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Ban was surprised by the state of the local glaciers and said the effects of the climate change were clear and he was worried about this.

Sometimes, they use the same location for generations to deposit their urine, making it a perfect test bed for research on climate change.

whether it was the cause of climate change or the fact of climate change, the size of the deficit or the culprits to blame for the deficit.

He said Mr. Berlusconi agreed with him on the way forward both in respect of Africa and climate change.

To be sure, this remains an ambitious objective, but we have yet to see a national response to climate change proportional to the risks.

And on climate change, at a minimum, China came out of Copenhagen looking like something of a bully.

Climate change cannot be solved in one country but has got to be solved by the world working together.

Despite their plan's gaps, Mr Rudd and Penny Wong, his climate-change minister, seem to have got the politics right, for now.

In other public opinion polls over the years, climate change has ranked near the bottom of the list of pressing problems.

He said the issue of climate change would be a priority for France.

A person's right to believe in anthropogenic climate change, and not be hounded out of his job because of it, is now enshrined in law.

Without global targets and standards, all this may not be enough to head off climate change.

The chief U. S. climate negotiator this week said the United States remains committed to the U. N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"When the ESA was passed, it was not contemplated it would be a tool to address the issue of climate change, " he said.

And yet, all this progress is under threat. From economic crisis. Rising joblessness and inequality. Climate change.

Climate change was chosen for the beta, given the urgency of the issue and the need for the Bank to be transparent about its work.

I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.

Like the President, Secretary Chu has demonstrated a deep commitment to tackling the interlinked problems of energy and climate change.

The Bank would be more capable of achieving this than the Committee on Climate Change being set up in Parliament.

Inevitably those who resist tackling climate change point to the global nature of emissions as a reason not to act.

While here, I said that the prospect of climate change presented both a great challenge and a great opportunity.

China is ready to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with all the East Asian countries on climate change.

He could try to save the planet from climate change - but Al Gore seems to have cornered that market.

Among the biggest achievements was the approval of a European Union plan to negotiate a future legal deal to combat climate change.

I am not trying to suggest that we should forget about climate change. It looks likely to put our children in a difficult situation.

Much of our political discourse, including the debate about climate-change policies, focuses around the question of "what's in it for me? "

A Brazilian environmental group is offering him a yearly cash payment to leave his forest standing to help combat climate change.

Climate change is the climate factor for several decades or longer period of time the long-term results of any systemic changes.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, has decided to make climate change one of the centre pieces of his tenure.

It is too early to tell if the recent decade marks the beginning of a longer term trend in plant growth related to long-term climate change.

Many of the US politicians most reluctant to act on climate change used to argue that there was no point doing so while China did little.

The country's leaders, they say, are beginning to appreciate how much of a threat climate change poses to China itself.

Some journalists, trying to be fair and balanced, report the views of climate change sceptics as a counterweight to climate change stories.

She said the cooperative relationship on clean energy and climate change will continue to grow.

The overall effect, however, was the spread of confusion among the public and an increase in doubt about climate change.

And the surprising thing was that the list was very similar -- with malnutrition and diseases at the top and climate change at the bottom.

Analysts said the decisions underlined the seriousness with which Beijing is treating the climate change debate.

Rules to help us address the big issues of our time: climate change, non-proliferation and a sustainable and open global economy.

And yet the e-mails will weaken the fight against climate change, while also helping to explain why skepticism seems to be on the rise.

Instead, she said the two countries should together come up with a plan to fight climate change.

"Climate change is no longer seen as a north-south issue, " he said.

An EU official said the comments did not apply to the world's poorest states, which will be most vulnerable to climate change.

Ban was alarmed by the state of the local glaciers and said the effects of climate change were clearly visible and of great concern.

She said China has taken its own measures to fight climate change and supports pressing ahead with international cooperation.

Celebration that it had seen the light on climate change turned to condemnation of its spoiling role at Copenhagen.

And to round the year off, the attempt to achieve a global climate-change agreement will fail at a mega-summit in Copenhagen.

Global warming or climate change is only a symptom of our deep-seated desire to consume, consume and consume.

"Unfortunately, the government's somewhat schizophrenic attitude to climate change seems to be undermining that confidence, " she said.

Prof Field said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report had underestimated the rate of change.

Obama may take a multilateral approach to climate change, a topic in which the European community is particularly interested, he said.

Clean technology to meet poor communities' needs must lie at the heart of any sustainable strategy to combat climate change.

But it does leave plenty of scope for argument about whether it is worth trying to do anything about climate change.

The Bali Breakfast builds on an initiative taken by Indonesia at the time of the U. N. meeting on Global Climate Change.

We need to reverse climate change, not to feel better about it as things get out of hand.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said consumers should begin with one meat-free day a week.

He said this could derail international efforts in terms of trying to limit potential climate change.

He sees this one as underlying all three of the things that make climate change a particularly pernicious sort of problem.

What is out of reach, as it was at Copenhagen, is agreement on a plausible programme for keeping climate change in check.

It also gives the world time to agree how much money should be given to help poor countries adapt to climate change and also cut emissions.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, has decided to make climate change one of the centrepieces of his tenure.

Nature, or at least climate change, seems to have it in for seals and their clobberers alike.

The period leading up to the domestication of cereals was one of erratic climate change, as the last ice age ended.

Home to most of the Himalayas, Nepal must be at the heart of any regional climate change initiative, says Murari Sharma.

Todd Stern, who leads the American climate change negotiating team, said he was pleased to see China and India sign on.

That would be worrying - if it weren't for the vastly greater peril of extreme climate change caused by burning all that carbon.

I remember just a few years ago speaking about climate change, and people heckling me in the back and saying it doesn't even exist.

She said Sunday that she still believes the two countries can find common ground on climate change.

The Mexican leader said the United States and Mexico must combine efforts to fight climate change and reduce carbon emissions.

He said he hoped Earth Hour provided a "very big visual message" to politicians that climate change must be addressed quickly.

He said the risks from climate change were more apparent in India.

You can't connect climate change to a natural disaster as simply as you can connect a napalm bomb, a running child and the war in Vietnam.

Climate change negotiators are trying to come up with a workable draft document to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

An ex-employee of a property firm said he was sacked for his ideas on climate change; the firm denied any such motive.

"The costs of a complete switch to renewables are a lot less than the costs to future generations that climate change will cause, " he said.

He would like to be remembered as a straight shooter who did the right thing. Tackling climate change would be one way to do that.

The matter has come to a head as governments around the world prepare for December's global climate change summit in Copenhagen.

"Imagine the weakness" of a climate change deal imposed on an unhappy minority, he said (rightly).

Even in a time of climate change, it's hard to be a nuclear booster.

The figure represents a possible opening for future climate-change negotiations, as China envisions some sort of global climate tax.

The world does not need to agree now on just how much money flows between countries as a result of climate change.

The global carbon budget that will lie at the heart of any future global deal on climate change is being used up a little more each day.

Dr. Holdren said he believes the U. S. is ready to take some difficult steps in response to climate change.

It simply means that the road to making reductions significant enough to affect the rate of climate change is much longer than expected.

And we are going to have to get used to it in the next few years because climate change is going to result in all sorts of disappearances.

Beijing played what many consider to have been a destructive role at the Copenhagen talks on climate change.

Even if it were possible to turn off all harmful greenhouse gas emissions today, he said climate change would continue.

But she says important steps were taken that, she believes, will ultimately result in an agreement to stop or retard climate change.

Some US lawmakers and a top Saudi official have said the emails undermine the science of climate change.

Park interpreters and rangers, she said, have the skills and experience to be extremely effective climate change communicators.

Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.

"Environmentalists have never been a well-mannered lot" , says Terry Tamminen, who has advised Arnold Schwarzenegger on climate change.

Allergic constitution of the external environment, climate change, easy to catch a cold, too sensitive causing pharyngitis.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi last November, the Stern report was the topic of the moment.

The outcome will not be known for months, but the political wind seems to be shifting in favour of firmer action to counter climate change.

It is almost as if climate change campaigners are relieved that the US has lived up to its let-the-planet-go-to-hell stereotype.

Other times, factors ranging from climate change to the resurgence of a prey population translate into sharks showing up in greater numbers.

He said that such a so-called "Tobin tax" could redistribute bank profits to help fight world poverty and climate change.

After years of denial and delay by its predecessor, the Obama administration is signaling that it's ready to take on climate change.

The sort of loss that climate change inflicts in a decade is often the sort of gain that better farming brings in a year.

Energy (alongside climate change) was promoted out of the business ministry to become a cabinet-level post in its own right.

As I noted at the start of these meetings, the drive to address climate change won't work if it's seen as a rich man's club.

Such a failure of imagination has been at the heart of the debate about climate change.

It is impossible to say, for example, how much the severity of any hurricane is due to climate change.

He says there is an over-emphasis on climate change as the only form of environmental degradation that poses challenges to the planet.

"We're at the point where timely reversal of climate change is unlikely, " he said, "so we need a strategy in terms of impact. "

Personally I cannot see it is proper to oppose poverty eradication against dealing with Climate Change, or at least put one above the other.

First it's global warming, then it's climate change, now it's probably tectonic instability - no doubt all caused by man, " he said. "

Obama said the U. S. will not try to curb climate change at the expense of economic growth.

The threat of climate change was no more worrying than any other.

But some Republican lawmakers noted that disagreement still exists about how much climate change could be natural.

The Post also reported that she's frequent travel companion with Soros and attended a UN summit on climate change with him.

That this was the time when we confronted climate change and secured the weapons that could destroy the human race.

For the mitigation side of the equation [trying to reduce climate change] the science has largely been done in developed countries.

The aggression of the warlord Musa Hilal can be traced to the fears of his father, and to how climate change shattered a way of life.

"Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat, " he said.

A quarter of a million children could die next year due to the effects of climate change, Save the Children warned today.

The meeting aims to influence the crucial United Nations climate change talks scheduled to take place in Copenhagen in December.

There's a lot of uncertainty about exactly how much climate change is too much.

Yet, how much damage and suffering must climate change cause before 'nature takes care of itself'?

Models of climate change do not take into account all potential variables, including the sun's influence. . . read more.

Temperature shift is not the only way climate change affects the oceans, but it is one of the most important, says Richardson.

So you would have a change that wasn't due to climate change; it was due to the fact that you'd lost one of your stations.

That's why cities and their growing populations will be a key part of the solution to climate change, she said.

Scientists modelling climate change have ignored cosmic rays up to now because there was not enough evidence about how they might work.

When people talk about climate change they know that China is going to be central to any solution to that global problem.

And the author might have hammered even harder on how the phenomenon is affecting our response to issues like climate change.

No-one was more critical than Bolivia, which earlier this year hosted its own 'social summit' on climate change.

And a big part of that is from burning coal, both the CO2 it releases that then causes climate change as well as all that fly ash.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, described it as "an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change" .

Conserving energy is just as important as generating more renewable energy in terms of preventing climate change.

Global leaders need to think about this lack of certainty as they gather in Copenhagen to discuss what to do about climate change.

Polyak is lead author of the paper and a preceding report that he and his coauthors prepared for the U. S. Climate Change Science Program.

But to understand exactly how climate change is affecting the polar regions, the thickness of the ice needs to be known too.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the latest honor for Gore in a year that began with Hollywood honoring his documentary on climate change.

"I think we can actually get an agreement on global climate change during my presidency, just so you know, " he said.

The Indian response is that of a complex social system and public forum in which nationalistic emotions over climate change are deep-set .

China's CO2 emissions nearly doubled in the last 6 years, at a time of rising concern about climate change around the world.

Studies indicate that farmers' perception of climate change does not always tally with national meteorological data.

Efforts to forestall climate change are slotted into the meandering narrative of a conspiracy against the American way of life.

Anticipated climate change has been a key element of the polar bear equation throughout the entire listing process, he says.

There was an "explosive cocktail" out there made up of economic hardship, degraded eco-systems and climate change.

Whether a Chinese peak after 2020 would be able to help constrain climate change within limits often regarded as "safe" is another question.

The latest example of such a paper, in press in WIREs Climate Change, reviews a number of studies that have been done since 2007.

Climate change is now opening up the Arctic for potential oil and gas exploration as the sea ice retreats.

Huhne, who will attend the second week of the talks, was more blunt: "No one expects a binding deal on climate change in Cancun. "

Climate change is only one of many factors that will determine future patterns of water availability and use.

Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told the meeting it was a neglected area worldwide.

Energy production is another area with a strong potential for reducing human impacts on climate change while protecting biodiversity.

Hence there must be a positive trade component to US policy on climate change, preferably through a new "Green Code" at the WTO.

He advised CGIAR scientists to put climate change at the heart of research programmes.

I get that it might be tempting to hitch this issue to climate change, which has so much political capital.

As it happens, the CIA has said the same thing and most Californians do worry about climate change.

Encouraging this trend further, at least in some places, may be a useful way of reducing the economy's exposure to climate change.

What's at stake in that fight, above all, is the question of whether we'll take action against climate change before it's utterly too late.

Conservationists are thinking similarly about climate change and freezing the cells of threatened animals as a sort of insurance policy.

THE final hours of the Bali conference on climate change might have been scripted in Hollywood.

A recurrent theme in her work is technological mediation in ecological systems with a particular focus on meteorology and climate change.

Payack said the top phrase of the decade was " climate change" followed by " financial tsunami" and "Ground Zero. "

Historically, warfare has been a way of redistributing resources in response to climate change.

The World Bank has predicted adjusting to the effects of climate change will cost up to $100 billion a year until 2050.

The gorillas - or "gardeners of the forest" as Redmond called them - were crucial to fighting climate change, he said.

These would be voluntary cuts and therefore unlikely to be part of a binding climate-change pact.

It is quite another, as White House officials have done in the past, to describe climate change as a liberal cause without merit.

However, leaders of countries on the sharp end of climate change did not share Miliband's optimism.

These added demands will come at a time when all countries are stressed, to a greater or lesser degree, by the effects of climate change.

"Other agents, such as predators, diseases and fungal pathogens, might be affected differently by climate change, " he said.

The world's commitment to its accord on climate change expires in a year.

Lawson and Peiser said they did not think the release of the emails questioned the underlying science of climate change.

She said China has taken its own measures toflightfight climate change and supportspricingpressing ahead with international cooperation.

For a long time the US government refused to see a link between climate change and threat to polar bears.

But the UN's Copenhagen climate change conference has proved that the US is no longer the only show in town.

I was once with an indigenous community trying to explain the dangers of climate change.

Burgeoning populations, which put further strain on the environment, and climate change are accelerating the trend, he said.

The White House says climate change and global warming has been a top-priority issue throughout President Bush's time in office.

Finding the right institution to fight climate change is going to be a matter of trial and error.

This program revolves around the scientific study of the prediction of atmospheric motion and climate change.

First, 2007 was a year in which a U. S. state rejected a permit for a coal-fired power plant based on climate change.

He wants to tackle climate change, but has not yet begun to explain to voters that this will raise their energy bills.

andrew simms , the foundation ' s head of climate change , said countries with a strong market - led economic model fared least well.

If international leaders were as united as the scientific community on climate change, warming might be a thing of the past.

Tensions have run high over the nation's trade imbalance and China's currency, as well as the push for a global climate-change agreement.

The climate-change message from what is going on this summer, he says, is not to do with the blocking itself, but its consequences.

Adaptation to climate change used to be seen as a distraction from the business of cutting carbon emissions.

Low-lying deltas are home to half the world's population and much of its wealth, but they are also on the front lines of climate change.

But there are at least two reasons to take sanguine assessments of the consequences of climate change with a grain of salt.

Scientists studying bears around the Beaufort sea, north of Alaska, claim this endurance feat could be a result of climate change.

Officials even joke that once climate change has run its course, people may start pouring into Siberia instead of trying to escape it.

In truth, climate change is as much a political problem as it is a scientific one, and no one would argue that science is free of bias.

Others are equally evangelical in their assertions that the sun plays only a minuscule role in climate change.

Fossil fuels, which (for the time being at least) are nuclear energy's principal rival, carry the risk of catastrophic climate change.

Nwanze said many people around the world are no longer able to cope with recurring droughts and floods, which he blames on climate change.

Energy was an issue of significant global concern in 2005 in light of climate change fears and the high cost of oil.

Families are to be encouraged to switch away from red meat and eat a vegetable-based diet to help combat climate change.

It is difficult because climate change and its responses reach right into the heart of nations, into our economies and our societies.

More than one-third of consumers we surveyed say they would like to take action against climate change but do not know what to do.

Washington should redouble efforts to work with a number of countries on an enforceable climate change treaty.

Climate change, poverty, disease, terrorism -- each issue on its own is enough to consume all of our time.

He blamed the warmer seas on climate change and said the reef could face "an even more severe event" in the future.

It could cost the poorest nations hundreds of billions of dollars a year to curb their emissions and adapt to inevitable climate change.

ANTI-CAPITALISTS are billing it as "Financial Fools' Day" and climate-change worriers are gearing up to protest against "fossil fools" .

As one-day summits go, the UN climate change meeting in New York packed a punch, with China really beginning to step up its game.

When making these climate change games for the public, I had to think from several different angles during the creative process.

A further seven percent did not believe climate change was happening at all.

One example of this approach took place in 2009 during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

And I know, in the light of human suffering and poverty and even climate change, one would wonder, why worry about a few cats?

women are on the front lines of climate change impact and need to be part of creating solutions.

"Rich nations must agree a properly funded cash package to meet the costs of tackling climate change, " he said.

The government has handed control of interest rates to the Bank of England and climate-change targets to a committee of experts.

The most significant bit of the convention is the recognition accorded to climate-change migrants.

Two years of tense negotiations on climate change are coming to an end next week in Copenhagen.

About three-quarters of the world's fossil-fuel reserves must be left unused if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, scientists warn.

I first approached Murray to ask him about the climate change impact of a cappuccino.

Climate change could indeed cause woes aplenty. That is all the more reason to be precise about them.

'It's a Plan D, ' he said. 'It's essentially an insurance policy for the situation where we hit a tipping point in climate change quickly. '

With climate change you do not need to invent things; the truth, even with all those uncertainties and caveats, is scary enough.

Mr Abbott, his party's third leader in two years, says he is not frightened of a climate-change election.

For instance, global and regional climate change and natural variability can influence weather, he said.

There is no solution to the question of climate change without forestry.

There was no breakthrough at the summit on another lead item on the agenda: climate change.

It's a powerful argument, but it highlights a paradox at the heart of the debate on climate-change adaptation.

Even if the 4º C rise this century that the Met Office predicts does not come to pass, climate change is still going to be awkward.

Earth Hour is a fabulous opportunity for you and your family to do something about climate change.

But critics say that "clean coal" is a pipe dream, an oxymoron in terms of the carbon emissions that count most toward climate change.

New figures show we are still hurtling towards dangerous climate change - at a time when policymakers are running out of ideas.

With that thought in mind, and the coming climate change, what cities are most likely to be abandoned and raising questions?

Although this is all very understandable, our collective contribution to climate change through the way we travel is astronomical.

In the years since we all woke up to the fact that climate change is a danger, very little has changed.

Otherwise the world will not be able to minimize global emissions or adapt to the ever-increasing damages associated with climate change.

Ocean acidification is often called the twin of climate change.

The Bank Group is working with other development partners to mobilize financing for climate change adaptation.

They underscored that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Taoist masters from all over China gathered near the ancient capital of Nanjing to agree on a seven-year plan for climate change action.

MOSQUITOES, which carry malaria parasites, like the warm and wet conditions that are expected to become more common with climate change.

If this generation does not tackle climate change, its descendants will not think much of it.

A teacher at my school has told me that he doesn't believe in climate change because he believes that nature will take care of itself.

The White House convened a conference aimed at reaching agreement on climate change by the end of this year.

Ban Ki-moon hailed the dawn of a "green economy" in Bali last week, presenting climate change as a business opportunity as well as a threat.

And you think of something that you often argue, climate change or something like that or I don't know.

But on the whole, government intervention is only likely to raise the cost of mitigating climate change.

The conference did not produce any immediate promises to further cut emissions blamed for climate change.

As the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emerged in 2007, it was not able to include this data.

If ours were a preindustrial, primarily agricultural society, extreme climate change would be obviously catastrophic.

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"Talking about a very direct threat to those places brings up something very emotional related to climate change, " she said.

He said Shanghai and Hangzhou might well become the new "ovens" due to the climate change.

They will increase conflict between the Commission, which sees combating climate change as its main aim at the moment, and member states.

Find out about local groups that are committed to combating climate change . Stay informed , get involved , and spread the word .

For the fourth year, people are being urged to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the issue of climate change.

TACKLING climate change will cost consumers the earth. Those who campaign for a green revolution are out to destroy our western lifestyles.

You know the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U. N. organization. . .