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... Environmentalists cheered at the law, which is still known as Assembly Bill 32, even though it's now a law. (Its official title is the Global Warming Solutions Act.) And Schwarzenegger boasted that California led the nation, and possibly the world, in promoting green energy and reducing dangerous emissions. The ...
... the developing world, food is cooked with wood or cow dung. The soot or black carbon from incomplete combustion causes not only lung disease, but global warming, says climatologist V. Ramanathan, who is with the Scripps Institution at the University of California, San Diego. V. RAMANATHAN: And this is being ...
JIM LEHRER: The Group of Eight industrial nations agreed today on a pledge to limit global warming. President Obama joined his fellow leaders in making that commitment at a gathering in Italy. He conceded the worldwide recession is an obstacle, but he said the G-8 made "important strides." U.S ...
President Barack Obama asked regulators to reconsider waivers that would allow California and other states to set their own standards for auto emissions and responded to new concerns about the economy at the start of his first full week in office. Jeffrey Brown reports on the developments.
Nobel-prize winning physicist Steven Chu said at a hearing Tuesday that if he is confirmed as energy secretary, he plans to aggressively pursue policies to combat global warming.
Question/Comment: Much has been said about the potential costs to the oil and auto industries regarding global warming/CO2 greenhouse gas tailpipe and smokestack emissions. Perhaps overlooked is the detrimental effects the carbonated beverage industries would suffer, if the people concerned with human-caused global warming pursue that angle ...
... JEFFREY BROWN: On Monday, the United Nations hosted a gathering on the same issue. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon presented a different approach, based on global action and mandatory targets. BAN KI-MOON, United Nations Secretary-General: National action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its ...
... state climatologist," since there is no such official position, and by claiming he speaks for Oregon, he undercuts the governor's concerted efforts to fight global warming. Kulongoski believes warming will bring huge economic costs to eastern Oregon farms, flooding from greater springtime rains, parched fields from summertime droughts. In ...
... series, released in February, found that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses released by human activity were almost certainly causing most of the Earth's warming since 1950. The second report, released in April, found that global warming is already changing weather patterns around the world, and that hundreds of ...
... retired U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Richard Truly said in the report. Other recent studies have come to similar conclusions. A March report by the Global Business Network found that rising sea levels and other climate change consequences could lead to strife in countries like Bangladesh, parts of which may ...
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