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battlelines over climate change: Britain`s scientists are drawing up a plan to fight renewed attempts by sceptics and industry-funded lobby groups to derail international action on climate change. According to a confidential internal memo, the Royal Society expects “groups and individuals” to question the science of global warming and the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It predicts that lobbyists will try to undermine a report next year from the UN`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is expected to give a new warning on climate change. |
| The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, April 22, 2006 |
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| Scientists
fear new attempts to undermine climate action: Britain`s scientists are drawing up a plan to fight renewed attempts by sceptics and industry-funded lobby groups to derail international action on climate change. According to a confidential internal memo, the Royal Society expects "groups and individuals" to question the science of global warming and the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It predicts that lobbyists will try to undermine a report next year from the UN`s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is expected to give a new warning on climate change. |
| The Asian Wall Street Journal (Internet), Hong Kong, April 21, 2006 |
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| Climate
change surfaces on Bush-Hu agenda: Climate change does not often come up in conversation between President George W. Bush and other world leaders, but the visit of China’s President Hu Jintao this week is thought to have been an exception. China is one of the key members of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, formed by the US last summer to promote research and development of “clean”, or low-carbon, energy technology. James Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said: “This [partnership] has had very significant leadership-level support. President Bush has discussed it with the president of India, and with the Chinese president coming.” |
| Financial Times (Internet), London, April 20, 2006 |
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| ‘Deforestation
in NE causing climatic change’: Large scale deforestation in the North-east is responsible for the fast changing climatic condition, scientists of National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (NCMRWF) claimed in Agartala. Advisor, NCMRWF, Dr L S Rathore, said that large-scale deforestation in the entire region was causing quick changes in the climatic scenario which either causes floods or drought. |
The Sentinel, Guwahati, Feb. 11, 2006 |
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