Mayors gather in Alaska to talk warming
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Mayors from 32 U.S cities were urged Saturday to be leaders in slowing global warming by taking steps in their communities.
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During a secret meeting to discuss what prosecutors say was a dirty deal to keep Alaska oil taxes low, two oil contractors said they had a powerful ally coming to town who could help build support for the plan: Sen. Ted Stevens.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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BUENOS AIRES  - Participants at a UN climate change conference agreed to hold informal international talks in Bonn in May on future efforts to fight global warming.
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Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is attending the Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Iceland on 24 November. The most important item on the agenda is a discussion of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
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Delegates from the nations that emit the most pollutants worked Thursday to advance discussions on how the world can combat global climate change.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 6 -- As thousands of protesters clashed with police nearby, President Bush and leaders of other industrial nations traded markedly opposing views here Wednesday on how to combat global warming.
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A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop it.
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Leaders from the world's major industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.
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On Thursday, as news was leaking out that Russia was likely to ratify the Kyoto global warming treaty, a group of US business executives was discussing climate policy as they lunched on chicken and avocado sandwiches in Washington&#39;s St.
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The United States and the seven other countries with Arctic territory today expressed concern about profound changes in the Arctic climate and said they would consider new scientific findings
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By Larry Sandler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 21--Milwaukee would join hundreds of other local governments in a pair of environmental initiatives aimed at slowing global warming, under a measure backed Wednesday by a Common Council committee.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin held oceanside talks on Monday to try to ease tensions that have taken their countries' relations to a post-Cold War low.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Vice President Al Gore are set to join world leaders for a U.N. meeting on Monday aimed at spurring global negotiations on how to cool a warming planet.
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The International Whaling Commission holds its annual talks in Alaska next week amid pressure to end an impasse over commercial and scientific whaling threatening the conservation of the gentle giants.
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The governors of Virginia and Maryland today urged a U.S. Senate panel to begin reducing the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions, during a hearing that described climate change's creeping impact on the Chesapeake Bay.