Bush to address global warming in annual speech (Reuters via Yahoo! News: Tue, 16 Jan) President Bush will outline a policy on global warming next week in his State of the Union speech but has not dropped his opposition to mandatory limits on greenhouse-gas emissions, the White House said on Tuesday.
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Environment ministers lack clout on global warming (Reuters via Yahoo! News: Tue, 16 Jan) Environment ministers lack power to lead a fight against global warming at a time when ever more governments portray climate change as one of the biggest threats to the planet, experts say.
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'Global Warming not caused by Carbon Dioxide emissions' (IANS via Yahoo! India News: Wed, 17 Jan) St. Petersburg, Jan 17 (RIA Novosti) Rising levels of carbon dioxide and other gases emitted through human activity, generally believed to trap heat in the earth's atmosphere, are an effect rather than the cause of global warming, according to a prominent Russian scientist.
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New UN Leader Urged To Take Lead On Global Warming (Nasdaq: Wed, 17 Jan) UNITED NATIONS (AP)-The U.N.'s top climate change official urged the new U.N. secretary-general to fill a global leadership vacuum and mobilize world leaders and the private sector to adopt a new policy to tackle global warming in the coming decades.
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Global Warming to Take Center Stage at Anchorage Conference (RedNova: Wed, 17 Jan) By Margaret Bauman, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Jan. 15-Global warming issues will take center stage Feb. 12-16 in Anchorage, as participants in the 2007 Alaska Forum on the Environment discuss the significance of climate change to Alaska, the Arctic and the nation.
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Lawmakers hear approach to fighting global warming (Boston Globe: Tue, 16 Jan) An author and entrepreneur urged Vermont lawmakers Tuesday to consider capping carbon emissions by selling permits for discharges to oil companies and some fuel dealers and then returning the proceeds to citizens, all in a bid to reduce the state's role in global warming.
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Letters: Global warming facts are worrisome (Corvallis Gazette Times: Wed, 17 Jan) In response to Ken Moore's Jan. 15 letter 'Global warming? Don't worry so much,' I suggest we be very concerned about global warming. Since Mr. Moore suggests a scientific approach, let's try one: Serious science is disseminated to the public via peer-reviewed scientific journal articles.
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