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Faint Nicholas Nicholas Stern says climate change worse than he thought		17 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:23 AM on 17 Apr 2008 Nicholas Stern, the British economist known for a major report in which he declared that combating climate change would cost less than ignoring it, has announced that he was wrong -- about how bad the problem is. "We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change" in the Oct. 2006 report, he said in a speech Wednesday. "All of the links in the chain ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

Soldiering On Prince Charles, Richard Branson compare climate crisis to war		14 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:40 PM on 14 Feb 2008 Prince Charles warned in a speech on Thursday that if a "courageous and revolutionary" approach to tackling climate change is not undertaken, "the result will be catastrophe for all of us but with the poorest in our world hit hardest of all. In this sense it is surely comparable to war." Also this week, Virgin Group big gun Richard Branson suggested at a United Nation ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, news, Richard Branson (all these topics)

As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage		13 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
As Long As the Sox Are OK Study says climate threatens Northeast icons like lobsters and foliage Imagine the Northeast without lobsters, snow, cranberries, and colorful foliage. Without that, you'd have -- what, white churches and crusty old lumberjacks? But all those natural icons are at risk from climate change, says a report the Union of Concerned Scientists put ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, New England, New York, news (all these topics)

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