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Coal dependency seen braking China's climate drive |
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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent NY ALESUND, Norway (Reuters) - China will have trouble cutting its dependence on coal despite growing pressures to fight global warming, a leading Chinese official told an international panel of experts on Wednesday on an Arctic island. Amid growing concern over the climate change impact, China will overtake the United States by 2008 as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases because of booming economic growth and a heavy reliance on high-polluting coal-fired power plants. "China is one of the few countries whose energy mix is dominated by coal," Yue Ruisheng, a deputy director general at China's State Environmental Protection Administration, told a conference held within sight of a melting Arctic glacier. |
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Global warming dismissed by state officials |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
By JAMES SALZER, STACY SHELTON
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
Published on: 08/22/07And now for a message on global warming from your Georgia Legislature: Don't sweat it. Climate scientists and environmental activists like former Vice President Al Gore are alarmists. They use flawed statistical models to predict a catastrophic future of thawed glaciers, super-charged hurricanes, swamped coastlines and scorched crops. That was the conclusion of three of the four panelists at a state House hearing on Tuesday titled "Climate Change: Fact or Fiction?" While other states are looking for ways to reduce the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, Georgia officials are not convinced there's a problem they can do anything about. |
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Judge Orders White House To Produce Global Warming Reports |
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge in San Francisco has sided with environmentalists who sued the White House and is now ordering the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming. U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled that the Bush administration violated the Global Change Research Act of 1990 when it failed to meet deadlines for an updated research plan on global warming's potential impact on the United States. Armstrong set a March 1 deadline for the administration to issue the research plan, which is supposed to guide federal research on climate change. The Bush administration has claimed it has discretion over how and when it produced the reports. The judge on Tuesday rejected that argument. Bush administration officials are reviewing the ruling and had no immediate comment on it. |
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