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Climate wars.
Experts fear the possibility of a total breakdown in society as climate change takes hold.
Sydney Morning Herald.
15 April 2007
For the environment, rallies great and small (and unusual attire).
Hundreds of people formed a human shoreline at the rim of Lower Manhattan, warning of the dangers of rising sea levels from global warming as part of a national day of demonstrations.
New York Times.
15 April 2007
Paying to absolve the sin of emissions.
A new green fever is sweeping the nation, much of it fueled by worry over global warming. Tens of thousands of people are using Internet calculators to determine their "carbon footprint" and then paying to "offset" that damage.
San Francisco Chronicle.
15 April 2007
Court rulings on environment go against Bush administration.
A string of federal court rulings in recent weeks has gone against Bush administration environmental policies.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Global warming called security threat.
Private consultants to the government are warning that human-driven warming of the climate poses risks to the national security of the United States.
New York Times.
15 April 2007
Interior reviewed studies weighing risks to polar bear.
Interior Department officials--who for months said that they did not analyze how human activities were affecting Arctic warming and endangering polar bears--completed a review on this very subject.
Washington Post.
15 April 2007
Military sharpens focus on climate change.
The U.S. military is increasingly focused on a potential national security threat: climate change.
Washington Post.
15 April 2007
Blair and Merkel lean on Bush to join battle against climate change.
President George Bush is coming under unprecedented pressure from Tony Blair and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to agree to tough new international measures to stop global warming accelerating out of control.
London Independent.
15 April 2007
Who's cool in the great celebrity green rush?
Global warming has truly arrived in the heartland of cool. If further proof were needed, it's to be found in the May issue of Vanity Fair, the second to be devoted to green concerns in a year.
London Independent.
15 April 2007
Southland pitches in to combat global warming.
From picking up litter in the Angeles National Forest to petition-signing in Ventura, Southern Californians joined in a nationwide effort Saturday to push Congress to take immediate action on global warming.
Los Angeles Times.
15 April 2007
Edwards rallies 350 to energy, clean air causes.
John Edwards appeared as featured speaker at the Fort Myers, Florida Step it Up 2007 rally to press Congress into passing regulations to cut carbon emissions like car exhaust by 80 percent by 2050.
Fort Myers News-Press.
15 April 2007
U.S. protests step up global warming alert.
Americans worried about climate change gathered yesterday on ski slopes and in cities for a countrywide day of demonstrations aimed at drawing attention to global warming.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Rally highlights global warming dangers.
Endangered whale skeletons formed the backdrop for a global warming rally at the New Bedford Whaling Museum yesterday, reminding participants that energy demands of the past, present and future are linked with the fate of the Earth and its creatures.
New Bedford Standard-Times.
15 April 2007
Local residents urge action on carbon emissions.
Concerned Brownsville, Texas residents helped kick-off a national awareness campaign on Saturday urging Congress to cut carbon emission by at much as 80 percent by 2050.
Brownsville Herald.
15 April 2007
'Step It Up' comes to campus.
Despite temperatures that belied the issue at hand, more than 200 people and a gaggle of green-speaking politicos turned out for the Step it Up rally on the University of Michigan campus Saturday.
Saginaw News.
15 April 2007
Global warming activists continue their rallying cry today.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on and off campus in Princeton, New Jersey yesterday in an effort to spread the word about global warming.
Trenton Trentonian.
15 April 2007
Activists for climate change.
Parents holding babies in their arms, graying activists, biking enthusiasts, organic gardeners - as many as 200 people gathered at the Morse Farm in Montpelier, Vermont on Saturday to march to the Statehouse for the Step it Up event.
Rutland Herald.
15 April 2007
Global ambitions, local rally.
A rally for the environment in Bushnell Park in Hartford was part of the first National Day of Climate Action, as called by the organization Step It Up.
Hartford Courant.
15 April 2007
Thinking globally, but acting locally.
This is the message some 75 people hoped to get to Congress as they had their photo taken at noon Saturday on the lawn of the old Kane County courthouse in Geneva, Illinois.
Chicago Daily Herald.
15 April 2007
Global warming decried at rally.
Due to snowy weather, hundreds of people gathered Saturday inside the Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri for the Step it Up rally which had been planned for Southmoreland Park.
Kansas City Star.
15 April 2007
Church event calls for sign-wavers.
The need to draw attention to the threat of global warming was enough to prompt one grown-up, literate adult to stand on a busy street corner for three hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon waving a handmade sign at the thousands of passing vehicles.
Oakland Tribune.
15 April 2007
Bay Area residents 'step it up' for nationwide protest.
Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben created an event that drew far more participants than a march in the U.S. capital likely would.
Oakland Tribune.
15 April 2007
Eco-rally turns heavenward.
Combining elements of a Sunday service and a political rally, Denver-area congregations gathered to call on Congress to reduce carbon emissions and fight global warming.
Denver Post.
15 April 2007
Global warming rally urges action.
Louisville was one of more than 1,420 sites across the country that held a Step It Up 2007 event. The national campaign's message: "Step it up, Congress! Cut Carbon 80 percent by 2050."
Louisville Courier-Journal.
15 April 2007
Young, old urge action on global warming.
From Maine to Boston, hundreds rally on dangers of climate change during the Step it Up event on Saturday.
Boston Globe.
15 April 2007
Volunteers fight global warming.
Young volunteers spread out through Ridgefield Park, planting more than 35 trees of six different varieties. They joined thousands of other activists nationwide in an effort known as Step It Up 2007, a grass-roots campaign to raise awareness of global warming
Bergen County Record.
15 April 2007
Hundreds of climate rallies planned.
A group of Middlebury College students looking to draw attention to global warming have sparked a national day of action beyond their wildest expectations: 1,350 actions planned Saturday across all 50 states.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Rally for the Earth: Missoula's Step It Up demonstration urges action against global warming.
Missoula was one of more than 1,300 communities across the nation to participate in the Step It Up campaign, which aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
Missoula Missoulian.
15 April 2007
Rallies call for efforts to curtail global warming.
Despite bad weather, about 200 people came to hear speakers talk about the dangers of global warming at the "Step it Up Marin" event in California.
Marin Independent Journal.
15 April 2007
Utahns 'Step It Up' for climate change.
An estimated 3,500 people visited Washington Square in Utah on Saturday to be entertained, educated and counted among those demanding that Congress cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
Salt Lake Deseret Morning News.
15 April 2007
Experts report on ways to help cool global warming.
People from both ends of Ventura County joined a nationwide campaign called Step It Up 2007 at two major events Saturday designed to raise awareness about global warming.
Ventura County Star.
15 April 2007
Baldacci pledges carbon cuts during rally.
Gov. John Baldacci on Saturday pledged to do his part in cutting carbon dioxide emissions in Maine.
Kennebec Journal.
15 April 2007
Global warming demonstrators gather in cities.
Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Chicago on Saturday as part of a nationwide day of demonstrations by Americans concerned about climate change.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Steppin' up Locals join battle to end global warming.
Efforts to make Greenwich more environmentally friendly include proposals to create more "green," or energy-efficient, buildings and ensuring that town cars are emitting as little toxic fumes into the atmosphere as possible.
Greenwich Time.
15 April 2007
Local marchers join national effort urging Congress to fight global warming.
When more than 200 people clad in green T-shirts marched yesterday across Bear Mountain Bridge in New York, the signs they held high above their heads shouted an urgent message to Washington, D.C.
Middletown Times Herald-Record.
15 April 2007
Rally calls on Congress to cut carbon emissions.
Saturday's rainfall couldn't stop dozens of Williamsburg community members from rallying to support the Step it Up 2007 campaign on the National Day of Climate Action.
Hampton Roads Daily Press.
15 April 2007
Local activists Step it Up.
As part of the Step it Up 2007 campaign, an effort to encourage Congress to take global warming seriously, Step it Up Frederick brought about 100 people to the amphitheater on Carroll Creek in Maryland.
Frederick News-Post.
15 April 2007
G7 gives nuclear energy a nod.
Finance chiefs from the G7 industrialised countries have endorsed nuclear energy, an increasingly attractive power source as governments confront global warming and over-dependence on fossil fuels.
Agence France-Presse.
15 April 2007
£67m Eden project will show the perils of a warmer world.
Plans for Britain's first tourist attraction dedicated to climate change and how humans will live with increasing temperatures will be unveiled this week at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
London Observer.
15 April 2007
US professor helping India deal with global warming.
Growing concern over the potential impact of global warming has spurred international action with a team led by a US professor developing an environmental observation system for India.
Indo-Asian News Service.
15 April 2007
India's challenge.
With all of the problems currently being faced in India - including global warming and stress on global resources – what happens here will have a profound effect globally.
Toronto Star.
15 April 2007
NZ parties offer own climate change solutions.
New Zealand politicians are showing a rare united front in accepting that the hot issue of climate change needs the country's urgent attention.
Aukland New Zealand Herald.
15 April 2007
Gas burial could be a solution for pollution.
To reduce global-warming-causing carbon dioxide emissions, some scientists say the way to do that is to go underground, to bottle up the carbon in subterranean cracks and crevices.
Aukland New Zealand Herald.
15 April 2007
Premiers push PM for action on climate.
Prime Minister John Howard yesterday accepted there was a case for imposing a price on carbon dioxide emissions, but would not lock Australia into economically damaging targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
Sydney Morning Herald.
15 April 2007
From Canada's north, a ground-level view of global warming.
As scientists work to establish the impact of global warming, explorers and hunters slogging across northern Canada and the Arctic ice cap on sled and foot are describing the realities they see on the ground.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Herseth urges balanced approach to global warming.
The nation's response to global warming should include a mix of economic incentives and reasonable requirements that treat all economic sectors fairly, Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D., said Friday.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Nationwide, a clamor over global warming.
At more than 1,400 events yesterday, in each of the 50 states, events urging Congress to action against climate change took place, honoring the National Day of Climate Action.
Washington Post.
15 April 2007
Times reporter 'warms' to complex subject.
The American media's love of a good dust-up and its impatience with uncertainty when it comes to science, has slowed down Americans' understanding of climate change.
Middletown Times Herald-Record.
15 April 2007
Iowa House panel kills renewable energy mandate.
Environmentalists had hoped that if a new coal-fired power plant were built in Iowa it would at least be required to get some of its energy from renewable sources.
Sioux City Journal.
15 April 2007
Edwards proposes greenhouse gas plan.
America should charge industry for creating greenhouse gases to generate money for investing in clean technology.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Adirondack skiers join national global warming protest.
While other demonstrators in more than 1,400 spots around the U.S. denounced global warming Saturday, a dozen people skied up Whiteface Mountain to unfurl their protest banner in mid-April snow.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Global warming activists rally around US.
The Step It Up campaign has organized more than 1,400 events in all 50 states, all with the aim of urging the U.S. Congress to cut heat-trapping carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050.
Reuters.
15 April 2007
Global warming a security risk.
Global warming poses a "serious threat to America's national security" with terrorism worsening and the U.S. will likely be dragged into fights over water and other shortages.
Associated Press.
15 April 2007
Conservationist to speak in Triad.
Richard Leakey, the famed fossil hunter and wildlife preservationist, will speak Wednesday at a conference in Greensboro, NC that will focus on alternative fuels and new transportation technology to combat air pollution linked to global warming.
Greensboro News & Record.
15 April 2007
Can we change our lives to save the planet?
Individual households account for about one-fifth of the nation's greenhouse-gas emissions.
Seattle Times.
15 April 2007
Crist sees parallel with Schwarzenegger.
They're both Republicans, they're both tanned and they both promote physical fitness. But there also are other striking similarities between Gov. Charlie Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on environmental issues.
Tallahassee Democrat.
15 April 2007
How green is our valley?
The concern over global warming has not gone unnoticed in the mid-valley. Governments, institutions and private developers in the region are taking steps to conserve energy, from recycling to using energy-saving lights to exploring biodiesel-fueled vehicles.
Corvallis Gazette-Times.
15 April 2007
A new tree line.
A newly published study has found, rather counter-intuitively, that removing all of the world's trees might actually cool the planet down. Conversely, adding trees everywhere might warm it up.
Economist.
15 April 2007
LNG decision charts new territory in regulations.
The California Coastal Commission entered into uncharted waters Thursday when it unanimously rejected BHP Billiton's proposed $800 million floating liquefied natural gas terminal off the Ventura County coast.
Ventura County Star.
15 April 2007
A new frontier for nuclear power?
President Bush's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership aims to build a prototype nuclear power plant and a spent-fuel recycling center near Roswell, NM, -- or in one of 10 other places in the country.
Santa Fe New Mexican.
15 April 2007
Town eyes green fleet.
Warming up to the concept of "green," members of the Town Council said last week they are willing to overcome a long-observed bias against buying foreign-made vehicles for the town fleet.
Palm Beach Daily News.
15 April 2007
Commuter banking on his bike for savings.
Eight years ago, when Bill Marble hired on at Doctors Medical Center, he decided it made no sense to drive his late-1960s Ford pickup the two miles from home to work.
Modesto Bee.
15 April 2007
Walnut Creek looks to make city greener.
As Walnut Creek grows, its leaders want to be sure the city doesn't get swallowed up in pavement and smoggy air.
Contra Costa Times.
15 April 2007
Greenpeace says 'no' to bulb.
Greenpeace India is now giving a call for ban on the ordinary incandescent bulb to reduce carbon dioxide emission.
Hindustan Times.
15 April 2007
Some environmental issues addressed during session, advocates say.
Arkansas environmentalists give the 86th General Assembly mixed reviews on how it addressed "green" issues during the recently concluded legislative session.
Springdale Morning News.
15 April 2007
Following a green road to `humane metropolis'.
Cities were once celebrated as ports of trade, railway hubs, seats of smoke-belching industries. Then they became known as office and banking centers. In the late 20th century, each big town had to have its own aquarium and stadiums. Recently there's been a new mantra - cities as magnets for "young creatives" in arts and entrepreneurship.
Hartford Courant.
15 April 2007
Rockland's air quality to be discussed.
Air quality will be the topic of discussion tomorrow when the county Legislature's Environmental Committee meets in New City, New York.
White Plains Journal News.
15 April 2007
Greener governor seen as rootless.
Schwarzenegger has suddenly become an international global warming hero, albeit one with a penchant for Hummers, leaving California environmentalists entirely unsure what to make of him.
Sacramento Bee.
15 April 2007
Paradise lost.
Over four centuries, the bay region's growth into a center of population, commerce and military power has exacted a toll on the creatures that greeted the Jamestown settlers, from the oyster to the shad to the wolf.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
15 April 2007
Iowa House rejects renewable energy requirement for coal-fired power plants.
Environmentalists had hoped that if a new coal-fired power plant like the one proposed near Waterloo had to be built in Iowa it would at least be required to get some of its energy from renewable sources. But an Iowa House committee has scrapped the idea after concerns about the cost to the industry.
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.
15 April 2007
Encinitas group demands report on environmental progress.
Some residents are demanding that Encinitas reveal its environmental score card and heed the advice of a city-commissioned report.
San Diego North County Times.
15 April 2007
