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Group: Plug-in, hybrid cars key to clean air
- The Arizona Republic (new window)
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2010-01-22 |
| SCOTTSDALE - Electric and hybrid vehicles, along with renewable energy sources developed by utilities, can help clear Arizona's air, leaders of an environmental group said Thursday. | |
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State working to cut greenhouse gas emissions
- The State Press (new window)
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2009-12-08 |
| Agencies and energy providers in Arizona are taking action to slow the increase in greenhouse gas emissions throughout the state. Nationally, there has been a 19 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions between 1990 and 2007, the most recent data available, according to an Environment Arizona report on Arizona’s carbon dioxide emissions released in November. At 61 percent, Arizona has seen the largest increase in carbon dioxide emissions in the country, according to the report. | |
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CO2 pollution soars in Ariz., new study says
- The Arizona Republic (new window)
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2009-11-13 |
| The amount of carbon-dioxide pollution in Arizona's skies grew a breathtaking 61 percent over the past two decades, reflecting a rapid period of expansion in the state and across the West. | |
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Study shows level of pollution in Arizona has jumped
- NBC4 KVOA (new window)
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2009-11-12 |
| Many people think vehicles are the biggest pollutants to our environment when it comes to fossil fuel emissions but electric companies are the worst. | |
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Arizona Pollution Up 61 Percent Since 1990
- CBS5 KPHO Phoenix (new window)
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2009-11-12 |
| Arizona's global warming pollution has increased by 61 percent since 1990, according to a new analysis of government data released Thursday by Environment Arizona. | |
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Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
- The Washington Post (new window)
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2008-01-14 |
| Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates. | |
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A huge drop in sea ice sparks plea: 'The Arctic is screaming'
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (new window)
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2007-12-12 |
| The dramatic decline of Arctic ice in recent summers greatly accelerated this year, a sign that some alarmed scientists worry could mean global warming is picking up speed. | |
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Warming planet spawning fierce storms, studies say
- http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1205climate-storms1205.html#comments (new window)
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2007-12-05 |
| A second study released by the advocacy group Environment Arizona found a marked increase in the number of big storms over the past 50 years and used existing climate research to link the surge to climate change. | |
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Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report
- The New York Times (new window)
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2007-12-03 |
| Thousands of government officials, industry lobbyists, environmental campaigners and observers are arriving on the Indonesian island of Bali for two weeks of talks starting Monday that are aimed at breathing new life into the troubled 15-year-old global climate treaty. | |
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U.N. issues landmark report on global warming
- MSNBC.COM (new window)
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2007-11-17 |
| The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer age at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction. | |
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Greenland's ice sheet melts as temperatures rise
- CNN.COM (new window)
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2007-10-24 |
| From the air, Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest on Earth, appears to be perfectly still. But below the surface, the ice sheet is in constant motion, as ice built up in the interior pushes toward the coast in the form of massive glaciers. During warmer months, ice from these glaciers melts into the ocean. It's an age-old process that scientists say has speeded up in recent decades because of global warming. | |
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Rising Faster Than Predicted, Study Says
- Bloomberg.com (new window)
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2007-10-22 |
| The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is rising faster than expected as oceans and the land absorb a lower proportion of the gas and humans become less efficient at producing energy, an Australian-led team of scientists said. | |
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Climate activists tipped for peace prize
- Reuters (new window)
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2007-10-05 |
| Former Vice President Al Gore and other campaigners against climate change lead experts' choices for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, an award once reserved for statesmen, peacemakers and human rights activists. | |
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Wal-Mart sells 100M 'green' bulbs
- The Arizona Republic (new window)
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2007-10-03 |
| Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reached an annual target of selling 100 million energy-efficient light bulbs ahead of schedule after heavily marketing them as a way for consumers to save money and fight global warming, the retailer said Tuesday. | |
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Bush Steps Out Front on Climate Issue
- Washington Post (new window)
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2007-09-23 |
| Amid a mounting sense of urgency about the need for action to slow climate change, President Bush this week will be playing what is, for him, an unusually prominent role in high-level diplomatic meetings on how to confront global warming. What he will not do, officials said, is chart any shift in policies that have put him at odds with much of the world on the issue. | |
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Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming
- New York Times (new window)
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2007-09-23 |
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner. His focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in Washington later this week, a meeting with the same stated goal, a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change, but a fundamentally different idea of how to achieve it. Mr. Bush’s aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the United Nations’ process — hijacking it, as his critics charge. | |
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Rising seas likely to flood U.S. history
- San Jose Mercury News (new window)
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2007-09-22 |
| Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. In about a century, some of the places that make America what it is may be slowly erased. Global warming—through a combination of melting glaciers, disappearing ice sheets and warmer waters expanding—is expected to cause oceans to rise by one meter, or about 39 inches. It will happen regardless of any future actions to curb greenhouse gases, several leading scientists say. And it will reshape the nation. | |
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Scientist Measures an Overlooked Greenhouse Gas
- NPR.ORG (new window)
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2007-09-10 |
| Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, which means it is much more efficient at trapping heat. As a result, methane feeds into a loop of global warming. | |
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Melting ice cap triggering earthquakes
- The Guardian (new window)
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2007-09-08 |
| -Estimates of sea-level rise out of date, say scientists -Religious leaders pray for planet at Greenland glacier | |
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APEC Leaders Adopt Global Warming Statement
- NewsVOA.com (new window)
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2007-09-08 |
| Pacific Rim leaders have adopted a statement on climate change setting forth the "aspirational goal" of reducing climate-changing emissions, rather than setting the firm emission-reduction targets that environmentalists would have liked to see. | |
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Scientists: Dramatic sea ice loss by 2050
- CNN.COM (new window)
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2007-09-07 |
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Scorching U.S. heat in 2006 blamed on humans
- CNN.COM (new window)
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2007-08-29 |
| Warming caused by human activity was the biggest factor in the high temperatures recorded in 2006, according to a report by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. | |
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Australia switches on to light bulb change
- Guardian Unlimited (new window)
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2007-02-20 |
| Australia will ban incandescent light bulbs to help cut greenhouse gas emissions, its government announced today. | |
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