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Australia ratified the Kyoto protocol, leaving the United States the only major industrialized country not to do so.
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China and France signed a bilateral pact to fight against climate change together.
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Australia’s new Prime Minister pledged to sign the Kyoto Protocol, leaving the US as the only major economy which still opposes the agreement, scientists warned that poor people will bear the brunt of climate change, and Oxfam found that more than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, in a study Sunday that largely blamed global warming.
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It was reported that UK newspapers report on climate change 3 times as much as the US, and they did it more accurately.
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The town of Orme, Tennessee, which has suffered from a prolonged drought, announced that it had run out of water.

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The UN reported that we may be passing the point of no return.
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A Fox News anchor speculated that Al-Qaeda might have started the fires in California.
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Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, waived several environmental laws to resume building the Mexico border fence; meanwhile President Bush announced he will ask Congress to approve a $500 million package to help Mexico fight drug cartels, the largest international anti-drug effort by the United States in nearly a decade.
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The amount of Carbon Dioxide being absorbed by the world’s oceans has decreased, and rising sea levels were reported to threaten 21 major cities by 2015.

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A survey found that most Americans now believe that humans are causing global warming, and that we should do something about that.
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The Ozone Layer shrunk by a third this year.
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A recent gallup poll found that 72% of the US population are either ‘Completely Convinced’ or ‘Mostly Convinced’ that “global warming is happening”.
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President George W. Bush skipped all events related to the UN discussions on global warming, except for dinner, because he was holding his own summit later in the week.
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Biofuels, championed for reducing energy reliance, boosting farm revenues and helping fight climate change, may in fact hurt the environment and push up food prices, a study suggested on Tuesday.
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Melting ice in the Arctic revealed previously unknown islands that have yet to be claimed.
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A bunch of naked people stood around on a glacier to promote awareness about climate change.

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Leonardo DiCaprio made a movie about the environment.
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Scientists debunked a scientist’s claim that for meat-eaters, driving is better for the environment than walking.
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The United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization warned that record-breaking weather extremes have been recorded in almost every continent this year, with global land temperatures reaching their highest levels since records began in 1800.
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Scientists pointed out that if you eat meat, it’s probably better to drive your car than to walk.
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