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A reporter responds to queries about climate change, scientific research, policy action or lack thereof, and a minority that firmly argues that clouds will protect the planet.
Businesses that exceed their allowances of greenhouse gas emissions would be able to buy excess allowances from companies across the border.
Miffed with the way some UN and other international organizations have played a partisan role in climate change negotiations, India has demanded that their reports and studies should not be accepted as part of these deliberations.
While some 1,200 airlines had complied with the EU requirements, eight Chinese and two Indian airlines representing less than three percent of aviation emissions in the 27-nation bloc had refused.
A one degree celsius rise in temperature associated with increase in carbondioxide in atmosphere could hit wheat production in India unless "adaptation" strategies are adopted, according to a government report on climate change.
The government has not undertaken the kinds of analyses that would be needed to reduce emissions sector by sector, the environment commissioner warns.
The senator says the nation must address greenhouse gas emissions.
The bill framed to check shrinking green coverage and to increase plantation in the state is yet to be presented before the cabinet due to the state government's lackadaisical approach.
The rise in sea level by 1.29 millimetre every year along the Indian coastline has not caused any major erosion, science and technology and earth sciences minister Vilasrao Deshmukh informed the Rajya Sabha.
Climate change will be an additional stress on Indian forests, especially in Upper Himalayan stretches, according to government report.
If Canada exploits the oil in its tar sands, civilization will be at risk.
California and Quebec move closer to an agreement for cross-border trading of carbon permits, which industries must acquire to cover their emissions of greenhouse gases.
Fresh thoughts on the challenges in attributing extreme weather to human-driven climate change.
The government has taken exception to the 'biases' in the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Asia Pacific Human Development report, titled, One Planet, which was released on Thursday.
The EU has shifted its goalpost for climate change again, unilaterally seeking talks on a new global protocol from this year that puts India and other developing nations at par with developed world.
We hear it so often from the activist lefties that we perhaps take it for granted. It's the one asserting that Big Oil needs its "excessive" profits taxed away. This good article in the US Investors Business Daily is highly revealing however.

A scientific study published on Wednesday revealed that the Himalayas, one of world’s richest biodiversity zones, is warming faster than other parts of the globe.
A closer look at research on the role of clouds in global warming
An Australian study of ocean salinity over the past 50 years has revealed a "fingerprint" showing that climate change has accelerated the rainfall cycle, a researcher said Friday.
In climate talks beginning on Monday in Bonn, India will oppose the EU’s move to start negotiations on the draft of a new climate protocol in 2012 itself.