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The UN climate change conference in Copenhagen has one critical goal: a global treaty to help cut carbon emissions to levels that will prevent dangerous rises in global temperatures and catastrophic climate change. That deal must set goals for cutting global CO2 emissions: some say a 50 percent red...

February 27, 2009 Apple Inc. had its shareholder meeting Wednesday and the media focused on the absence of its charismatic leader Steve Jobs. But there's an even more famous guy associated with Apple. Al Gore is one of my heroes. As a journalist, I covered him as a Senator 20 years ago in Washingto...

By AL GORE It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it. Of course, we would still need to deal with the n...

Japan PM to draft Green New Deal Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will order his ministries to draft a "Green New Deal" this week to counter the twin threats of climate change and the economic downturn, a report said Sunday. Aso will order a stimulus package focusing on slashing greenhouse gases a...

CLIMATE SCIENCETransport ministers plot climate action in Japan Nations have already been toughening standards for car emissions -- decisions mostly taken before the current economic crisis which has battered the auto industry.by Staff WritersTokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2009 Officials from 20 nations met ...

Aboriginals in Australia's Outback will be among the hardest hit Australians from climate change. It will cause great suffering both in disease increase but also from seeing their ancestral land ravaged. This news release by the Medical Journal or Australia, addresses the question in the Earth Prot...

The Associated Press has some mixed news for environmentalists. The economic downturn may "make it more difficult to pass a law to reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gases." On the plus side, it may very well make it more necessary. Members of both parties argue against one of the most popular carbon ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has just launched a major operation tracing climate change. They do this by using their new Climate Change Prediction technology,the Department of Energy, through the Office of Environmental and Biological Research and the hard work of William Collins of Berkeley Lab’s...

I have several uuber conservative friends that believe global warming is a political and media invention to raise gas prices and destroy the economy. I do find articles from scientists (180?) that disagree with the evidence for global warming. What do you think? Where does one go for clarification ...

"SLAP stands for “sea level awareness project.” It’s a local community activist project designed to raise awareness of the danger of sea level rise in my community here in Ventura. If Greenland completely melts (which, scientists say could happen before 2100,) sea level would rise over 20 feet worl...