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us/New Honda is powered by hydrogen, not fossil fuels
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Honda Motor of Japan has launched the world’s first hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle intended for mass production. Although it will make just 200 of its FCX Clarity vehicles over the next thre...
us/Solutions: New trading funds highlight expanding role of wind in global warming struggle
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Two new Exchange Traded Funds, filed within days of each other with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will focus on companies that provide products and services to the wind-energy indu...
us/Does economists’ change of tune herald turning point on climate change?
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The most interesting aspect of the 1,700 prominent signatories urging U.S. politicians to make immediate, deep reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions is that so many of them are economists. Predic...
us/Book cites population growth as key driver of global warming
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After virtually abandoning the issue for three decades, the environmental movement got a bold reality check this week from a new book highlighting relentless human population growth as a driving f...
us/Costs of ignoring global warming far steeper than taking action
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In sharp contrast to denier’s claims that action against global warming will trigger economic catastrophe, a new study has concluded it would actually be cheaper to cut greenhouse-gas emissions tha...
us/University research linked to global warming
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A Canadian scientist says university research should be added to the list of human activities that contribute to global warming. Professor Hervé Philippe from the University of Montreal has disco...
us/Solutions: Switch to faucet fuel from fossil fuel to stop global warming
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Is it possible that amidst all the bogus claims, political controversy and foul cries about looming economic destruction, there’s actually a simple solution to the ravages of climate change? A pro...
us/Judge tells US to decide on polar bears, poll tells presidential hopefuls to gird for action
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A federal judge has rejected the Bush Administration’s bid for further delay and ordered it to decide by May 15 whether to provide protection for polar bears whose Arctic habitat is melting due to ...
us/EPA scientists drop bombshell in political-interference survey
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Science around environmental matters has long been dismissed in the rough and tumble of U.S. politics, but many scientists contend things got markedly worse through two terms under President Bush, ...
us/Nature throws one-two punch at global warming
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The Nature article says the climate problem is much greater than forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change due to rising use of coal in Asian nations, especially China and India, wh...
us/DeSmogBlog reader's comment prods thinking on World Bank coal-plant loan
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My post about the World Bank loaning India $450 million to build a new coal-fired power plant prompted a DeSmog reader to ask if I’m “against the idea of a plant that has less pollution than previo...
us/Indigenous peoples seek key role in global climate talks
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A climate conference in Brazil’s Amazon basin has drawn indigenous groups from 11 Latin American countries, Indonesia and Congo. In the largest gathering of its kind, they came to forge a plan wher...
us/World Bank group loans India $450 million for massive coal-power project
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A New York Times article described the Tata loan agreement as illustrative of the “troubling tension” between driving development and curbing climate risk in a world still wedded to fossil fuels. ...
us/Obama eyes Gore for a major climate-change post
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Barack Obama has told a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania he would select Al Gore to play a major role in an Obama administration. Using his strongest language yet about his intention to arrest c...
us/Gore kick starts sweeping program to slash U.S. carbon emissions
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Former Vice President Al Gore has launched a three-year, $300 million campaign calling for the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, linking the effort with other historic endeavors like stoppin...
us/Global warming threatens millions in teeming South Asia, study finds
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About 125 million people could be made homeless by rising sea levels due to a projected four-to-five degrees Celsius increase in global temperature this century. Research released by Greenpeace sa...
us/Fraser Institute pitching to students in latest attempt to cloud global warming evidence
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Having failed last year to discredit the International Panel on Climate Change, the Fraser Institute is hoping to have better luck brainwashing today’s youth. The ExxonMobil-funded organization h...
us/Coal-power boom falters in stampede to alternative sources
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The race to coal-fired plants is falling behind the competition as global warming drives the steady shift to more planet-friendly fuels. About 45 coal-fired power plants were either cancelled or d...
us/Highway dustup in British Columbia highlights gap between talk and action on climate change
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One only has to go a few miles northwest of B.C.’s capital in Victoria to see what governments are really doing about global warming. While provincial Finance Minister Carole Taylor was finalizing...
us/Population growth, increasing wealth join climate change as threat to food supplies
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Rampant population growth and rising wealth in developing countries are driving up demand for food, a UK official says, while global warming also imperils food stores through decreased rainfall and...

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