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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics

"Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British... more

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Climategate? Not likely.

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Bolivia: Lake Titicaca at dangerously low levels

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Arab experts predict Mideast water wars

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The President's Dilemma

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Confirmed: Oceans Absorbing Less CO2

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IRS disclosures show extent of oil and coal lobbying

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Report details "coal's assault on human health"

Coal is not now and never will be clean. It kills.

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Women Key in Climate Change Debate

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US OK with National Mitigation Measures in International Climate Treaty

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Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring

Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big... more

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From the Front Lines of Global Warming: California Firefighter Speaks

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World's Youth Demand Fair, Effective Climate Action

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Obama vows to seek climate action in Copenhagen

BEIJING - President Barack Obama, with China's leader at his side, lifted his sights Tuesday for a broad accord at next month's climate conference that he said will lead to immediate action and "rally the world" toward a solution on global warming.

Obama and President Hu Jintao talked of a joint desire to tackle climate change, but failed to publicly address the root problems that could unravel a deal at the 192-nation conference in Copenhagen: how much each country can contribute to curb greenhouse gases and how the world will pay the billions of dollars needed to fight rising temperatures.

Hu said nations would do their part "consistent with our respective capabilities," a reference to the now widely accepted view that developing nations — even energy guzzlers like China, India and Brazil — should be required only to set goals for reining in greenhouse-gas emissions, not accept absolute targets for reducing emissions like the industrialized countries.

Nonetheless, the symbolism of the world's two largest polluters pledging no half-measures in an agreement during the Dec. 7-18 conference took the sting out of the admission by Obama and other leaders over the weekend that Copenhagen would be only a way station rather than the endpoint envisioned two years ago when negotiations for a new climate treaty began.

Using language that went further than before, Obama said the aim of the summit "is not a partial accord or a political declaration, but rather an accord that covers all of the issues in the negotiations, and one that has immediate operational effect."

He said an all-encompassing agreement "would be an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution to our climate challenge."

Obama did not elaborate. But the United Nations and the European Union have called for a fund of at least $10 billion annually in the next three years to help poor countries draw up plans for moving to low-carbon economies, slow deforestation and take emergency steps against the effects of climate change.

The agreement is meant to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which required 37 industrial countries to cut emissions an average 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012, but which made no demands on rapidly growing economies like China's.

The Copenhagen agreement would require developing countries to curb their emissions growth, but it was unclear how their plans would be enshrined in the accord and what would happen if their promises were broken.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34001621/ns/us_news-environment/BEIJING - President Barack Obama, with China's leader at his side, lifted his sights... more