heroism, freedom and sacrifice.

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American Reporter

Reporting: MedicineINFECTIONS Take at Least 51 Lives at Panama Hospital

There is virtually no doubt that global warming exists. Aside from a few cranks and those heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry, the scientific consensus is that the Earth's climate is changing, and changing faster than ever before.

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Scientific Computing/Instrument.

Global Cooling as Significant as Global Warming

A "cold snap" 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as a result of global warming, according to research published today in Nature Geoscience .

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Times of Oman

Winds on Venus have accelerated by a third: scientists

Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency reported on Tuesday.

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The Georgia Straight

David Suzuki: We ignore scientists at our peril

Research confirms agreement among most climate scientists that we are altering the Earth's climate, mainly by burning fossil fuels.

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International Business Times

Australian Miners Refuse to Support Move Away from Coal Despite...

Coal workers at the jointly-owned coking coal mines of BHP Billiton Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. have finally conceded to accept a new enterprise agreement, effectively ending a two-year mining clash.

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The Nation

Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline

Elijah Zarlin, who worked as a senior email writer at Obama campaign headquarters in 2008, was back in Chicago yesterday - in the First Precinct jail, following a peaceful sit-in in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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The Modesto Bee

UC Davis professor earns prestigious prize for environmental work

UC Davis professor Daniel Sperling, one of the nation's most influential transportation thinkers and policymakers, is the recipient of the 2013 Blue Planet Prize, sometime called the Nobel Prize for environmental science.

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Examiner.com

Cuomo is right to promote tourism, wrong to push casino gaming

The Cuomo Administration deserves praise for new initiatives to promote tourism in New York State will be an economic and social boon, but the plan to develop three major casino gaming destinations in upstate is bad policy.

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The Nation

Why Investors Must Do More Than Divest From Fossil Fuels

Photo by Reuters. Eleven cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, are moving towards divesting from fossil fuel companies.

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Tech Review

Selectively Targeting Aerosol Pollutants Could Reduce Climate Change

Chinese congestion: The increasing number of cars in China means motor vehicles have become a significant source of air pollution and urban smog.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

Canberra Times

China launches world's No.2 carbon trading market

China's plan to set up markets to trade emissions will make it second only to Europe in efforts to put a price on pumping carbon into the atmosphere.

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Earth Times

Coal, oil and gas are killing climate

Here is the Australian Climate Commission's complex figure showing global warming resulting largely from the burning of fossil fuel; image ; Credit: Australian Climate Commission The Australians have suffered more than most from climate change problems, with fire and flood dominating their headline news annually.

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FiveThirtyEight

Dot Earth Blog: Global Warming and Our Inconvenient Minds

I spent the first 20 years of my climate reporting focused on the buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases as a biogeophysical problem.

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Autoblog

Official: U of M researcher says plug-ins, hydrogen cars are 'no carbon cure-all'

Your Monday green-car buzzkill is brought to you buy University of Michigan research professor John DeCicco, who says more electric vehicles won't do much to slow global warming if energy-production methods aren't addressed.

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Alternative Energy Stocks

Income From Hydroelectric Power

Are you an investor hungry for current income? Is there a green line of global warming fear running through your investment selections? I have stock that fulfills both requirements.

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The Daily Caller

Study: Global cooling just as damaging as global warming

Global warming skeptics have frequently pointed out that not too long ago scientists were warnings about the dangers of global cooling.

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Reuters

Religions seen slow to go green; Pope has chance to inspire

Few religious communities have gone as far in fighting climate change as a church in Queensland, Australia, which has 24 solar panels bolted to the roof in the shape of a Christian cross.

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Time

Dwindling Snow Could Dry Out Los Angeles

While the national government remains slow to deal with climate change , many cities have been moving ahead.

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