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Several media outlets are reporting a donneybrook in Denmark as the Copenhagen climate summit attendees grapple with a leaked document.

The UK’s Guardian reports:

You know an issue is serious when it gets the suffix “gate” added to it.

“Climategate” seems to be sticking in the media for the publication of stolen email and program documents we covered in our story Climate Email Hacked.

Even more significant: parodies are popping up:

The special meeting on climate at the United Nations Tuesday produced strong rhetoric, but no breakthroughs.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the meeting in advance of a December deadline. That's when talks in Copenhagen are supposed to produce a new treaty to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

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President Obama is expected to propose new fuel efficiency standards Tuesday as part of a broader goal of limiting pollution and greenhouse gases.

It would be the first time an attempt to reduce greenhouse emissions is linked to federal fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.

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With two $15 million grants, scientists and engineers aim to revolutionize solar cells and provide the fundamental science for geological storage of greenhouse gases as part of two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) established at The University of Texas at Austin by the U.S.

Department of Energy (DOE). The White House announced the creation of 46 [...]

Greenhouse gas emissions under the direct control of The University of Texas at Austin decreased about 6 percent from 2004 to 2006, placing the university in the mid-range of comparable universities that have completed inventories, an inventory of the main and J.J.

Pickle Research campuses has shown. The inventory identified and quantified the major sources of [...]

Mudslides that followed the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the U.S. Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may release an amount of carbon-dioxide in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a new study shows.

Mudslide near the epicenter of the [...]

AUSTIN, Texas—A chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is part of a team that has developed a chlorine-tolerant membrane that should simplify the water desalination process, increasing access to fresh water and possibly reducing greenhouse gases.

“If we make the desalination process more efficient with better membranes, it will be less expensive [...]

I will be frantically busy for the next week, so blogging will be light.  One last thought before the blackout:

A few months ago, I argued against the very vocal campaign to ban plastic bags in Austin.  I argued that the save-landfill-space argument was dumb.  I argued that the reduce-petroleum-and-therefore-greenhouse-gases argument was dumb.  No one offered a c