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...their own preferences this year. Chris was thinking about voting for Obama. "I just like him," she said. Her husband Martin was leaning toward Bill Richardson, citing the New Mexico Governor's humorous ads. This may dismay wonks, who want voters to choose the candidate with the best carbon-pollution-auction plan, but it is how elections are usually decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trudging Through Iowa | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Although quantum cascade lasers are already used to study carbon dioxide concentrations, the new chip with the allows researchers to monitor many different gases at the same time, said research associate Mikhail A. Belkin...

Author: By Maeve T. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tiny Chip Could Solve Real-World Problems | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...former Vice President spoke shortly after European Union officials had resorted to an unusually public show of anger by threatening to boycott U.S.-sponsored climate talks in Washington next month to protest the Bush Administration's opposition to negotiating over setting limits on carbon emissions. Earlier in the day Ivo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) told reporters that he feared the summit could fail to conclude an agreement before it closes on Dec. 14. De Boer, as a U.N. official, couldn't be so blunt as to name the culprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is America the Villain in Bali? | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...carbon footprint from the signing rigmarole threatens to overshadow the E.U.'s own strong work in addressing climate change through emission caps. Indeed, the double summit comes just days after Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Prize for his his work on global warming, and at the same time as the high-level meeting on climate change in Bali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The EU Treaty's Flying Circus | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

...European leaders jetting across the continent fades, there are more enduring travel idiosyncrasies in the E.U. The European Parliament, for example, is split between Brussels and Strasbourg. While the Lisbon and Brussels events are estimated to add between 10 and 15 extra tons of CO2 to the E.U.'s carbon footprint, around 20,000 tons are produced every year by the Parliament's commissioners, officials and aides journeys back and forth to Strasbourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The EU Treaty's Flying Circus | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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