This is in sharp scientific dispute and has been repeatedly contradicted by real-world climate conditions.
But the net effect of the changing Alaskan Arctic on world climate remains unknown.
Which is why rich-world climate activists are placing their faith in two factors that appeal to India's and China's self-interest.
For, even if the world climate is to change, it is something that we can neither know or do anything about.
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Most of the people in the world climate community think there is about a degree of warming left if we turned everything off now.
Across the world climate change is set to exacerbate problems where poor land use and population pressure is already putting an immense strain on finely balanced ecologies.
Moreover, U.S. emissions restrictions would have no real-world climate impact.
We can believe real-world climate data or we can believe alarmist computer models that are programmed by alarmists, exist purely in cyberspace, and are consistently contradicted by real-world observations.
So, yes, absolutely, that world climate against terrorism--well, people stopped seeing the point of terrorism or stopped seeing that there was any justification for it--certainly helped turn that tide.
The amount of energy available in the Earth system to be extracted by wind turbines is limited, and if sufficient energy is removed the world climate will be affected.
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Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- has so far stopped at Miami, the Galapagos Islands and Cancun, in Mexico -- the latter during the United Nations World Climate Conference.
The Planet Under Pressure conference is organized by Diversitas, the International Programme of Biodiversity Science, the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, and the World Climate Research Programme.
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The publication was commissoned in conjunction with Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (ICACGP), The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).
As such, they form an essential component of marine observing systems established as part of the World Weather Watch, the World Climate Research Programme, the Global Ocean Observing System, the Global Climate Observing System and other meteorological and oceanographic operational and research programmes.
What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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For indigenous communities around the world, climate change impacts are not a future prospect.
Across the United States and the world, climate change is already affecting communities, livelihoods, and the environment.
But it does not want to break with the rest of the developing world on climate issues.
Combine that with the calmer world geopolitical climate at present, and safe-haven assets like gold are being overlooked by many investors.
"It's the extremes of water which are going to provide the biggest threat to the developing world from climate change, " he said.
BBC: Man with dead camel in desert. Image: Jim Loring/Tearfund
So this is also the season when stories of death, destruction, and the end of the world from climate change appear daily.
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Because a world without climate change is priceless, MasterCard has teamed up with the business-savvy environmental group, Brighter Planet, to offer corporate customers carbon footprint reports.
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The coffee giant intends to use the farm to help coffee farming communities around the world mitigate climate change impacts, and to support long-term crop stability on a warming planet.
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What I've put forward, and I'm the only Deputy Leader candidate who's written over twenty thousand words of detailed policies on tackling inequality, on making sure that we lead the world against climate change.
In 1999, before Al Gore taught the world about climate change, an ex-horror fiction writer named Whitley Streiber and a supernatural radio show host named Art Bell joined forces to write The Coming Global Superstorm.
With respect to carbon emissions, I share the view of your Prime Minister and most scientists in the world that climate change is a real problem and that human activity is contributing to it, and that we all have a responsibility to find ways to reduce our carbon emissions.
Can they reinvent the car for a congested, urbanized world with vexing climate and energy problems?
In the past 10, 000 years, the world's climate has become temporarily colder and drier on several occasions.
NPR's Christopher Joyce talked to some scientists about this arctic deluge and what it might mean for the world's climate.
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Area after area of neglect can be catalogued, from the strife-torn Andes to regions around the world undermined by climate change.
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