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New UN Assembly Pushes Climate Change, Environment As Top World Priority
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The first-ever United Nations Environmental Assembly opened in Kenya on Monday, as more than 150 high-level delegations began a weeklong examination of the intersection between...
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NASA to Launch Global Warming Satellite
LOS ANGELES — Five years after a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff, the space agency is launching a carbon copy — this time on a different rocket. The $468...
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Va. Group Releasing Plans to Combat Rising Sea Levels
NORFOLK, Va. — The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is preparing to release a report in Norfolk on how to adapt to rising sea levels. The group will release its recommendations on Wednesday. The...
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NASA Climate Scientist Explains 15-Year ‘Global Warming Hiatus’
HAMPTON, Va. (WNEW) – A NASA scientist described a recent “global warming hiatus” that shows Earth’s surface temperatures warming at a slower rate than previous decades – but it is still warming....
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Study: Extreme Summer Weather Will Become More Frequent
LONDON (CBS DC) – Get ready to face deadlier storms and even dryer summers. That’s the warning from a new report on climate change, reports The Independent. Researchers at the Potsdam Institute for...
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Study: Solar Activity Could Be Increasing Climate Change
LONDON (CBS DC) – Though major contributors, human beings are not the only cause of climate change. A new study shows the sun has a major influence on the global climate. Researchers from Lund...
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UN Report: Global Warming Human-Caused, Very High Risks
WASHINGTON (AP) – Global warming is here, human-caused and probably already dangerous — and it’s increasingly likely that the heating trend could be irreversible, a draft of a new international science...
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Hillary Clinton: Global Climate Change ‘The Most Consequential, Urgent,...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the U.S. should become what she called the world’s 21st-century clean energy superpower, during remarks resembling both a...
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UN: World’s Man-Made CO2 Pollution Levels At Annual Record High
GENEVA (AP) — Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2013 as increasing levels of man-made pollution transform the planet, the U.N. weather agency said Tuesday. As the...
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Scientists Link Wild Weather Cases To Man-Made Global Warming
WASHINGTON — Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them. Researchers found that climate change...
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D.C. Area Will Flood Daily in Just 30 Years, Study Says
LANHAM, Md. (WNEW) — Just three decades from now the District of Columbia and Annapolis will experience floods on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day, a recent report says. A new study predicts that...
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Scientists: Current Time Period May One Day Be Called ‘The Age Of Humans’
WASHINGTON (AP) – People are changing Earth so much, warming and polluting it, that many scientists are turning to a new way to describe the time we live in. They’re calling it the Anthropocene — the...
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Study: US Natural Gas Surge Won’t Slow Global Warming
WASHINGTON (AP) – Cheap and plentiful natural gas isn’t quite a bridge to a brighter energy future as claimed and won’t slow global warming, a new study projects. Abundant natural gas in the United...
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Kerry: US, China Must Work Together Against Climate Change
WASHINGTON (AP) – Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday the U.S. and China must work together to stave off a global catastrophe from climate change. He appealed for greater cooperation between the...
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U.S, China Unveil Ambitious Climate Change Goals
BEIJING (AP) — The United States and China pledged Wednesday to take ambitious action to limit greenhouse gases, aiming to inject fresh momentum into the global fight against climate change ahead of...
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‘It Doesn’t Change Things Much’: US-China Climate Pact Won’t Slow Warming
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t expect the landmark U.S.-China climate change agreement to nudge the world’s rising thermostat downward much on its own, scientists say. While they hail it as a start, experts...
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Study: Global Warming Will Cause 50 Percent Increase In US Lightning Strikes...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Global warming will cause a 50 percent increase the number of lightning strikes in the United States by 2100, according to a new study. Researchers found a 12 percent increase in...
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Obama Pledges $3 Billion To Help Poor Countries Confront Climate Change
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will give $3 billion to a U.N.-established fund to help poorer vulnerable countries prepare for a changing climate and develop cleaner energy, President Barack Obama...
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Obama Staking Final Two Years In White House On Climate Change
WASHINGTON (AP) — With limited time still in power, President Barack Obama is staking his final two years on climate change, pushing the issue to the front of his agenda as he seeks to leave an imprint...
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UN Scientists Warn It May Be Impossible To Prevent Rising Global Temperature
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Despite optimism among U.N. climate change negotiators, recent reports indicate there may be no way to prevent Earth’s temperature from rising before any deal could be put into...
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Feds: Don’t Blame Global Warming For California Drought
WASHINGTON (AP) – Don’t blame man-made global warming for the devastating California drought, a new federal report says. A report issued Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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Study: Hotter Days in U.S. Mean Less Cold Cash
WASHINGTON — Hotter days mean less cold cash for Americans, according to a new study matching 40 years of temperatures to economics. Days that averaged about 77 degrees ended up reducing people’s...
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NOAA, NASA Agree That 2014 Was The Warmest On Record
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record, federal scientists announced Friday. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA...
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Pope’s Climate-Change Stand Deepens Conservatives’ Distrust
NEW YORK (AP) — Conservative distrust of Pope Francis, which has been building in the U.S. throughout his pontificate, is reaching a boiling point over his plan to urge action on climate change — and...
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Senate Agrees Climate Change Is Real, But Can’t Agree On Cause
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate acknowledged Wednesday that climate change is real but refused to say humans are to blame. The series of votes publicly tested Republicans’ stance on...
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EPA: Keystone XL’s Climate Impacts Need To Be Revisited
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the recent dip in oil prices, the Environmental Protection Agency wants the State Department to “revisit” how much of a toll the Keystone XL oil pipeline would have on global...
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Scientist: ‘Global Weirding’ Better Way To Describe Climate Change Than...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – It may be time to retire the term “global warming” when talking about climate change. While the effects of climate change are real and happening now, say scientists, it can be...
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NOAA: This Winter Warmest On Record
(CBS DC) — Despite Boston’s record-breaking snowfall and the deep freeze that encapsulated most of the U.S. from December to February, this winter was the warmest on record. It may be hard to believe,...
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Study Finds Methane Emissions Dropping In US
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Researchers have found that methane emissions from local natural gas distribution systems across the U.S. have decreased in the past 20 years. The researchers at Washington State...
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Rubio’s Climate Change Views Could Hurt 2016 Presidential Bid
Sen. Marco Rubio, 43, has announced his 2016 presidential bid, and with it, has billed himself as the younger, fresher choice for president with both his age and message being key parts of his...
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Study: Man-Made Global Warming To Cause 95 Percent Of Very Hot Days By 2050
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find yourself sweating out a day that is monstrously hot, chances are you can blame humanity. A new report links three out of four such days to man’s effects on climate. And as...
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Study: Man-Made Global Warming To Cause 95 Percent Of Very Hot Days By 2050
WASHINGTON (AP) — If you find yourself sweating out a day that is monstrously hot, chances are you can blame humanity. A new report links three out of four such days to man’s effects on climate. And as...
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Expert: ‘All Coastal Cities Become Dysfunctional’ If Sea Levels Rise Several...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — NASA’s former climate chief is warning that coastal cities could “become dysfunctional” if sea levels rise. James Hansen told CBS News that melting polar ice caps could raise sea...
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Study: Glaciers Melting Faster Than Ever
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The world’s glaciers are melting at an unprecedented and alarming rate, warns a new study. Scientists compiled tens of thousands of observations, some going all the way back to the...
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Report: July 2015 Warmest Month Recorded For The Globe
WASHINGTON (CSBDC)– July 2015 had the highest average temperatures ever recorded, and not just in the U.S. but on the entire globe, according to a report released by the National Oceanic and...
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Scientists: Greenland Glacier Loses Massive Chunk Of Ice
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Global warming may have caused a huge glacier to lose five square miles of ice in just two days. The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland was already the fastest moving glacier in the...
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Study: Global Warming, Evolution Reshaping Bodies Of American Bumblebees
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming and evolution are reshaping the bodies of some American bumblebees, a new study finds. The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one-quarter...
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Study: ‘Day After Tomorrow’ Ice Age Could Be Close To Reality
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – When Roland Emmerich’s “The Day After Tomorrow” came out in 2004, climatologists panned the disaster movie’s science. They ridiculed the imagined future of climate change as sudden...
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Poll: Most Americans Know Climate Is Changing, But They’re Not That Worried
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are hot but not too bothered by global warming. Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are just not that worried about it, according to a new poll by...
View ArticleCBS News Poll: Most Americans Skeptical Of Immediate Impact Of Global Warming
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — A new poll finds that many Americans are skeptical of the immediate impact global warming can cause on the planet. A CBS News Poll finds that only 46 percent of Americans...
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