Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: December 2, 2009

Reports Catalogue Worsening Impacts of Climate Change Obama Sets a Target for US GHG Cuts US, India to Cooperate on Clean Energy NY Seeks RFPs for Offshore Wind in Great Lakes NREL Report Relates State Policies to Clean Energy Development Affordable Green Housing Gets Boost from Billion-Dollar Funds California Approves Television Efficiency Standards New Reports Catalogue Worsening Impacts of Climate Change Two recent compendiums of climate change science compiled by leading climate scientists show the impacts of climate change are happening sooner and at a greater magnitude than previously thought. The two reports are the latest attempts to update climate science since the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007. The first new report, released in late September by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is titled "Climate Change Science Compendium 2009," and the second, released in late November by 26 climate researchers, is called "The Copenhagen Diagnosis, 2009: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science." Both are based on published, peer-reviewed climate science. Both reports reach the same conclusions – that Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise at an increasing […]

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