Global warming issue gains 'traction' with new Congress (USA Today: Tue, 30 Jan) After years of being on Congress' back burner, global warming will be a focus of the new Democratic majority trying to follow cities and states that have tackled the issue. The Senate will hold its first global warming hearing of the year Tuesday.
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World leaders urged to act on global warming study (Reuters via Yahoo! News: Mon, 29 Jan) World governments should take heed of the most wide-ranging scientific assessment so far of a human link to global warming and agree prompt action to slow the trend, the chairman of a U.N. climate report said on Monday.
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Washington Wakes Up To Global Warming (CBS News: Mon, 29 Jan) Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro.
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Global warming may affect Indonesia isles (AP via Yahoo! News: Mon, 29 Jan) Rising sea levels because of global warming stand to inundate around 2,000 islands in Indonesia by 2030, the country's environment minister said Monday.
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Global warming: Top scientists meet in Paris (AFP via Yahoo! News: Mon, 29 Jan) The world's top climate experts are geared for a four-day meeting in Paris where they are set to launch a long-awaited update about the scientific evidence for global warming.
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