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		<title>Why COP15 was an important milestone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dr Joe Smith  is feeling optimistic. Luckily for humanity the climate change last chance saloon seems to have no fixed closing time. But while most media and policy commentators have savaged the UN and international policymakers for failing to come to a convincing deal I’ve come away from two weeks in the Danish capital holding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing is agreed until everything else is agreed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr Stephen Peake Over the past week or so, a great deal of routine housekeeping work has been achieved on various agenda items under the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol. The texts of most of this work are now, as is customary, bracketed (this is how Governments signal discontent with the texts) and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dodgiest of dossiers &#8211; Dr Vincent Gauci reacts to Daily Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to David Humphrey&#8217;s post  &#8220;Is Global Warming Natural?&#8221;, Dr Vincent Gauci also offers reaction to today&#8217;s Express article&#8230;   &#8220;The Express’ lead story reports on the dodgiest of dossiers produced by the European Foundation.  Records show that there are big natural changes over a range of time scales that are closely related to observable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is global warming natural?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Daily Express gives 100 reasons why global warming is natural. One of our scientists offers his own view: Dr David Humphreys says: &#8220;First, it is necessary to differentiate between climate and weather. Even if the world’s climatic system was completely stable with no increase or decrease over time in the mean global temperature, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COP15 playlist on OU&#8217;s YouTube channel</title>
		<link>http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-COP15/?p=410</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dedicated playlist for COP15 has been launched on The Open University&#8217;s YouTube channel. On it, Dr Stephen Peake gives a tour of the conference, and Dr Joe Smith talks about his new project, Creative Climate. The OU&#8217;s dedicated channel on YouTube contains bite sized extracts from a wide range of courses, plus videos of research, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable energy in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liezel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COP15 presents a new focus for international debate and decisions about energy and its use. Godfrey Boyle discusses what the countries of Western Europe are doing to promote sustainable energy production. His album on iTunes U looks at the future energy map of Europe and questions whether energy policy is principally a scientific issue or a political one. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is $10 billion a big number?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liezel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr Stephen Peake There are two crucial elements to the climate negotiations. The first is nations’ pledges to reduce greenhouse gases (e.g. 20, 30, 40, 50% by 2020,30,40,50 etc). The second is how much cash the developed countries are prepared to commit to help developing economies reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NHS climate change challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-COP15/?p=365</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liezel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Open University is a partner in a new research project to design and deliver hospital environments that respond to our changing climate. The NHS, which manages more than 14,000 sites, is facing a particular challenge. It needs to protect patients, carers and visitors from excess temperatures, but standard mechanical ventilation solutions or air conditioning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COP 15: The hum of expectation</title>
		<link>http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-COP15/?p=362</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Stephen Peake writes about the atmosphere of COP15 in its first few days, from a bride and groom honeymooning there, to the various demonstrators and media gathering at the conference&#8230;   The atmospheric pull of COP 15 begins the instant I leave home. The taxi driver thinks it’s all too late (only a population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith in climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OU-COP15/?p=355</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yoseph Araya, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Science   Human-induced climate change poses a grave risk to all inhabitants of the Earth &#8211; flora, fauna and us. There is overwhelming evidence it’s happening and the future impacts will be even more severe. The recent demonstrations ahead of COP15 are just one indicator of peoples’ concern and their demand for international action. [...]]]></description>
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