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Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds per second

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely that global warming can be limited to a couple degrees,...

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CO2 levels pass feared milestone

In what climate scientists are calling a moment that "symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” carbon dioxide levels have reportedly reached a long-feared milestone....

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Study: climate change risks a third of animals

According to a new report in the journal Nature Climate Change, flagged by Reuters, more than half of all plants, a third of animals are at risk to due to destruction of habitats as the climate...

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Extreme weather and climate change may be in a “vicious cycle”

Devastating in isolation, each new extreme weather event -- China's unrelenting heat wave, the drought that's sucking New Mexico dry, the increase in California wildfires -- can be understood as part...

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A rational explanation for the apparent “pause” in global warming

Even as we've been pouring more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, global surface temperatures over the past 15 years have been rising at a slower rate than expected. Climate change deniers...

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Scientists are as certain that global warming is real as they are that...

"Uncertainty," as a scientific concept, can be baffling to the layman. But the climate researchers gathering this week in Stockholm to finalize U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

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Technology is moving too slowly for climate-change target

The IPCC says we can emit a trillion tons of carbon and still avoid major warming. We’ll emit much more.One of the key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released...

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The decline of coal: U.S. carbon emissions are the lowest they’ve been in 19...

The United States' CO2 emissions are on the decline, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Monday afternoon. Energy-related emissions were down 3.8 percent in 2012, the lowest they've...

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FIFA: 2014 World Cup will have an enormous carbon footprint

There's only one way to hold an international soccer tournament, and it involves a lot of flying. But the 2014 World Cup is going to be a particularly carbon-heavy event. According to estimates...

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China makes big fracking gamble to avoid climate catastrophe

A fuel to slow climate change lies 3,000 meters below a new wellhead in China’s Sichuan Province. There, shale gas production has begun, and it just might help wean China off the coal that has made it...

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CO2 levels pass feared milestone

In what climate scientists are calling a moment that "symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” carbon dioxide levels have reportedly reached a long-feared milestone....

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Study: climate change risks a third of animals

According to a new report in the journal Nature Climate Change, flagged by Reuters, more than half of all plants, a third of animals are at risk to due to destruction of habitats as the climate...

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Extreme weather and climate change may be in a “vicious cycle”

Devastating in isolation, each new extreme weather event -- China's unrelenting heat wave, the drought that's sucking New Mexico dry, the increase in California wildfires -- can be understood as part...

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Image may be NSFW.
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A rational explanation for the apparent “pause” in global warming

Even as we've been pouring more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, global surface temperatures over the past 15 years have been rising at a slower rate than expected. Climate change deniers...

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Scientists are as certain that global warming is real as they are that...

"Uncertainty," as a scientific concept, can be baffling to the layman. But the climate researchers gathering this week in Stockholm to finalize U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

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Technology is moving too slowly for climate-change target

The IPCC says we can emit a trillion tons of carbon and still avoid major warming. We’ll emit much more.One of the key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released...

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The decline of coal: U.S. carbon emissions are the lowest they’ve been in 19...

The United States' CO2 emissions are on the decline, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Monday afternoon. Energy-related emissions were down 3.8 percent in 2012, the lowest they've...

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FIFA: 2014 World Cup will have an enormous carbon footprint

There's only one way to hold an international soccer tournament, and it involves a lot of flying. But the 2014 World Cup is going to be a particularly carbon-heavy event. According to estimates...

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China makes big fracking gamble to avoid climate catastrophe

A fuel to slow climate change lies 3,000 meters below a new wellhead in China’s Sichuan Province. There, shale gas production has begun, and it just might help wean China off the coal that has made it...

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Utah legislator: We should double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere

You've got to admire someone who's so committed to the cause, they're willing to not just deny that humankind is having any negative effect on the climate, but to argue that pumping CO2 into the...

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