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Todd Stern talks to CNN’s Robyn Curnow about the politicalization of climate change in the US.

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Spiegel Online reports here: There seems little possibility that next month’s climate summit in Durban will produce an emissions reduction agreement — meaning the world will soon lack any binding CO2 targets. Europe may soon find itself alone in the fight against global warming.

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BBC News reports here: Climate change poses “an immediate, growing and grave threat” to health and security around the world, according to an expert conference in London.

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AFP reports here at Yahoo News: BONN – On the heels of another halting round of talks on climate change, UN scientists this week will review quick-fix options for beating back the threat of global warming that rely on technology rather than political wrangling.

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Spiegel Online reports here: The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keeps going up and up, but public interest in climate change is sinking. Environmentalists are trying to come up with new ways to make the issue sexy. But shock tactics can backfire all too easily.

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BBC News reports here: Climate extremes of hot and cold will become more common and this will put strain on people’s hearts, doctors say.

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BBC News reports here: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world’s science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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