Climate Changes Already Affecting the West, Experts Tell Senate
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WASHINGTON _ With snowfall diminishing at "statistically significant" rates, spring runoff coming earlier and a dead zone the size of Rhode Island in the ocean off the Oregon coast, senators were told Wednesday that global climate change is already being felt in the West.
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Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.
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A  Bush administration report suggests that evidence of global warming has begun to affect animal and plant populations in visible ways, and that rising temperatures in North America are due in part to human activity.
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Climate scientists are predicting the effects of global warming on the nation's most geographically diverse state, and they say the landscape of California could be drastically different by the end of this century, if not sooner.
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NEW YORK, 19 September 2004 - With a successive series of hurricanes ravaging the Caribbean and the southeast United States, US lawmakers and environmentalists met this week to examine if these climate changes are due, in part, to greenhouse-gas
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A bill to crank up penalties for the nation's most polluted air regions &#151; both in California &#151; was introduced Thursday in the Senate by Congress' biggest skeptic of global warming.
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The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has targeted President Bush's handling of climate change.
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WASHINGTON - The US West, already suffering from a long drought, could be in for worse if past patterns hold up, experts said in the latest issue of the journal Science.
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Recent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate change are coming faster than anyone had feared, climate experts said on Thursday.
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The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.
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Scientists who seek an alternative to the fossil-fuel theory got a Senate hearing this week.
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The European Environment Agency reported global climate change, including frequent floods, droughts and heat waves, are severe and will continue to worsen.
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By Bart Jansen Washington D.C. correspondent  Congressional debate on climate change is heating up like the proverbial frog in boiling water. But whether the agitation will lead to action or just allow lawmakers to blow off steam is an open question.
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An international panel of climate scientists said yesterday that there is an overwhelming probability that human activities are warming the planet at a dangerous rate, with consequences that could soon take decades or centuries to reverse.
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A Republican senator finds hundreds of scientists and studies questioning the consensus over dangerous global warming. Does it matter?.
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Influential senators from both parties will unveil a new global warming proposal that could form the basis of a climate change compromise that has eluded Congress.
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A U.S. scientist says climate change is producing increasing drought conditions but the nation is doing little to prepare for potential catastrophe.