The politics of the UN climate process are undergoing something of a fundamental transformation.
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Environmentalists dismayed at the gridlock in the UN's climate process will be heartened by progress at a national level.
Ms Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat and 15-year veteran of the UN climate process, takes over from the current UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer early next month.
One of the oddest things about the UN climate process is the way it virtually forces countries with diametrically opposed interests to huddle close and pretend to be friends.
She said the "firewall" marked in the UN climate process at its origin in 1992, which divided the world into Annex One - rich countries with commitments to reduce emissions - and everyone else, must be maintained.
"Companies like Cairn and BP are desperate to pursue the last drops of oil on Earth, even if that means risking our environment and climate in the process, " Greenpeace said on its website.
The residents of Barrow are also feeling the effects of an eroding coastline, but Glenn isn't sure whether climate change has accelerated that process.
But in the meantime the process continues, and climate change may ultimately put restoration hopes out of reach by accelerating sea level rise.
It is still possible that changes in wind patterns and longer-term natural climate shifts may slow the currently tumultuous process of decline.
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Picking an enthusiast like Dr Cline also could suggest that climate was being taken seriously by the Copenhagen process.
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Some climate change "sceptics" claim that this process, rather than the burning of fossil fuels, can explain much of the Earth's recent rise in temperature.
But a few thousand km to the east, gas is also at the centre of an event that shows how the realities of climate change are very disconnected from the negotiating process.
The ocean also absorbs almost 25% of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from human activities each year, greatly reducing the impact of this greenhouse gas on the climate, while becoming more acidic in the process.
With the changes in demography and the start of the peace process, came changes in the political climate.
The Senate is in the process of moving forward on clean energy and climate change legislation.
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Cutajar is serving as chair of one of the key negotiating groups in the UN process that we hope will produce a bold new climate agreement in December in Copenhagen.
Earlier this week, an e-mail dropped into my lap from Saudi Arabia's chief climate negotiator Mohammed Al-Sabban, a veteran of the process with a reputation for being a tough operator.
The observations of other countries were that the United States, because of its position on the climate change, didn't wish to have this sort of process carry out so rapidly during this current administration's view.
Stephen McIntyre, a retired Canadian mining consultant, was struck by the very clear message of this graph and delved into the science behind it, a process that left him and followers of his blog, Climate Audit, intensely sceptical about its value.
Even more commendably, the IAC recognized the incestuous group-think involved in producing the IPCC reports and recommended that more scientists from outside the climate change establishment be inducted in various stages of the report-writing process.
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Even though the climate is suitable, tea-growing is simply too costly, since the process is labour-intensive and resists automation.
The complete transformation of the military, Rumsfeld said, would be a careful and slow process that would keep it adaptable to the fast-changing global climate.
The Skyonic scheme is a creative approach to the process of capturing carbon from emissions and locking it up before it can contribute to climate change.
Early attempts to model this process on computers could not get enough of the heat through to explain the changes in climate.
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