News On Climate Change Still Dreary
Harry Smith: U.S. Must Make Global Warming A Priority Or Else
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Play CBS Video Video Climate Change: Cause & Effect Mark Phillips has an exclusive on the long-awaited report on climate change to be released next week. The report blames humanity for higher temperatures and lists some likely effects.
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Video Rewriting The Science NASA's top scientist studying climate change says the Bush administration is restricting what he can say about global warming. Scott Pelley reports.
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Video PM Blair On Global Warming CBS News RAW: British Prime Minister Tony Blair explained a report regarding climate change and global warming. He called for "bold and decisive action" to keep things in check.
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A Greenpeace activist protests against global warming outside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005. (CP PHOTO/Ryan Remiorz) (CP Photo)
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Marc Olefs and Andrea Fischer, from left, researchers from Innsbruck University, check a field covered with white polyethylene against the backdrop of jagged peaks, at Eisgrat skiing station on Stubai glacier near the village of Neustift-im-Stubaital, in this July 4, 2005 photo. Most glaciers will disappear from the Alps by 2050, scientists told a conference on climate change Monday, Jan. 22, 2007. (AP)
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Interactive Global Warming The greenhouse effect, a look at the Kyoto Protocol and a history of the Earth's climate.
I have a headache. The reason? I just read the New York Times story about the big climate change meeting in Paris. The story is not in the paper yet but you can find it online. The scientists will conclude that yes, the planet is warming up and that they are 90 percent certain that the main culprit is human-caused emissions.
My head hurts because the news comes as no surprise. The evidence has been building for a long time. Do you think maybe there should be some government action in response? Could we go back and say, "my bad, let’s sign the Kyoto Accords?" Or could we really get serious about emissions standards?
The polar caps are melting, glaciers are shrinking and the United States can’t quite get around to deciding whether or not it ought to cap emissions. Bad for business, you know. But consider this: What will be more expensive – the cost of a clean environment or the cost to keep the oceans out of our front yards?
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