The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational Copenhagen accord. The President has worked steadily on behalf of a positive ...
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I thought it would be worthwhile to post the whole press release that the White House put out today about President Obama’s trip to Copenhagen. I’m sure folks have a whole variety of opinions on the President’s visit and his announcement of emissions cuts “in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020,” so let’ ...
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Chuck Norris on Copenhagen
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by Tom Athanasiou Photo: www.chucknorris.com A lot of dreck comes across my desktop. I’m even on a list called “ennui mail,” and some of it is utterly irredeemable. But still I took notice when Chuck Norris: Copenhagen Talks To Forge “One World Order” blew in. I especially like this bit: In this conference, they&# ...
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Mr. Obama Goes to Copenhagen
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The good news: President Obama has agreed to attend the Copenhagen climate treaty negotiations. That is certainly far more visible a show of presidential support for international efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions than we have seen before. At the ...
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Copenhagen
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The ‘Copenhagen Diagnosis‘, a report by 26 scientists from around the world was released today. The report is intended as an update to the IPCC 2007 Working Group 1 report. Like the IPCC report, everything in the Copenhagen Diagnosis is from the peer-reviewed literature, so there is nothing really new. But the report summarizes and ...
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China unveils Copenhagen targets
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China unveils its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, two weeks before the Copenhagen climate summit.
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Boost for Copenhagen as Obama sets target for emissions cut
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Prospects for a global climate deal at the UN Conference in Copenhagen next month strengthened yesterday when the United States put a number on the table and announced a target for cutting US greenhouse gas emissions.
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Obama Contradictions on Civilian Trials
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Glenn Greenwald continues to attack the Obama administration from the civil libertarian position on the subject of civilian trials for terror detainees and it's difficult to argue with him on any basis other than pure politics. The question is obvious: If KSM should be tried in civilian courts, why not everyone else who was not actually captured ...
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Breaking: Obama Will Visit Copenhagen Climate Talks, Announce 17% Emissions Cut
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The big news this morning is that President Obama will attend the Copenhagen meeting and probably announce a U.S. commitment, contingent on Congressional agreement, of a 17% cut in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2005 by 2020.
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Obama To Attend Copenhagen Climate Summit
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President Obama will attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen next month and will commit the United States to reducing its production of greenhouse gases, the White House said Wednesday.
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BREAKING: Obama to Attend COP15 Climate Summit
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photo: Alex Johnson via flickr. We don't have many details on this one yet, but the Washington Post says President Obama will indeed be attending the COP15 climate change summit. "President Obama will travel to Copenhagen Dec. 9, a day before accepting the Nobel Peace Price in Oslo, to help launch a U.N.-sponsored global climate change summit, a ...
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Want to Blog from Copenhagen? Enter the Hopenhagen Ambassador Contest
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Image via Hopenhagen Faithful TreeHugger readers and greens already know that the global climate talks in Copenhagen this December are a very big deal--but much of the world does not. Which is why the Huffington Post and Hopenhagen have a fantastic contest underway to help an ordinary citizen help spread the word about the climate talks. And yes,
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Another reason to get ‘hot under the collar’ about climate change
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If the politicians didn’t already have enough reasons to take the Copenhagen climate summit seriously, then Marshall Burke, from the University of California at Berkeley, has possibly given them one more. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Burke and colleagues suggest that armed conflict in sub-Saharan Africa ...
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China calls U.S. tariffs discriminatory
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BEIJING, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- China says the U.S. Commerce Department's decision to levy an average of about 13.7 percent anti-subsidy tariffs on its oil well pipes is "discriminatory."
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Press Corps Under Fire for Distorting Obama's China Trip
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Media coverage of President Obama's recent trip to China tended to focus on short-term political goals such as currency policy and whether China would join in sanctions against Iran. The trip was mainly covered not by China experts, after all, but by the White House press corps, which has long been criticized for inordinately focusing on short- ...
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Obama's climate vow boosts chances for Copenhagen deal
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Environmentalists and world leaders are encouraged by the president's commitment on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and by his plans to attend international talks in December. President Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month and is promising sizable reductions in U.S. carbon emissions, the White House ...
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China unveils carbon target ahead of Copenhagen
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions, laying out a carbon intensity goal on Thursday that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to looming climate talks as his government's central commitment.
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Obama Announces He Will Attend COP15 Climate Conference
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The White House officially announced today that President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen to attend the COP15 climate conference, a commitment Obama has thus far been reticent to make, saying that he would attend only if his presence would help secure a successful outcome in the climate negotiations. It now appears as if he feels [...]
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Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Emissions Target
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President Obama will offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, White House officials said.
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Dispelling Myths About India and Climate Change
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WorldChanging Team: by Manish Bapna Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh need to overcome the mistrust that has characterised recent US-India relations on climate change and energy. From...
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Obama's new Afghanistan plan may be much like old one
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President Obama is expected to announce next week his decision on troop numbers and strategy for the war in Afghanistan. It won't be too different from the policy laid out in March, say experts.
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An international conference on Darwin in Egypt helped lead to a public discussion of ideas that challenge religious thinking and the national curriculum, and promote critical thinking.
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The Buzz: Happy Birthday, Origin!
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Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published 150 years ago today, and it continues to inform, illuminate, and stir up controversy. Of course, some tortoises live longer than that, but Darwin's lasting legacy seems assured. On Gene Expression, Razib Khan tackles a study on the Fore, a cannibalistic people who ate their dead up until 1960. ...
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AP - A top Russian space official says there is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station.
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Shuttle heads homeward from space station
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Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday, headed home with one astronaut eager to hold his newborn daughter for the first time and another who's been away from her young son since the summer.
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Cookbook Reveals Secrets of Space Cuisine
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In this photo taken aboard the International Space Station in 2001, cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (left) and astronaut Frank L. Culbertson smile before their Thanksgiving meal. Their food is taped down to prevent it from floating away.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Crew Heads Home
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Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station early Wednesday, headed home with one astronaut eager to hold his newborn daughter for the first time and another who's been away from her young son since the summer.
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Atlantis and its seven astronauts head back to Earth
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The shuttle Atlantis undocks from the International Space Station and heads home
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Capturing a shuttle's flight in photos
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The crew aboard space shuttle Atlantis began its homeward journey today, undocking from the International Space Station. It's been a successful mission to provide equipment that will extend the station's lifetime in space. Here, now, are some photos of the...
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NASA STS-129 Report #19 3:15 p.m. CST Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
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Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station at 3:53 a.m. CST Wednesday, ending a successful resupply visit that included three spacewalks. The total docked time was 6 days, 17 hours and 2 minutes.
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Atlantis Heads Home from Space Station
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NASA STS-129 Report #18 Wednesday, - 2:00 a.m. CST
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven-astronaut crew are scheduled to leave the International Space Station at 3:53 a.m. CST.
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A dozen astronauts in orbit will pause for a weightless Thanksgiving Thursday, despite the fact that they're flying on two different spaceships.
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Chemistry and Thanksgiving: Making lessons relevant
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Why does a turkey pop-up timer work? Why do muffins rise? Why do you feel so bloated after Thanksgiving dinner--and which antacid works faster? Those questions may sound like they belong in a food magazine but they were at the core of a demonstration in a chemistry course at Catholic University, an effort by Professor Diane Bunce to engage her ...
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Thanksgiving on Twitter: gratitude in 140 characters
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Thanksgiving tweets are rolling in on Twitter, pondering recipes and giving thanks. But is tweeting while dining now OK?
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Readers, Send Us Photos Of Your Green Thanksgiving Feast!
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Thanksgiving day feast: roasted pumpkin salad. 101 Cookbooks Was the centerpiece to your meal an organic turkey on tofurkey? Did you serve the meal with antique cutlery on an organic cotton tablecloth? Were the yummy sweet potatoes from the local farmer's market? Did you toast with organic or local wine? Prove it! We want to see photos of your ...
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Thanksgiving and swine flu
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In the US we are about to embark on the Thanksgiving holiday, a 4 day period where families get together for a celebratory meal (at least celebratory unless you are one of the original inhabitants of the continent). There is lots of intergenerational visiting (grandparents to great grandchildren and lots of mingling of people from disparate ...
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Incredibly powerful waves of plasma rippling across the surface of the sun and dubbed "solar tsunamis" were first observed years ago, but were thought to be an optical illusion. Scientists have now confirmed, though, that they are really real.
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STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami
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Westtxfun writes "The STEREO satellites recently confirmed the existence of solar mega-tsunamis when they captured height data after a sunspot recently erupted. The scale of this tsunami literally dwarfs the Earth's diameter — it was 62,000 miles high and raced across the surface at 560,000 mph! STEREO A and B orbit 90 degrees apart and ...
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mumbai held tearful memorials and police staged a show of strength on Thursday as India's financial hub marked the first anniversary of militant raids that killed 166 people and ratcheted up tensions with Pakistan.
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Even in space, cornbread dressing is a dependable favorite to dress up any astronaut meal, especially around the holidays. Here is NASA's proven method for space cornbread dressing as tested by the agency's spaceflight food experts:
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NASA brings chemical sensor to iPhone
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Macworld : If you are in need of finding out if there is ammonia, chlorine gas or methane in the air around you, there's an iPhone app for that. A researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center has developed what NASA calls a proof of concept of new technology that would bring compact, low-cost, low-power, high-speed nanosensor-based chemical sensing ...
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A cluster of ancient stars is likely the relic of a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way during its early days, scientists now find. Called Terzan 5, the globular star cluster lies within the Milky Way's central bulge of stars that protrudes up and down from the galaxy's flattened disk. A globular cluster can host a collection of 10,000 to ...
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The 21-year-old Australian hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm lands a job developing software for the phones.
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Chronic pain is experienced by as many as two out of three older adults. Now, a new study finds that pain may be more hazardous than previously thought, contributing to an increased risk of falls in adults over age 70.
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Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain and the Occurrence of Falls in an Older Population
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Suzanne G. Leveille, PhD, RN; Richard N. Jones, ScD; Dan K. Kiely, MPH; Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, PhD; Robert H. Shmerling, MD; Jack M. Guralnik, PhD, MD; Douglas P. Kiel, MD; Lewis A. Lipsitz, MD; Jonathan F. Bean, MD
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The New York Times has an article on cousin marriage that's up. Here's some important bits: Shane Winters, 37, whom she now playfully refers to as her "cusband," proposed to her at a surprise birthday party in front of family and friends, and the two are now trying to have a baby. They are not concerned about genetic defects, Ms. Spring-Winters ...
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As on Earth, electrical fields above Saturn interact with atmospheric chemicals to produce shimmering lights above the polar regions.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two freelance journalists held hostage in Somalia for 15 months arrived safely in neighboring Kenya on Thursday.
 
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Bildung könnte der Schlüssel zur Eindämmung der Überbevölkerung sein, meint der österreichische Demograph Wolfgang Lutz. Auch die Umwelt würde von einer Anhebung des weltweiten Bildungsniveaus profitieren.
When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers. New experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver -- the body's metabolic clearinghouse -- is mostly controlled by food intake and not by the body's circadian clock as conventional wisdom had it.
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Feeding The Clock
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When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver-the body's metabolic clearinghouse-is mostly controlled by food intake and not by the body's circadian clock as ...
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A recently devised method of imaging the chemical communication and warfare between microorganisms could lead to new antibiotics, antifungal, antiviral and anti-cancer drugs.
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Such infections are usually linked to flu, but this year's rate is higher than normal. Also: A drop in flu cases is reported at colleges, and vaccine side effects are found to be minimal, CDC says. Federal officials said Wednesday that they have noticed "a worrisome spike in serious pneumococcal disease" linked to pandemic H1N1 influenza. Health ...
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