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NCE UPDATE 14 November 2007

Article Headlines
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Climate scepticism: The top 10
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Conference on final climate change report opens in Spain
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Scientists enhance mother nature's carbon handling mechanism
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Wildfire drives carbon levels in Northern forests
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CAMPAIGN 2008: Clinton unveils sweeping climate, energy proposals
 
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Articles

1 Climate scepticism: The top 10

What are some of the reasons why "climate sceptics" dispute the evidence that human activities such as industrial emissions of greenhouse gases and deforestation are bringing potentially dangerous changes to the Earth's climate?

http://news.bbc.co.uk

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2 Conference on final climate change report opens in Spain

November 13, 2007

VALENCIA, Spain - The UN's top climate official warned policy-makers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible."

canadianpress.google.com

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3 Scientists enhance mother nature's carbon handling mechanism

November 8, 2007

Adapted from materials provided by Penn State

ScienceDaily - Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth's oceans for storage.

www.sciencedaily.com

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4 Wildfire erives carbon levels in northern forests

November 5, 2007

Adapted from materials provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison.

ScienceDaily - Far removed from streams of gas-thirsty cars and pollution-belching factories lies another key player in global climate change. Circling the northern hemisphere, the conifer-dominated boreal forests - one of the largest ecosystems on earth - act as a vast natural regulator of atmospheric carbon levels.

www.sciencedaily.com

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5 CAMPAIGN 2008: Clinton unveils sweeping climate, energy proposals

November 5, 2007

Darren Samuelsohn

E&ENews - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton released a broad energy and climate change agenda today during a campaign stop in Iowa that promises a 180 degree swing from Bush administration policies.

www.stockhouse.com

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