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Short trailer for a 15 minute video by the Forestry Commission of Great Britain on the interaction between Earth’s forests and our climate. Includes six point action plan to ensure forests do their part to combat climate change, plus a link to the full video.

A national policy to cut carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent over the next 20 years could still result in increased economic growth, according to Robert Repetto, an economics professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Eastday-New UN climate chief urges governments to do more to face climate change
New UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urged governments to make further progress in dealing world climate change on Thursday, just a few weeks before new round of UN climate talks.

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A short video from Treeflights.com about trees, carbon offsetting, and the pros and cons of carbon offset forestry.

US Senate climate bill cuts aid to global forests
* Greens, utilities want forest funds back in climate bill

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U-Va. urged to fight subpoena of climate scientist’s documents
RICHMOND — Academics from across the country are rallying against a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II seeking documents related to the work of a former University of Virginia climate scientist, even as the university says it is preparing to comply with Cuccinelli’s… Climate change – Environment – University of Virginia – Activism – Climatology

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Trawling past climate
South-eastern Australia is in the grip of one of the worst droughts in recorded history. A project to improve our understanding of the historical impacts of climate extremes will assist with planning for a hotter and drier future. Gabrielle Murphy reports.

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Toro Trading Selects Orc Software for Options Market Making on Chicago Climate Futures Exchange
NEW YORK—-Regulatory News:

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More urban myths about climate change are busted as I look at the Earth’s climate over the last 500 million years. What causes it to change? Since carbon dioxide was much higher in the past, why do climatologists say higher CO2 now poses a problem? And of course there’s the familiar myth that CO2 can’t influence temperatures because the climate was much colder in the past when carbon dioxide levels were much higher. REFERENCES “CO2-forced climate thresholds during the Phanerozoic” — DL Royer, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Dec 2006 “Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate?” — N. Shaviv and J. Veizer, GSA Today, 2003 “Bathymetric and isotopic evidence for a short-lived late Ordovician glaciation in a greenhouse period” — Brenchley et al, Geology; April 1994 “Reconciling Late Ordovician (440 Ma) glaciation with very high (14X) CO2 levels” — CROWLEY TJ ; BAUM SK, Journal of Geophysical Research 1995 “An atmospheric pCO2 threshold for glaciation in the Late Ordovician” — MT Gibbs et. al, Geology; May 1997 “A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician.” — LR Kump et al, Palaeoclimatology alaeogeography Palaeoecology 1999 “Long-lived glaciation in the Late Ordovician? Isotopic and se- quence-stratigraphic evidence from western Laurentia” — MR Saltzman,SA Young, Geology; February 2005 “Solar Activity Over the Last 1150 Years: Does it Correlate with Climate?” — I. Usoskin et.al, Proceedings of The 13th Cool Stars Workshop …

Climate is on the mind
There is a lot going on in Piedmont in the realm of environmental efforts.

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