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White House taking on climate change skeptics
The White House and the Environmental Protection Agency are taking on critics of climate change. The EPA says greenhouse gases threaten the public health and safety of every American, and the announcement could pave the way for future regulation. Our Jim Acosta has the report from Washington.
E-mails cast doubt on climate change research
The e-mails and allegations that the global warming threat may be exaggerated could have a major impact on climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this week.
Ground zero for the climate scandal has been Britain's University of East Anglia. Our John Roberts went directly to the source to dig deeper on this story.
Arctic explorer arrives in Antarctica
Editor’s note: Arctic explorer Eric Larsen is trying to make it to the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest in 365 days as part of an effort to raise awareness about climate change. Larsen joined us on American Morning before he set out on his Save the Poles expedition. Below is an excerpt from his online journal.
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By Eric Larsen
From EricLarsenExplore.com
None of us could believe our luck at the warm (relatively) weather and blue skies. So perfect were the conditions that we were more worried about sunburn than frostbite.
Antarctica! The place where my dreams have lived for so long. From our small temporary outpost nestled close to the Patriot Hills themselves all I can see is ice and sky. To feel important here is to simply ignore the vastness and grandure of this place. This is truly one of the last great frozen places left on the planet.
Being here now, I realize, I must double my efforts. This snowscape is so delicate. No longer immutable to change Antarctica, faces a dire fate unless we act now to reduce carbon emissions.
My fate is equally tied to this place for the next two months. What will I learn? How will I change? Right now there is still too much work to do before flying to our starting point at Hercules Inlet to be philosophical. TIA – this is Antarctica.
Harrison Ford brings star power to green issues
Program Note: Watch the full interview with Harrison Ford on CNN's "Your $$$$$," Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m ET.
He didn't bring a bullwhip or a fedora, but Harrison Ford brought his star power to a cause close to his heart: climate change.
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Ford joined the president of Guyana and executives of Starbucks, SC Johnson, Wal-Mart, Harrah's, Wrigley, Conservation International and others to launch Team Earth, a "global sustainability movement."
Think of it as the companies, environmentalists and politicians together trying to outrun the massive rolling boulder that is climate change.
"You have to create a movement," Ford told me, after a Team Earth press conference in Manhattan. "Like the civil rights movement, like the anti-war movement, like the youth movement of the 60's. If we can come together as an efficient mass, the issues will be addressed."
Ford is particularly concerned about deforestation and notes that more than 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are because of destruction of the rainforests.
Ford spoke on the eve of a climate change summit at the United Nations, where the presidents of the two largest greenhouse gas emitters – the U.S. and China – will address the world on the issue. In Pittsburgh later this week, leaders will negotiate a framework for addressing climate change ahead of a critical summit in Copenhagen in December.
It's a lot of politics and process and, well, talking. Environmentalists like Ford are trying to seize on the momentum heading to Copenhagen.
Smarter than the average bear
A group of scientists in Florida is trapping black bears. They're hoping to learn more about how they live and feed. The goal is to protect the animals, improve their quality of life and hopefully keep them out of people's backyards.
As CNN's John Zarrella reports, the hunt involves high-tech GPS collars – and low-tech desserts.
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