independent.co.uk - 3/9/2009
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The world's best efforts at combating climate change are likely to offer no more than a 50-50 chance of keeping temperature rises below the threshold of disaster, according to research from the UK Met Office. > >
supereco.com - 3/10/2009
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supereco.com —
Kids without homes. It seems hard to grasp,
doesn't it? But a new report by the National...
Center on Family Homelessness that looked at data from 2005-2006 found that 1.5 million kids were homeless that year. And with foreclosures and an economic downswing full into effect since then, ...
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1 in 50 American children homeless
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Mapping the Contours of Climate Change
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With formal negotiations on the new international climate change treaty due to open in three weeks time , Independent readers are starting to work with the ...
If we can't stop change, we must adapt
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... of climate change scientists is an important one for policymakers. At the conference being held in Copenhagen, in advance of a key meeting of climate change negotiators in December, scientists have said that even after (as yet unachieved) reductions in greenhouse gas emissions we only have a 50:50 chance of preventing a two-degree rise in global temperatures. This is depressing stuff. ...
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