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Climate Change Part 31: China Overtakes U.S As Worst Emitter 2008
On June 19, 2007 China announced carbon emission data revealing it had exceeded the U.S’ overall…
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Climate Change Part 30: Barack Obama Affirms Climate Change Goals 2007
By 2007, aspiring president Barack Obama was convinced global warming was reality. On Tuesday, November…
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Climate Change Part 29: The Bell Tolls Again at Mauna Loa 2008
Mauna Loa is a mountain in Hawaii reaching to 13,679 feet above the ocean. Climatologist…
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Climate Change Part 28: 2007 When Al Gore Pleaded for Vision
Al Gore served as Bill Clinton’s vice-president from 1993 to 2001. And he came close…
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Climate Change Part 27: 2006 Emissions Reach 8 Billion Tons
In 2006, the world achieved 8 billion tons of annual carbon emissions from fossil fuel…
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Climate Change Part 26: Stern Review: Climate Economics 2006
The 2001 IPCC Third Assessment warned of “new and stronger evidence” that humanity’s greenhouse gas…
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Climate Change Part 25: IPCC-3 Finds Stronger Evidence 2001
The Third Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had a different take on…
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Climate Change Part 24: George W Bush Energy Policy Kills Kyoto 2001
1999 had a few surprises, for those who noticed despite the millennium pending. It became…
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Climate Change Part 23: The Hockey Stick Effect 1999
The hockey stick effect is a common distraction at business meetings, where a team predicts…
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Climate Change Part 22: The 1997-1998 El Niño Effect
The El Niño is an irregular set of climate changes affecting the Equatorial Pacific region…