U.S. offers climate carrot — with strings

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks to reporters Thursday at the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, joined on stage by Todd Stern, the chief U.S. climate negotiator. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks to jumpstart the U.N. climate talks, saying the U.S. would help raise $100 billion a year to help poorer nations if a broader pact is reached.




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A police officer beats a protester at a road block during a demonstration outside the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.U.N. climate negotiators look to the U.S. to bring fresh ideas to try to salvage a bare-bones political agreement by the end of the week on controlling global warming.




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Dec. 16: Talks at the international climate summit came to another full stop Wednesday as thousands of protesters took to the streets in Copenhagen.  (Nightly News)A warning to delegates in Copenhagen: If you're looking for President Barack Obama to cave to pressure and deepen U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gases, don't bet on it.




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FILE - In this June 28, 2002, file photo, a helicopter used by the Bureau of Land Management rounds up wild horses near Cold Creek, Nev. An animal protection group asked a federal judge Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009, to block a plan to round up about 2,500 wild horses to remove them from a Nevada range. The mustang roundup planned for Dec. 28 would be one of the largest in Nevada in recent years. Federal officials plan to use helicopters to force the horses into holding pens before placing them for adoption or sending them to long-term holding corrals in the Midwest. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)An animal protection group asked a federal judge Wednesday to block a plan to round up about 2,500 wild horses to remove them from a Nevada range.




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A new study using fossils and sediment from 125,000 years ago says the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to melt faster, raising sea levels more than earlier predicted. This NASA satellite data shows how Greenland's ice sheet changed between 2003 and 2005. Low coastal regions (blue) lost three times as much ice per year from excess melting and icebergs than the high-elevation interior (orange/red) gained from excess snowfall.Global warming in this century might raise sea levels more than expected in future centuries, says a study that looked at what happened at a time when Neanderthals roamed Europe.




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The driver of a luxury sedan of the Bahamas delegation exits his vehicle outside a hotel in the center of Copenhagen on Tuesday.If they fail to reach a climate deal in Copenhagen, world leaders flying in their private jets and huddling in five-star hotels will have little to show beyond a big carbon footprint.




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A special electric plug is used to recharge Toyota's Prius plug-in hybrid in a Tokyo showroom. Toyota says it will market an "affordable" plug-in car in 2011, upping the ante on General Motors and Nissan.Automakers are promising that affordable plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be available in the next couple of years, but a new report contends that it will be decades before the fuel savings and lower emissions make up for the high cost of batteries.




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Snow covers LED traffic lights in Green Bay, Wis., earlier this month.Cities around the country discover energy-efficient traffic lights don't burn hot enough to melt snow covering them — a problem blamed for dozens of accidents and at least one death.




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The United States is counting on cows to help reduce its carbon footprint. The Obama administration unveils an agreement with the dairy industry to reduce the industry's greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020, mostly by capturing the methane from cow manure.




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