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DuPont recognizes global warming.(In The News)
As a member of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change GROCC, DuPont issued the following statement from DuPont Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer Linda Fisher: "Climate change is a serious issue that has to be addressed through c As a member of the Global Roundtable...
Tags: Climate Change, DuPont Co., global warming, greenhouse gas
Research articles 2007-03-01
Greenhouse debate; Bush administration defends work to critics.(News)(George W. Bush)
Byline: Bruce Geiselman The Bush administration is committed to addressing global climate change issues, but the scientific community needs to learn more about its causes, administration officials told attendees of a three-day climate change Byline: Bruce Geiselman...
Tags: Bush Administration, climate change, George W. Bush, global warming, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2002-12-09
Funds raise global warming alarm to SEC; Pension leaders link investment risk with enviro concern.(News)(Securities & Exchange Commission)
Byline: Elizabeth Thompson Beckley Leaders of 13 major pension funds are calling on the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to issue guidance on the enforcement of existing rules that they say include disclosure of the financial risks o ...
Tags: climate change, company, financial, global warming, investor, leader, pension fund, SEC, shareholder
Research articles 2004-04-26
Greenpeace, insurer dialogue grows.
As hurricanes, natural fires, storms, droughts and floods have continued to plague the United States over the last few years, the dialogue about climate change between environmental groups and the insurance industry appears to have gained some momentumAs hurricanes, natural fires, storms, droughts and floods have ...
Tags: climate change, insurance company, fossil fuel, global warming
Research articles 1995-01-23
Congress Debates Global Warming Policy.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
Partisan differences arise on how best to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS agree that action is needed to combat global climate change, but lawmakers differ widely on how to go about solving the problem. ...
Tags: carbon dioxide, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gas, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2001-05-14
NASA leader warns of climate change disaster.(News)
Byline: Bruce Geiselman The likelihood of Congress passing meaningful climate change legislation in the next few years is improving as the public learns more about the issue, said James Hansen, one of the nation's top climate change scientist ...
Tags: carbon dioxide, climate change, global warming, leader, NASA, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-11-06
White House Faces Republican Opposition Over Global Warming Money.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
THE WHITE HOUSE is asking Congress to approve a $2.4 billion spending and tax package for programs to address global warming in fiscal 2001--a 40 percent increase over the previous year's climate change budget. In his State of the Union Addre...
Tags: Administration, climate change, global warming, tax, tax credit, U.S. Congress, White House
Research articles 2000-02-21
Global warming and the ABC: A pernicious mixture of science and environmentalism
GLOBAL warming is arguably the most significant environmental concern of the '90s. Some argue that greenhouse gas emissions a consequence of human activity are resulting in global warming and that this will lead to environmental catastrophes in the next century. Some believe that we are already experiencing catastrophic climate change,...
Tags: ABC Inc., climate change, environmentalism, global warming, greenhouse gas
Research articles 1999-06-01
It's time to act; Senate panel says U.S. must address global warming.(News)(Brief article)
Byline: Bruce Geiselman The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bipartisan resolution expressing the Senate's belief that the United States must address global climate change through the negotiation of fair and effective international Byline: Bruce Geiselman ...
Tags: climate change, global warming, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-06-05
Administration launches initial phase of global warming plan.(Bush administration )
THE BUSH administration is launching the initial phase of its strategic plan for dealing with global warming, but officials say significant uncertainties remain about the causes and effects of climate change. The White House draft strategy, d THE...
Tags: Bush Administration, climate change, global warming, White House
Research articles 2002-12-09
Geoengineering: From Crackpot Theorizing to Excuse Du Jour
Governments across the world have promised to reduce their emissions -- yet failed to actually do so. Majorities of their populations are opposed to spending much time or money combating climate change. Is it time to muster up more political will? Not if there's any alternative. And that alternative's name,...
Tags: Planet, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Engineering, Government, Chris Morrison
Blog posts 2009-08-14
Green index funds fight smog, global warming.(Short Interests)
Byline: Riva Froymovich NEW YORK - The FTSE Group's FTSE4Good Index Series has released a new set of standards for inclusion in the index. Those standards aim to identify companies behaving responsibly with regard to carbon...
Tags: Climate Change, company, global warming, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., standards
Research articles 2007-03-05
Climate Change: CO2 is Not the Only Gas Attack
How is your company air-conditioning its buildings? It may be the equipment it's using is unsustainable, even though it complies with today's environmental regulations. Although CO2 is by far the most common greenhouse gas (gases that are trapped in the earth's atmosphere which retain...
Tags: Financial, Carbon Dioxide, Greenhouse Gas, Climate Change, Global Warming, Attack, HFC, Shaun McCarthy
Blog posts 2009-11-24

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GLOBAL WARMING REPORT: The Panel - Two years, and 1,057 scientists
THE INTERGOVERNMENT Panel on Climate Change was set up jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation in 1988. Its remit is to provide an authoritative, international consensus of scientific opinion on climate change using the best expertise available. The IPCC is in...
Tags: Cambridge University Press
Research articles 2001-07-12
Moms Against Climate Change - Kids vs Police / Demonstration - (2009) :30 (Canada)
This PSA is making waves in Canada as part of a new campaign to demand action from Canada's Prime Minister at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. I hate to say that kids joining en masse in demonstrations reminds me of the punk-soundtracked ad for KPA Pension...
Tags: mom, Climate Change, Children
News items 2009-11-04
NASA administrator Michael Griffin recently caused an uproar when he told NPR that, although he has no doubt that global warming exists, he felt that NASA's role was solely to research climate change, and was "not sure that it is fair to say that it
* NASA administrator Michael Griffin recently caused an uproar when he told NPR that, although he has no doubt that global warming exists, he felt that NASA's role was solely to research climate change, and was "not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we...
Tags: NASA, NPR
Research articles 2007-07-09
Kenya's Maasai plead for help against global warming
NAIROBI AFP — Members of Kenya's Maasai tribe have appealed for "urgent action" to fight climate change, saying global warming for which they are not responsible is destroying their traditional way of life. On the sidelines of crucial UN climate change meeting in the Kenyan capital, they said their time-honored,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Government
Research articles 2006-11-10
Congress begins to feel heat from global warming danger
In February last year, the chairman of the Senate energy committee sat down at Los Alamos National Laboratory for a private briefing on climate change. Was global warming real, Sen. Pete Domenici wanted to know. He turned for answers to a federal lab that he had gazed...
Tags: carbon, regulation, Republican, scientist, Sen., U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2006-04-04
Nightmare Outlook For Global Warming
The climate has its own bulls and bears. Twenty-six of the bears -- climatologists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other organizations -- released a report today, which unofficially updates an IPCC report from 2007. The new report is timed to...
Tags: report, carbon dioxide, Emission
News items 2009-11-24
Clear skies -- cloudy forecast. (Environmental Analysis).(Clear Skies Initiative)(Global Climate Change Initiative)(Brief Article)
On February 14, 2002, President Bush delivered two major proposals addressing air quality and global warming: the Clear Skies Initiative CSI and Global Climate Change Initiative GCCI. The proposals were in response to criticism the Bush administr On February 14, 2002, President Bush delivered two major...
Tags: Bush, Clear, global warming
Research articles 2002-05-01
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