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May 23, 2012

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120523/trees-forests-co2-carbon-

Trees may not be the planetary saviors people have been counting on in a warming climate.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/22/heartland-beati

The ultra-conservative group's climate conference showed how far it has fallen after an internet sting and a disastrous ad.

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http://wvgazette.com/News/201205220148

Industry and political leaders launched a three-city tour they hope will generate more vocal opposition from West Virginians to Obama administration proposals to reduce coal's impacts on water and air quality, public health and global warming.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/african-fossils-may

Having read the past, anthropologist Richard Leakey offered a few blunt words Monday about a future that would be warmer and wetter. “I was wondering,” he said from the podium, in a dining room built over the Hudson, “how many dinners you will be able to have at Pier 60 before it went underwater.”

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/22/government-anno

The biggest reforms to the UK energy sector in two decades were set out on Tuesday, prompting warnings from consumer groups and green campaigners that they would raise bills and penalise renewable energy while boosting nuclear power.

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http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2178954/g8-pledges-climate-acti

Any optimism that world leaders are forcing climate change back up the political agenda has been quickly diluted by reports that UN climate change negotiations in Bonn have again stalled.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/05/120522-carbon-captu

For a world dependent on fossil fuels, carbon capture and storage could be a key to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. But the technology meant to scrub carbon dioxide pollution from the air is experiencing stiff headwinds that have stalled many projects at the bottom line.

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http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3568826

Few Canadians are losing sleep over global warming and the state of the world's rainforests, according to a public opinion survey conducted exclusively for QMI Agency.

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http://www.climatecentral.org/news/g-8-leaders-agree-to-cut-emissions

The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations formally joined a coalition that is working to reduce emissions of short-lived global warming pollutants.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/Climate-change-hits-fruit-cr

If the mangoes and the humble chickoos disappear from your fruit basket in coming years, blame it on nothing else but climate change.

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