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In this Sept. 24, 2008 file photo, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, accompanied by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.  House Democrats will decide a bruising intra-party battle Thursday as they vote on whether to topple Dingell as chairman of the committee with oversight of energy and global warming and replace him with liberal Rep. Henry Waxman of California.    (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)AP - House Democrats are deciding a bruising intraparty battle on whether to topple veteran Rep. John Dingell as chairman of the committee with oversight of energy and global warming and replace him with liberal Rep. Henry Waxman.


California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday,  Nov 19, 2008. Schwarzenegger, who has advocated strict reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, said he organized the gathering to show local governments in other countries that emissions can be cut without harming the economy.(AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, his counterparts in 12 states and regional leaders from four other countries signed a declaration Wednesday pledging to work together to combat global warming, a move Schwarzenegger said will help push heads of state to curb their nations’ greenhouse gas emissions.


An official walks in front of a picture exhibition at the 'African Conference of Ministers in Charge Of Environment On Climate Change Post-2012' in Algiers. African countries adopted Wednesday a united front on climate change, as efforts get underway to negotiate a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an Algerian official said.(AFP/Fayez Nureldine)AFP - African countries adopted Wednesday a united front on climate change, as efforts get underway to negotiate a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an Algerian official said.


Reuters - A champion in the fight against global warming narrowly beat a defender of the U.S. auto industry on Wednesday in a preliminary battle to head the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.

AP - The recent commitments on global warming by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the U.N.’s climate change body said Wednesday.

Peru's Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde (C) and Peru's Minister of Commerce & Tourism Mercedes Araoz (C-L) pose with other foreign and trade ministers in Lima, during the family photo of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministerial Meeting. Climate change is fading as a priority in the Pacific Rim as the gloomy state of the global economy takes precedence, a survey showed.(AFP/Rodrigo Arangua)AFP - Climate change is fading as a priority in the Pacific Rim as the gloomy state of the global economy takes precedence, a survey of opinion leaders showed Wednesday.


AP - Hollywood insiders and climate change experts agree that they can’t shove messages about global warming down audiences’ throats.

Wind turbines turn on Scout Moor near Edenfield in September 2008. MPs have given final approval to a bill committing Britain to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 -- the first country to have such a legally binding framework on climate change.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - MPs have given final approval to a bill committing Britain to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 — the first country to have such a legally binding framework on climate change.


California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008. Governors from Asia, South and North America meet in California this week to share ideas on how to combat climate change and discuss ways to prod their national governments to join the effort. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star — President-elect Barack Obama.


A handout photo from Science shows an iceberg in North Bay, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Runoff from ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland along with melting mountain glaciers have replaced expanding oceans as the main driver of rising sea levels, according to a new study(AFP/HO/File/Pete Bucktrout)AFP - Runoff from ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland along with melting mountain glaciers have replaced expanding oceans as the main driver of rising sea levels, according to a new study.


President-elect Barack Obama pauses during his meeting with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., not shown, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at his transition office in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States and throughout the world. “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America’s leadership on climate change,” Obama said in a video message to governors and others attending a Los Angeles summit on the issue.


US President-elect Barack Obama, seen here on November 17, 2008, vowed on Tuesday he would AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed he would “engage vigorously” in global climate change talks and that denial was no longer an acceptable response to global warming.


President-elect Barack Obama smiles during a meeting in Obama's transition office in Chicago, November 17, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)Reuters - Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States would “engage vigorously” in climate change talks when he is president and pledged, despite the financial crisis, to stick to plans to reduce emissions sharply by 2020.


Berlin's cathedral is illuminated with a light installation reading AFP - Germany and Italy will seek a joint approach to climate change and the environment, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.


President-elect Barack Obama meets with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at Obama's transition office in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The bitter general election campaign behind them, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are seeking common ground on a range of issues in hopes of engendering greater bipartisan cooperation in Washington.


This photo released by G.P. Putnam's Sons shows the cover of 'Arctic Drift', by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. (AP Photo/G.P. Putnam's Sons)AP - “Arctic Drift” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 515 pages, $27.95), by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler: Everything you’ve heard about global warming is true, and it may already be too late to save humanity from mortal peril. The world is on a crash program to curtail its greenhouse gas emissions, driving gasoline prices through the roof. And Canada is about to declare war on the United States.


AP - Greenhouse gas emissions by 40 industrialized nations that signed the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty have dropped an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels, U.N. officials reported Monday.

Brazil's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff (C, background) delivers a speech next to a 100% ethanol powered aircraft made by Brazilian jet manufacturer Embraer, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. An international conference on biofuels involving officials from 40 countries got underway in Brazil on Monday with delegates to consider the issues of development, food security, trade and climate change.(AFP/Mauricio Lima)AFP - An international conference on biofuels involving officials from 40 countries got underway in Brazil on Monday with delegates to consider the issues of development, food security, trade and climate change.


President-elect Barack Obama arrives at a gym in Chicago, November 16, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters)Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama will not attend United Nations talks in Poland next month working on a new treaty for fighting global warming, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Monday.


Steam rises from cooling towers at a power station in 2006. According to UN figures, carbon emissions from the industrialised world in 2006 were higher than at the start of the century, mainly as a result of revived activity by former Soviet-bloc states.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Two weeks before the start of key talks on global warming, the UN’s climate-change watchdog issued figures here Monday that reflected poor headway by industrialised countries towards curbing dangerous carbon pollution.


A farmer prepares to leave his flooded house in Vietnam's southern Mekong river delta, 2002. The United States and Vietnam will jointly study the impact of climate change on the Mekong Delta and other low-lying river regions worldwide.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - The United States and Vietnam will jointly study the impact of climate change on the Mekong Delta and other low-lying river regions worldwide, officials said Monday.


File photo of an iceberg in North Bay, Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. Scientists unveiled Sunday the first direct evidence that massive floods deep below Antarctica's ice cover are accelerating the flow of glaciers into the sea.(AFP/Science/Ho/Pete Bucktrout)AFP - Scientists unveiled Sunday the first direct evidence that massive floods deep below Antarctica’s ice cover are accelerating the flow of glaciers into the sea.


McClatchy Newspapers - RUJIGOU, China — The barren hillsides give a hint of the inferno underfoot. White smoke billows from cracks in the earth, venting a sulfurous rotten smell into the air. The rocky ground is hot to the touch, and heat penetrates the soles of shoes.

Reuters - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered preparations for rising sea levels from global warming, a startling prospect for the most populous U.S. state with a Pacific Ocean coastline stretching more than 800 miles.

AP - The Environmental Protection Agency was blocked Thursday from issuing a permit for a proposed coal-burning power plant in Utah without addressing global warming. The ruling by an agency appeals panel means the Obama administration probably will determine the fate of other similar plants.

Cars drive through thick smog on a street in Beijing in September 2008. Enormous brown clouds of pollution hanging over Asia are killing hundreds of thousands of people, melting glaciers, changing weather patterns and damaging crops, the United Nations said Thursday.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AP - A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday.


AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet leaders of nine central European states on Dec. 6 to discuss their concerns about an EU timetable for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, Poland’s leader said Thursday.

AP - China is aiming to produce virtually all the grain it needs for at least the next decade despite a growing population and declining farmland because of urbanization, climate change and other factors.

Plans for a scientific panel on biodiversity have been knocked back by representatives of 80 countries at UN-sponsored talks in Kuala Lumpur. The panel was intended to be an independent authority on species loss, bringing together experts who can guide governments on the issue, amid warnings about the accelerating rate of extinction and its implications for humans.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Plans for a scientific panel on biodiversity, similar to a Nobel-winning group on climate change, have been knocked back by representatives of 80 countries at UN-sponsored talks.


A man reads a spoof copy of the New York Times with the headline that the Iraq war has ended in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.  About 1.2 million copies of a 14-page Times parody were handed out by 1,000 volunteers on behalf of prankster activists who say they want to make sure the newly elected Obama administration keeps its promises. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Commuters nationwide found out during Wednesday’s morning rush hour that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had ended and global warming, health care spending and the economy’s problems were on their way to being solved.