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'Climategate' casts shadow over UN talksCopenhagen (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 Scientists and negotiators at UN talks voiced outrage Monday over the theft of email exchanges between climate scientists, denouncing the hack as an attempt to muddy public opinion on global warming. Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, called for a neutral investigation into allegations that scientific data had been manipulated to exaggerate the threat of climate change. At ceremonies opening the ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009Americans who think global warming is caused by human activity, including vehicle and industrial emissions, are now a minority for the first time in nearly two years, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said Monday. Only 45 percent of the 1,041 adults surveyed on December 2-3 believed global warming is a proven fact and mostly caused by human activity, down from 56 percent in October 2007, the ... more  
Brookings SD (SPX) Dec 08, 2009South Dakota State University researchers and their colleagues elsewhere in America and in France have found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809. The discovery helps explain the record cold decade from 1810-1819. Researchers made the finding by analyzing chemicals in ice samples from snow-capped ... more 
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009The US government said Monday it would start to regulate carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant, sidestepping a divided Congress to give momentum to global climate talks in Copenhagen. The decision paves the way for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue standards on how much carbon US factories, buildings and cars can emit, even without legislation in Congress. ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 Should Germans laugh about Adolf Hitler? The Deutsche Theater in Berlin last week gave its own "Yes" answer by staging a theatrical version of "To Be or Not To Be," Ernst Lubitsch's 1942 cult movie that satirizes Germany's takeover of Poland. The play centers on a group of theater actors in Poland who drop their SS play for Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in order not to provoke Nazi Ge ... more  
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 Two U.S. federal agencies say they have created software designed to offer farmers online help in assessing food production security methods. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service say the risk assessment tool called Agriculture CARVER + Shock is designed to help the food industry at the farm level implement food production security ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 7, 2009The International Monetary Fund announced Monday it would provide a 9.3-million-dollar lifeline to Samoa to help the country recover from a September earthquake and tsunami disaster. The IMF executive board on Monday approved the aid to Samoa under the rapid-access component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF), a lending instrument to help a country deal with a major negative impact ... more |
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