Global warming
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At Copenhagen climate talks, Obama will promise 17% drop in greenhouse gases...of the talks. In public speeches and private meetings with world leaders, he has repeatedly pledged U.S. action to curb global warming, in contrast to eight years of reluctance under the Bush Administration. But he wavered on... In this article: Barack Obama, Copenhagen, United States, Global warming, White House, Kyoto Protocol, Angela Merkel, and Gordon Brown |
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The Washington Post | November 03, 2009
German Chancellor Merkel urges U.S. to act on climate change
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Congress and the Obama administration Tuesday to take bold steps to address global warming, even as Senate Democrats and Republicans feuded over whether to press ahead with a climate bill.
In this article: Angela Merkel, John F. Kerry, EPA, Climate change, George V. Voinovich, Barbara Boxer, GOP, and Benjamin L. Cardin
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | November 03, 2009
Merkel calls for deal on climate change
German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a speech on Tuesday to the US Congress, exhorting the world to "overcome the walls of the 21st Century" and reach a deal to combat global warming.
In this article: Angela Merkel, Climate change, Germany, Barack Obama, United States, Iran, Afghanistan, and White House
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | November 16, 2009
Summit urged to set climate accord deadline
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned plea Tuesday to a joint session of Congress to work together on efforts to curb global warming and to help forge a binding climate-change deal at an international meeting next month. "We...
In this article: Angela Merkel, Copenhagen, U.N., Climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon, and India
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AP Online | November 19, 2009
Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010
Sarkozy said he and Merkel both planned to attend the United Nations conference in Denmark on Dec. 17-18 to push for a deal that limits global warming by no more than 2 degrees by 2050 - and called on other EU heads of state to join them.
In this article: European Union, United Nations, Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Copenhagen, Brussels, Climate change, Germany, and Europe
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CNN | November 03, 2009
German Chancellor Merkel addresses Congress
..."sacrifice" in Afghanistan Washington (CNN) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, telling U.S. lawmakers that the world needs an agreement on global warming. "Icebergs are melting in the...
In this article: Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, U.S., In Africa, Copenhagen, Denmark, Washington, and CNN
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Financial Times | November 03, 2009
Merkel warns Iran against nuclear move
...a German chancellor in more than half a century, Mrs Merkel aligned Germany closely with the US drive to tackle a range of threats such as global warming, international terrorism and climate change. Her comments on Iran signalled Germany's...
In this article: Angela Merkel, Iran, US, Climate change, Berlin, Germany, Europe, and Tehran
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Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-twentieth century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the last century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the twentieth century, and that natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect afterward. These basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 40 scientific societies and academies of science, including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.
Climate model projections summarized in the latest IPCC report indicate that global surface temperature will probably rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century. The uncertainty in this estimate arises from the use of models with differing climate sensitivity, and the use of differing estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions. Some other uncertainties include how warming and related changes will vary from region to region around the globe. Most studies focus on the period up to 2100. However, warming is expected to continue beyond 2100 even if emissions stop, because of the large heat capacity of the oceans and the long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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