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1. Explained: Radiative forcing
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This is the first of a two-part “Explained” on the scientific concepts underlying the concept of the greenhouse effect and global climate change. When people talk about global warming or the greenhouse ...

2. Confidence in Scientists Dropping as Result of "Climategate"
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...  It came after two major public relations setbacks for the global warming gurus. ...

3. China and India endorse Copenhagen Climate Accord
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...  The accord plans $100 billion a year in climate aid for developing nations from 2020 and seeks to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) ...

4. New Report Offers Little Hope for International Climate Agreement
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... says that the United States and Europe should "accept reality" and take immediate practical steps to deal with global warming. ...

5. World's top scientists to review climate panel (AP)
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... Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel.  ...

6. Independent body to review controversial climate panel (AFP)
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AFP - A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.  ...

7. Outside science academies to review warming panel (AP)
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AP - The beleaguered global warming panel has found an outside group to review how it writes its reports. ...

8. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

9. Climate scientists quizzed by British lawmakers (AP)
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AP - Academics at a British climate research center at the center of a controversy about the science of global warming defended their work during cross-examination at Parliament on Monday, rejecting allegations ...

10. British scientist in climate row admits 'awful' emails (AFP)
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11. Global Warming Kicks Up Allergy Storm (HealthDay)
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HealthDay - MONDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- The rise in temperatures associated with climate change might have an unexpected consequence: more allergies among more people.

12. House members seek to block EPA carbon limits
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... way to overturn Environmental Protection Agency proposals to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming. ...

13. Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review (AP)
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AP - The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports. ...

14. China has "No intention" of capping emissions
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... global warming. China "could not and should not" set an upper limit on greenhouse gas emissions at the current phase, said Su Wei, the chief negotiator of China for climate change ...

15. Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review (AP)
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AP - The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports. ...

16. Coffee hit by global warming say growers (AFP)
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AFP - Coffee producers say they are getting hammered by global warming, with higher temperatures forcing growers to move to prized higher ground, putting the cash crop at risk.  ...

17. End to bickering urged to achieve new climate pact (AP)
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... to fight global warming.  ...

18. UN to review controversial climate panel (AFP)
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AFP - The United Nations said Friday it would conduct an independent review of its Nobel prize-winning climate panel, whose credibility has been hit by errors in a key report on global warming.  ...

19. Oceans are new front in fight against global warming: UN (AFP)
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AFP - UN environmental experts Thursday issued an urgent call to study the crucial role the oceans -- as massive carbon stores -- can play in the fight against global warming.  ...

20. Can Underwater Parks Protect Coral?
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With global threats like ocean warming and acidification, it's a tough time to be a coral. Marine ecologists John Bruno and Elizabeth Selig analyzed over 8,000 coral surveys from all over the world to ...

21. Ancient hurricanes
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A question central to research on global warming is how warmer temperatures caused by increased greenhouse gases could influence climate. Probing the past for clues about this potential effect, MIT and ...

22. UN warns greenhouse gas cuts 'not enough' to curb warming (AFP)
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AFP - Countries will have to make far greater cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if the world is to limit the rise in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius or less, the UN has warned.  ...

23. UN climate talks to resume in April in Germany (AP)
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AP - The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen.  ...

24. Tropical storms to be more intense but less frequent: climate study (AFP)
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AFP - Tropical cyclones may become less frequent this century but pack a stronger punch as a result of global warming, a paper published on Sunday said.  ...

25. Number of storms may drop, but more could be intense, study says (The Christian Science Monitor)
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The Christian Science Monitor - The number of hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical storms globally is likely to either fall or remain flat over the course of the 21st century. But an increasing proportion ...

26. Study: Warming to bring stronger hurricanes (AP)
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AP - Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say ...

27. Senate weighs final push to move climate bill (Reuters)
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Reuters - A last-ditch attempt at passing a climate change bill begins in the Senate this week with senators mindful that time is running short and that approaches to the legislation still vary widely, ...

28. Geo-engineering: the planet's savior or untested danger? (AFP)
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... slow global warming.  ...

29. Calif. college instructor defends course content (AP)
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AP - A California instructor disputes student claims that he presented his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming in class as fact. ...

30. Obama rebukes climate skeptics (AFP)
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AFP - US President Barack Obama on Friday rebuked climate change skeptics who argue that piles of snow dumped on the United States during a frigid winter cast doubt on global warming science.  ...