 Global warming boosts crop disease
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Tue, 14 Aug) Global warming will fuel a disease that annually causes hundreds of million dollars in damage to rapeseed plants, used to make canola oil, according to a study released Tuesday.
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 NASA tweaks temperature data, but it says global warming skeptics are way out of line
(Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: Wed, 15 Aug) WASHINGTON - NASA has slightly revised its record of average annual temperatures in the United States since 2000 -- modifications that researchers say are insignificant but that some conservative commentators and bloggers have seized upon to assert that global warming has been hyped as a problem. The revisions, by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, stemmed from an error noticed by ...
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 ENVIRONMENT METI to request Y80 bil to curb global warming
(Japan Today: Wed, 15 Aug) TOKYO — The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will request 80 billion yen in the state budget for next fiscal year to promote technology development for curbing global warming, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akira Amari said Wednesday.
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 Scientists: Newsweek Erred in Global Warming Coverage
(Addict 3D: Wed, 15 Aug) A recent Newsweek magazine cover story on global warming contained significant errors and used outdated scientific material in its representation of global climate data collected by satellites, according to the scientists who maintain that dataset at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
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 Experts Prepare For UN Global Warming Conference
(Scoop.co.nz: Wed, 15 Aug) One thousand representatives from governments, business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions will gather in Vienna at the end of this month to set the stage for a major United Nations conference in December on further reducing the greenhouse gases from human activity blamed for global warming.
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 State seeking to cut CO2, curb global warming
(BizJournals: Tue, 14 Aug) The Ritter administration is working on a slate of recommendations for the governor on what Colorado can do to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and cut the state's contribution to global warming.
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 Congress needs to address global warming
(Independent: Tue, 14 Aug) In this day and age we are faced with many problems concerning global warming. Global warming poses as a real threat to New Jersey's economy, impacting the state's tourism, agriculture and forest industries that depend on the healthy ecosystems, as stated in the National Wildlife Federation's Solution to Global Warming found at www.nwf.org/globalwarming.
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 Global-warming leg will mean new tax
(Edison Sentinel: Tue, 14 Aug) This letter is in response to Eddie Konczal's letter to the editor, "Congress: Follow N.J.'s Global-Warming Lead" (Suburban, July 26), praising the New Jersey Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act. He also uses the newly revised term for global warming, which is global climate change.
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