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KATOWICE, Poland | Climate talks pause as battle over key science report looms

KATOWICE, Poland | Climate talks pause as battle over key science report looms

KATOWICE, Poland — Negotiators at the U.N. climate summit are resting after the first week of talks ended on a sour note Saturday when the U.S. sided with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in blocking endorsement of a key scientific report on global warming.

Scientists and campaigners expressed frustration Sunday at diplomats’ inability to welcome the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on…

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Trump Wants A New Climate Deal

Trump Wants A New Climate Deal

The ECOreport looks into the United States Withdrawal from COP 21, Trump Wants A New Climate Deal

By Roy L Hales

Though often been portrayed as a climate change denier, the President made no reference to climate when he explained the reasons for America’s withdrawal from the agreement reached at Paris in 2015. Rather, it seems Donald Trump wants a new climate deal. (more…)

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President Trump and his team are pursuing what I call a 'control-alt-delete' strategy: control the scientists in the federal agencies, alter science-based policies to fit their narrow ideological agenda, and delete scientific information from government websites

Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists comments on the Trump Administration’s environmental policy. 

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In diplomatic milestone, the US and China formally join Paris Climate Agreement

In diplomatic milestone, the US and China formally join Paris Climate Agreement

The United States and China, the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, formally joined the Paris Climate Agreement on Saturday. U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping officially committed their respective nations to the global climate pact during an early evening ceremony in Hangzhou, China, The two leaders will hand their official documents signifying their…

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Rich Countries vs Poor at Bonn Climate Talks

Rich Countries vs Poor at Bonn Climate Talks

Who should pay for cleaning up the world’s greenhouse gas emissions? Should developing countries help those less developed? Rich Countries vs Poor at Bonn Climate Talks

Originally Published on Clean Technica

by Sandy Dechert

Friday marked the end of the week-long October international climate meeting (11th part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced…

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Whoops, Warming Lull Since 1998 Haunts Report on Climate Change

Whoops, Warming Lull Since 1998 Haunts Report on Climate Change

http://earthchangesmedia.com/whoops-warming-lull-since-1998-haunts-report-on-climate-change

Scientists working on a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising.

Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show there are deep concerns among…

Scientists…

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