President Bush, who has long refused to commit the United States to specific limits on pollutants contributing to global warming, took a new turn Thursday in proposing that the U.S. and other leading nations by the end of next year set “a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases.”
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U.S. News & World Report - Melting ice is making Greenland, the world's largest island, the with-it new stop for those who want to highlight the risks of global climate change. The latest such visitor is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a congressional delegation that stopped off in Greenlandlast weekend. Afterward, she said that she saw "firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality."
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President Bush, under international pressure to take tough action against global warming, called for a summit of the United States and other nations that spew the most greenhouse gases on the planet.
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Faced with growing evidence of the threat from global warming, President Bush said Thursday that he would lead an international effort to set long-term goals for reducing emissions that contribute to climate change.
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Just a week ahead of the Group of Eight summit to be held in Germany next week, President Bush Thursday outlined his own proposal to combat global warming. A group of 15 or so nations will be invited to a meeting in the United States this fall as part of a plan to agree upon a global target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2008.
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AP - Greenpeace activists on Thursday unveiled a model of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat — the site where the original Biblical Ark is said to have landed after the great flood — in an appeal to world leaders to take immediate action against climate change.
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THE head of NASA is under fire for saying he’s not sure global warming is a problem and it would be “arrogant” to assume climate should not change.
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The head of NASA said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added that it would be “arrogant” to assume the world’s climate should not change in the future. Scientists called the remarks ignorant.
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AP - Just because Katrina was the perfect storm, a catastrophic combo of the wrong hurricane in the wrong place at the wrong time, doesn’t mean that history can’t repeat itself, leaving another city obliterated by another tempest. It can.
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WASHINGTON - The head of NASA drew criticism from scientists when he said he was not sure global warming was a problem and added that it would be “arrogant” to assume the world’s climate should not change in the future.
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