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Reuters on IHT
The verdict from the EU summit in Brussels allows more emissions for industries hit hard from the current economic crisis.

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Scientists have discovered new rifts on the Antarctic ice shelf and they are concerned that the rifts could cause it to break away from Antarctic peninsula. It would be the largest ice shelf in the Antarctic region to break away.

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Thus far the strongest effects of global warming have been seen in the Arctic regions. However, the tropics may soon start to show the damage from the earth’s warming. As the tropics get even hotter, the high temps could adversely affect many of the species that live there.

New York Times
Kate Galbraith discusses the personal missions of BP’s T. Boone Pickens and Chesapeake Energy’s Aubrey K. McClendon and their traditional strategy of getting their energy message to the masses.

Technology Review
Technology Review’s Kevin Bullis sits down with Steven Koonin, BP’s chief scientist, to discuss strategies on energy and where BP is headed.

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Many people argue that implementing measures to reduce greenhouse gases costs businesses and tax payers’ money. California officials sought to prove those people wrong when they released the results of a new study showing that the ambitious California global warming plan will create an additional 100,000 jobs.

The Green Lantern at Slate.com
Jacob Liebenluft explores the alternatives to office coffee…deciphering that using an old ceramic mug in the office…and washing it with cold water and phosphate-free soap beat the styrofoam cup alternative.

Reuters
Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection announces that China is researching methods to tax carbon emissions. Taxes like this have been used in China to curtail emissions since the population boom.

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Recent studies suggest that rising world temperatures will cause respiritory allergy rates to climb. The higher levels of CO2 in the atmosophere will lead to rising ragweed pollen production.

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The World Wide Fund for Nature said that records may indicate that this summer Arctic ice fell to its lowest level ever recorded. According to the group, this indicates an excellent reason, and a necessary one, to push governments to work towards agreements on climate change.