Issuing a Bold Challenge to the U.S. Over Climate
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Kevin Conrad has become famous as the Papuan who told the U.S. to either lead or get out of the way at the Bali climate talks.
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Britain, arguing that climate change is now unstoppable, urged the United States on Tuesday to sign up to life-saving cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as environmentalists warned of approaching Armageddon.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - The United States, realizing  it cannot defeat global threats like terrorism alone, must  cooperate to fight other planetary challenges like climate  change, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday.
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Amid fanfare marking the enactment of the Kyoto global warming pact, leading proponents laid out their next goals Wednesday: persuading the United States to join the world crackdown on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases and planning further steps when the current agreement runs out in 2012.
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Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened Thursday to overshadow a summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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A breakthrough on the climate change deadlock is being sought at a meeting between US politicians and international legislators.
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The US defends its decision not to sign up to the Kyoto climate change treaty with an attack on Europe's record.
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Both leading Democrat and Republican candidates vie to show they can tackle global warming.
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As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top of the world.
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As President Bush resisted mandatory limits on carbon emissions at a G-8 summit in Germany yesterday, several U.S. religious leaders urged Congress to speedily enact such limits to avoid a catastrophic rise in global temperatures that would particularly hurt the poor.
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It is a favored tactic in the Bush White House to take on tough criticism by boldly asserting the opposite. Keeping clean air regulations from forcing further cuts in emissions is labeled a &quot;clear skies&quot; initiative.
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In response to growing concerns over the planet's future, scientists are proposing some radical ideas to combat global warming.
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It is redoubling efforts to promote its product as a climate-friendly alternative to fossil fuels.
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Green lobbyists and several U.S.  cities hope a lawsuit against U.S. development agencies will  force the government to act on global warming, even though  President Bush has long insisted there's no scientific proof  linking human activity to warming.
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A House committee chairman is trying to show his Democratic colleagues that people in the U.S. are not ready to pay the full costs of fixing global warming.
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more
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Arctic indigenous people urge the US to cut gas emissions to slow down  the thaw of the polar ice.