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		<title>Shogun for Waiting</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/07/14/shogun-for-waiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Africa skeptical over funds to combat global warming</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/05/11/africa-skeptical-over-funds-to-combat-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Africa on Tuesday expressed doubt over the capacity of developed nations to keep their financial commitments made during last years Copenhagen summit to help poor countries deal with climate change.&#8221;It;s primordial to know whether the financial pledges will be kept. Doubts have been expressed and we have indications that these doubts are justified,&#8221; Ethiopian Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>..: Ristorante Mystica :.. Iceland volcano panic button</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/04/15/ristorante-mystica-iceland-volcano-panic-button/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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”For an Icelandic volcano this was a relatively small eruption, but there are fears that it could set off the nearby Katla volcano, a far more violent beast capable of inflicting immense damage.
The precedents are not good. In the past 1,000 years, Eyjafjallajökull has erupted three times, in AD920, 1612 and 1821, and each time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bovine gases don&#8217;t contribute to global warming after all, study says</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/04/10/bovine-gases-dont-contribute-to-global-warming-after-all-study-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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The study didn’t factor in the methane produced by cattle or the carbon dioxide as soil erodes, either. All in all, Butterbach-Bahl notes that while his research doesn’t reverse the notion that red meat consumption should be reduced, it does demonstrate that grazing cows aren’t always to blame for global warming.

After carbon dioxide and methane, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iceland prepares for second, more devastating volcanic eruption &#8211; Times Online</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/03/22/iceland-prepares-for-second-more-devastating-volcanic-eruption-times-online-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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The islands worst eruption in modern times was in 1783, when the Laki volcano blew its top. The lava shot to heights of 1.4 kilometres and more than 120 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide was released into the atmosphere.A quarter of the islands population died in the resulting famine and it transformed the world, creating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can charcoal save the world?</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/03/20/can-charcoal-save-the-world-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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The best biochar is made by pyrolysis, according to Kurt Spokas, Ph.D., a USDA-ARS soil scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota. Pyrolysis takes plants, animal manure or any other kind of organic biomass, traps it in an oxygen-free environment and heats it to around 550°C. At the end, you are left with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivia summit to seeks global climate deal</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/03/17/bolivia-summit-to-seeks-global-climate-deal-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Thousands of people, mostly members of social movements and indigenous groups, are expected to attend the People&#38;apos;s World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights from April 20-22.Organizers say it is intended to &#8220;give a voice to the people&#8221; on climate change after the perceived failure of the United Nations-sponsored Copenhagen summit on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>allAfrica.com: Africa: Fears Over Planned Cut in Research Funding</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/03/09/allafrica-com-africa-fears-over-planned-cut-in-research-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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The Swedish government has notified the African Forest Research Network Afornet of its intention to freeze its 20-year old support over what Sweden&#38;apos;s ambassador Ann Dismorr described as &#8220;administrative problems in recent years.&#8221;Mrs Dismorr announced the decision at a conference organised by the network in Nairobi, but explained that the governance problems in the Nairobi-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Climate Process ‘Needs a Good Spanking,’ Yvo de Boer Says &#8211; BusinessWeek</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/03/05/un-climate-process-%e2%80%98needs-a-good-spanking%e2%80%99-yvo-de-boer-says-businessweek/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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“More meetings does not mean success,” de Boer, who steps down from his UN post on July 1, said today at the Carbon Market Insights conference in Amsterdam. “We need to get down to business.”
The Copenhagen summit in December 2009 was a failure even though it was preceded by many meetings, de Boer said. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Legislation: Biochar: Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://africaclimate.org/2010/02/09/environmental-legislation-biochar-examination-of-an-emerging-concept-to-mitigate-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Biochar has multiple potential environmental benefits, foremost the potential to sequester carbon in the soil for hundreds to thousands of years at an estimate. Studies suggest that crop yields can increase as a result of applying biochar as a soil amendment. Some contend that biochar has value as an immediate climate change mitigation strategy. Scientific [...]]]></description>
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