Speaking alongside other G8 and G20 delegates at the Forum d'Avignon this weekend, Sarko affirmed his commitment to setting up a "national music center" within France, in the hopes of spurring artistic creativity amid a rather dour industrial climate.
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Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere have grown 38 percent to approximately 389 parts per million today from 280 parts per million in 1850, the pre-industrial benchmark for climate change.
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The Bush administration has upset U.S. allies opposed to its plans to develop a missile defense system and its rejection of the Kyoto agreement on limiting industrial emissions linked to climate change.
Some large industrial groups have long argued that the climate problem is real.
It is hard to argue that anything above the Holocene maximum (of about 0.5 degrees above the pre-industrial temperature) can preserve a safe climate, and that we have already gone too far.
The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age were an embarrassment for those who, in recent years, wished to play down the natural variations in climate that occurred before the Industrial Revolution.
The report blames industrial pollution from the 19th century for climate change from the mid-20th century, although the recent warming trend set in about 20 years ago from the cumulative use of fossil fuels giving off clear greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide.
Many of his announcements were reheated (such as bringing aviation into Europe's emissions-trading scheme), modest (the climate-change levy, an industrial tax, will rise with inflation) or so speculative as to be irrelevant (a suggestion that the target for carbon cuts might be raised to 80% by 2050 from 60%).
Local consumer markets are still evolving and key industries such as the IT and industrial sectors are continuing to move forward despite the current economic climate.
With such approach, natural anomalies can be assessed in relation to those caused by mining and related industrial activity, taking into account the geology, topography, climate, vegetation and hydrology in different regions of Africa.
One of the key businesses of United Technologies is also in the area of climate control systems and services for multifamily, commercial and industrial facilities.
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The other devices detonated several hours earlier, one outside a building housing the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research and one outside a branch of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry.
Some Democrats, worried about potential job losses in industrial states, are already urging the EPA to slow down its push to combat climate change.
But Republicans still have the power to block climate legislation in the Senate, especially with some Democrats from coal and industrial states also ambivalent about cap-and-trade.
Given the concern over climate change and the looming shortage of fossil fuels and uranium which overshadows our industrial future, geoscientists are focusing more on renewable energy these days.
Stopping the increase at 450 parts per million when the climate is generally expected to be no more than two degrees warmer than in pre-industrial times is the world's ambition.
Changes in agricultural practices and the local climate - thought to be brought about by global warming - as well as housing, industrial and transport developments have all taken their toll on good species-rich grassland in the county.
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