
China Fears Disasters, Grain Cut from Global Warming (Environmental News Network: Thu, 28 Dec) Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and water shortages across China, driving down the country's food output, the Chinese government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption.
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Global Warming May Push U.S. to List Polar Bears as Threatened (Bloomberg.com: Thu, 28 Dec) Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) - Global warming is causing sea ice to melt, putting polar bears at risk and prompting the Bush administration to propose listing the cold-weather mammal as a threatened species, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said.
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Global warming puts polar bears on thin ice (The Washington Times: Thu, 28 Dec) Polar bears are in jeopardy and need stronger government protection because of melting Arctic sea ice related to global warming, the Bush administration said yesterday.
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Bush backtracks on global warming (Mail and Guardian: Thu, 28 Dec) The Bush administration on Wednesday made one of its most significant concessions to date on the dangers of global warming, proposing protection for the polar bear, whose habitat is threatened by the melting Arctic sea ice.
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Global warming not to blame for weather (Sentinel & Enterprise: Thu, 28 Dec) The surprisingly warm weather recently is not a manifestation of the often-blamed global warming. And it's not nationwide, either. "Las Vegas has already seen more snow than Fitchburg has this year," said Alan Durham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.
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