UN chief uses Thai floods to press for movement on climate change - The Nation

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday used Thailand's current flood crisis to press world leaders to commit to climate change initiatives at an upcoming conference in South Africa.

Poll says most in Pa. see more pros than cons in shale industry

In most Pennsylvanians' eyes, the Marcellus Shale is a state resource that should bring much-deserved tax revenue to the region -- despite a governor in Harrisburg too influenced by the industry to properly tax or regulate it, according to a new survey released today.

Obama calls for China, India action on climate

CANBERRA (AFP) - United States (US) president Barack Obama on Wednesday said he would be pushing for greater efforts by emerging economies on global warming at coming climate talks in South Africa, which he warned would be a 'tough slog'.

Mr Obama described Australia's carbon tax, passed into law last week, as a 'bold strategy' to tackle pollution and said he would be advocating that countries like China and India take greater responsibility at Durban.

Climate change will lead to human exodus, extreme costs - Monsters and Critics

Berlin - Ten days before UN talks on climate change open in South Africa, the UN's top climate panel is slated to release Friday a report on extreme weather events.

The report, from the scientific Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is expected to focus on how global weather patterns are supposed to change if nothing is done to lower carbon emissions blamed for global warming, said Mojib Latif, a climate scientist at the University of Kiel.

'The poor countries will be especially hit,' Latif told dpa.

COP17 Climate change conference - YouTube

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