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Top expert hopes Copenhagen summit failsLondon (AFP) Dec 3, 2009 A leading scientist who helped alert the world to the dangers of global warming said Thursday that climate talks in Copenhagen next week were based on such flawed proposals that he hoped they failed. James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies since 1981, said attempts to forge a global deal on cutting emissions after the Kyoto treaty expires were based on a "fundamentally wrong" approach. "I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it's a disaster track." ... read more |
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Davis, Calif. (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 A U.S. gerontologist says genetic advantages allow us to outlive our ape ancestors, although we are more susceptible to diseases of aging. In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum life spans rarely exceeding 50 years. The difference, says University of Southern California-Davis Professor Caleb Finch, is as humans evolved, their genes enable ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 3, 2009One person died and many were injured in a violent protest Thursday against cuts in water supplies in India's financial capital following the worst monsoon rains since 1972, a report said. A crowd of about 3,000 people demonstrated outside municipal headquarters in Mumbai demanding an easing of the 30-percent cut in supplies for many parts of the city of 18 million people, the Press Trust of ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 3, 2009US lawmakers on Thursday rolled out business leaders who back action on climate change, hoping to counter criticism that a deal at this month's Copenhagen summit would hit the wobbly US economy. Four days before the high-stakes climate meeting opens in the Danish capital, President Barack Obama and his allies are trying to show US commitment to a global deal even though key legislation has y ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 2, 2009The UN climate chief voiced optimism Wednesday that the upcoming Copenhagen summit will offer immediate aid for developing nations but urged rich states also to chart out long-term help. Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said it was vital that developing countries come out of the December 7-18 summit with assurances so they can plan more carbo ... more  
La Jolla, Calif. (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 Researchers in California say the voices of male blue whales have gotten lower by 31 percent since the 1960s, although the reasons why aren't clear. Mark McDonald of WhaleAcoustics, which conducted the study with researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., reported in the journal Endangered Species Research that recording devices off California had to b ... more 
Sydney (AFP) Dec 3, 2009Authorities were trucking water into drought-hit Australian towns Thursday, with supply in some places trickling to as little as eight hours, officials said. Severe water restrictions were declared across much of south-eastern Queensland state, with critical shortages in the hinterland towns of Blackwater and Maleny. Further inland the farming town of Dalby had just hours of supply left, ... more |
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