U.S., China, others join Copenhagen Accord on climate Still, the number of nations signing on, along with the amount they pledged in reductions, buoyed many environmentalists after the December climate summit meeting in Copenhagen. The 193 countries represented in Copenhagen could not reach agreement on a pact to reduce carbon emissions. They settled instead for a voluntary accord that asks each nation to pledge to reduce them. "What we now know that we did get out of Copenhagen was clarity of what countries are going to be doing to fight climate change," said Keya Chatterjee, director of the World Wildlife Fund's climate change program. The situation is "much better than we had a couple months ago. But it's still not where we...

The Bright Side of Global Warming It seems the UN IPCC only tabulates the benefits of climate change when they are outweighed by the costs. By ANNE JOLIS Could global warming actually be ...

Do rings of Herbie the elm have age, climate data? contacted the Maine Forest Service about examining Herbie's trunk to see what can be learned about the tree's age and about the climate over the years. Peter Lammert of the Maine Forest Service said his computer has been clogged with e-mails from scientists interested in the stories that Herbie's growth rings might tell. In particular, Herbie's demise is bringing out of the woodwork highly specialized scientists who study tree rings: Dendroclimatologists, who look to tree rings for answers about the climate, and dendrochronologists, who specialize in determining the age of trees based on rings. The tallest American elm in New England, the 110-foot-tree survived 14...

Prentice attacks Quebec's climate strategy Speaking in Calgary, Jim Prentice defended Canada's climate-change strategy announced over the weekend, which follows the lead of the United States to cut ...

	Theft of Climate Scientists' Emails Was A Highly Sophisticated Job, British Scientist Says Climate skeptics and deniers have used the stolen emails - private discussions between climate scientists going back 13 years - to claim that global warming ... Climate change spending in new Obama budget - Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US President Barack Obama's new budget includes billions of dollars in spending to support reducing the nation's greenhouse gas ... Growing Pentagon Focus on Energy and Climate For the first time, the report — at the request of lawmakers — considered the significance of climate change for national security, both as a potential ... Obama's $3.8T Budget Includes Cap-And-Trade Placeholder The president's $3.8 trillion spending plan calls for lawmakers to set up a "comprehensive market-based climate change policy" that would curb heat-trapping ... ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has placed an $1 billion emissions reduction fund at the heart of the Coalition's new $3.2b climate change policy. Announcing the policy today, Mr Abbott said the Coalition would use the fund and its policy to invest in direct measures to help the public, industry and farmers cut emissions. Those measures would include planting 20 million trees, a $1,000 solar panel rebate, and soil carbon storage. Mr Abbott said the plan would be simpler, cheaper and more effective than the Government's emissions trading scheme and would deliver the same 5 per cent cut in emissions by 2020. "Our policy will deliver the same emissions reductions a... Bin Laden on climate change We have failed to find Osama bin Laden after eight years, and now he is opining on our climate-change policies and calling for an economic boycott. ...