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26.Greenhouse Development Rights framework (gdrights.org)
The Greenhouse Development Rights framework is designed to support a global emergency climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.
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27.Barack Obama's key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign (www.guardian.co.uk)
America's oil, gas and coal industry has increased its lobbying budget by 50%, with key players spending $44.5m in the first three months of this year in an intense effort to cut off support for Barack Obama's plan to build a clean energy economy.
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28.Taking care of business: How big business has hijacked climate talks (www.wombles.org.uk)
Until recently, many of the globe's biggest corporations were firmly in the climate change denial camp - and funding spurious research to back up their claims. Now a new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it's a business opportunity.
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29.Worldmapper: Carbon Emissions 2000 (www.worldmapper.org)
Territory size shows the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 that were directly from there.
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30.Your Weather: Our igloo - The Weather Network Sudbury (www.theweathernetwork.com)
It took us about 3hours to make this coned looking igloo, it was a perfect day, the snow was sticky and it wasent raining or snowing.
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31.TckTckTck | The World is Ready (tcktcktck.org)
TckTckTck is an unprecedented global alliance, representing hundreds of millions of people from all walks of life. It is made up of leading international, national and local organizations addressing environment, development, poverty, human rights, health and humanitarian issues
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32.Ontario Annual Greenhouse Gas Progress Report 2008/2009 (www.eco.on.ca)
The Ontario government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions does not have the tools necessary to meet its GHG emission targets. The government is projecting that it will fall short of its targets, even though the future reductions projected by the government are based on an assumption that all initiatives will be implemented 100 per cent successfully.
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33.City Limits + Connected Communities | Living Climate Change (livingclimatechange.com)
In “Sam and Dave Save the World,” the IDEO Chicago team elected to explore climate change through the constraints of a typical American city.
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34.Rush Limbaugh on an extended rant (www.cejournal.net)
Well, belief in God is a very personal thing, but I happen to believe in a loving God of creation — and I just intellectually cannot accept the fact that a loving God which has created all this beauty and has blessed this country
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35.Feel the heat: temperature records fall and fires burn in Australia (www.smh.com.au)
The mercury soared to 46.4 degrees at Tibooburra in the north-west of the state on Wednesday, breaking the previous November maximum of 46.1 degrees, set in Coonamble in 1944
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36.Floods batter UK, policeman dies, hundreds rescued; (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Britain's Met Office said a record 12.3 inches (314.4 millimeter) of rain fell in 24 hours in the area - the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the U.K.
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37.The Debates | Munk Debates (www.munkdebates.com)
C02 levels in the atmosphere are climbing steadily higher. Some believe this is having a devastating effect on humans and nature, while others argue that the threat has been overstated. Is this the moment for a bold international treaty to curb carbon emissions? Or, are the social and economic costs of reducing C02 emissions too high in world where a billion people live on a dollar or less a day?
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38.Climate Change in Ontario Maps (www.web2.mnr.gov.on.ca)
Some potential future climate projections for Ontario are presented on these maps of summer and winter temperature, and warm period precipitation change (April to September) and cold season precipitation change (October to March) for three time periods: 2011-2040, 2041-2070, and 2071-2100.
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39.Early snow storms in China kill 40, damage more than 9,000 buildings; $659 million in damage (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Chinese state media say some of the snow was induced through cloud seeding, although the precise amount of snowfall in all areas was not reported and it wasn't clear what the previous records were.
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40.CarbonCounted (www.carboncounted.com)
CarbonCounted is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organization. We enable business to calculate their carbon emissions with our leading web application and unique, standard-independent method.
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There are literally hundreds of carbon calculators (read MNN's Top 15 list) and most all of them have one thing in common... they are really, really boring.
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42.The Jewish Climate Challenge (www.rodeftzedek.org)
, The Jewish Climate Challenge is inspired by the age-old teachings of Jewish Tradition, which recognize that it is a mitzvah (a sacred obligation) to care for the earth and its creatures. The concepts of bal tashchit (do not destroy), ahavat habriot (love of all creatures), and tikkun olam (repair of the world), among others, requires that we do all that we can to minimize negative impact that human beings have on the environment.
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43.Canadian Institute of Planners Policy on Climate Change. (www.cip-icu.ca)
CIP understands that climate change is happening now and will affect all areas of the planning profession for the foreseeable future. As a part of the Institute's commitment to advocacy and the development of best practices, we are proud to present CIP's Policy on Climate Change
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44.Ministry of the Environment - Air - Climate Change (www.ene.gov.on.ca)
COMMUNITY GO GREEN FUND
Helping Individuals Reduce Greenhouse Gases
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45.Taking the heat - Climate change, life will be different in 2050 (www.thesudburystar.com)
Sudburians can expect hotter and wetter summers, milder winters with less snow, a growing season extended by about a month, more insects of all kinds -- mosquitoes bearing diseases and mountain pine beetles with an appetite for jack pines -- but also much, much, much more extreme weather.While 10 to 15% more rain will fall, even more evaporation will occur thanks to the hotter temperatures, so lake levels will sink, water will warm, blue-green algae will bloom, and the soil will dry causing more forest fires to flare up.
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46.Carbon Capture Report (www.carboncapturereport.org)
The Carbon Capture Report monitors news services from around the world to offer the latest news on carbon capture, carbon sequestration, and climate change, updated every 24 hours, 7 days a week.
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47.The Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming (globalwarming.house.gov)
The United States confronts this issue at the same time it faces a deepening energy crisis—characterized by skyrocketing prices, an increasing dependence on foreign oil, and continued reliance on high-carbon fuels that worsen the climate crisis.
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48.U. S. military eyes climate change (www.thesudburystar.com)
The security implications of global warming were centre stage Wednesday at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, one of a series of sessions in advance of voting on the climate bill, possibly as early as next week.
"Our economic, energy and climate change challenges are all inextricably linked," retired Vice Adm. Dennis McGinn told the committee. "If we don't address these challenges in a bold way and timely way, fragile governments have great potential to become failed states ... a virile breathing ground for extremism. -
49.Archives 2006: More ways to combat global warming needed: Pearson (www.northernlife.ca)
If you're a lake or brook trout, a lover of cool and oxygen rich water, Dr. David Pearson says your future is bleak.Pearson, a scientist with Laurentian Univeristy presented research data at the annual Living With Lakes forum Tuesday (Nov. 28) at Science North.Over 60 Sudbury residents, many who live on area lakes, were in attendance to listen to presentations on climate change, green building, and citizen involvement.
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50.Climate change at heart of event (www.thesudburystar.com)
Shortly after 10:20 a. m., Paul Sajotovic, general manager of the Nickel District Conservation Authority, and Bob Rogers, the agency's board chair, spoke to crowd telling them about the newly formed Sudbury Climate Change Consortium.The consortium, which was formed in April, has set its goal to transform the community.