Global warming may be leading to higher rice yields in China: IRRI (AFP via Yahoo! News: Tue, 23 Oct) Global warming appears to have led to higher rice yields in northern China while free trade, changing diets, and rapid urbanisation is leading to a decline in rice production elsewhere, officials from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said.
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Inhofe Warns of Global Warming Laws (US News & World Report: Tue, 23 Oct) GOP Sen. James Inhofe, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, faulted Democratic Chairwoman Barbara Boxer's leadership of the committee this morning in the most recent of a series of attacks on her handling of global warming legislation.
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Targeting global warming -- New rhetoric or emissions cuts? (Market Watch: Tue, 23 Oct) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- As the concern over global warming has heated up among the world's leaders and the expiration of an international climate treaty draws nearer, evidence points to a rise in rhetoric rather than a rise in effective action to address the increasingly urgent problem of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Global warming will 'cull world's species' (Daily Telegraph: Tue, 23 Oct) GLOBAL warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study released today which shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching back half a billion years.
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