CLIMATE CHANGE:   'A Period of Uncertainty Has Ended'
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BONN, Feb 11 (IPS) - The coming into force of Kyoto Protocol Feb. 16 may  not be enough to combat global warming but it closes  ''a period of uncertainty'', says Joke  Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary of the United Nations  Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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The UK is developing a strategy to adapt to climate change, not just to try to avert it.
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A five-day U.N. conference on climate change ended Friday in Vienna, Austria, with significant disagreements remaining about how countries should reduce greenhouse gas emissions and daunting estimates about the ... via Buffalo News
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Scientists say there has been a worrying drop in the amount of CO2 soaked up by the world's oceans.
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The Christian Science Monitor - In a tumultuous, overtime finale that capped two weeks of intense talks, ministers from more than 180 countries headed home this weekend with a framework for negotiating a new global-warming agreement by 2009.
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LONDON, Oct 12 (IPS) - New fears have arisen over global warming after   some measurements pointed to an unusual rise in carbon dioxide  levels  over the past two years.
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A comparison of the climate debate in 1992 and now shows few differences.
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PARIS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Environmental and scientific experts agree that  degradation of biological diversity has reached historical  dimensions, but a North-South divide is emerging over action to  counter this crisis.
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Scientists have found that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that most of it could be gone by the end of the century. Low-lying lands could be flooded and polar bears could go extinct, among other possibilities.
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As the UN climate change talks conclude in Buenos Aires, debate has been gathering pace on two main issues: what happens after Kyoto and how to help developing countries best cope with global warming.
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to get talks rolling for after 2012, when the Kyoto protocol to cut greenhouse gases runs out. protocol last month, allowing the treaty to take effect in February with a seven-year delay.
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The United Nations Conference on Climate Change has ground to a close in Argentina a day later than expected, with the parties at odds over the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Earth's climate is out of balance and warming as a result of human activities, a leading science body warns.
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Climate scientists agree there have  been a lot of strong hurricanes lately. They agree that warmer  seas have given these storms some extra punch. But they  disagree how much global warming is to blame.
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Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press.
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Many climate systems will undergo a series of sudden shifts this century as a result of human-induced climate change.
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Major shifts in the British marine environment are being partially driven by climate change, according to a new report.