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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/?service=Rss" target="_blank">The Independent - Climate Change RSS Feed</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Climate Change</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/9023b37/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cclimate0Erow0Escientist0Econtemplated0Esuicide0E1892260A0Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;The scientist at the centre of the &quot;climategate&quot; row contemplated suicide after hackers leaked his emails suggesting that he was selectively releasing information to fit his theories of climate change.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' heigh..." target="_blank">Climate row scientist \'contemplated suicide\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The scientist at the centre of the \"climategate\" row contemplated suicide after hackers leaked his emails suggesting that he was selectively releasing information to fit his theories of climate change.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8fff078/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cthinktanks0Etake0Eoil0Emoney0Eand0Euse0Eit0Eto0Efund0Eclimate0Edeniers0E18917470Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00314/splash_314948k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change scie..." target="_blank">Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8f9ff09/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cun0Eclimate0Echange0Eboss0Erajendra0Epachauri0Evows0Eto0Eresist0Epressure0Eto0Equit0E1890A2880Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt; A high-profile error in an international report on climate change does not undermine the scientific case for man-made global warming, the head of the United Nations\' panel on the issue insisted today. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' height=\'1\' ..." target="_blank">UN climate change boss Rajendra Pachauri vows to resist pressure to quit</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:37:46 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('A high-profile error in an international report on climate change does not undermine the scientific case for man-made global warming, the head of the United Nations\' panel on the issue insisted today.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8f8ed8e/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cclimate0Echange0Eshoot0Ethe0Emessenger0Endash0Enot0Ethe0Emessage0E18899410Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00313/Pg-14-climate-chang_313541k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt; It was supposed to have been a small side event at th..." target="_blank">Climate change: shoot the messenger ? not the message</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('It was supposed to have been a small side event at the Copenhagen climate conference but it quickly turned into an ugly slanging match that eventually had to be resolved by burly security guards escorting one of the protagonists from the room. But for Stephen Schneider, a veteran climatologist, it was yet more evidence of the deeply divisive nature of climate science.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8f07654/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cscientist0Ein0Eclimate0Erow0Espeaks0Eout0E18876330Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;the scientist at the centre of the &quot;Climategate&quot; controversy last night denied claims that he covered up flawed data about rising world temperaturs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' height=\'1\' src=\'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/378..." target="_blank">Scientist in climate row speaks out</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('the scientist at the centre of the \"Climategate\" controversy last night denied claims that he covered up flawed data about rising world temperaturs.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8ec910f/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cclimategate0Escientist0Ehid0Eflaws0Ein0Edata0Esay0Esceptics0E18864870Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;The &quot;climategate&quot; controversy intensified last night when the senior British scientist at its centre, Professor Phil Jones, faced fresh accusations that he attempted to withhold data that could cast doubt on evidence for rising world te..." target="_blank">Climategate scientist \'hid flaws in data\', say sceptics</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The \"climategate\" controversy intensified last night when the senior British scientist at its centre, Professor Phil Jones, faced fresh accusations that he attempted to withhold data that could cast doubt on evidence for rising world temperatures.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8ec75ff/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cglobal0Ewarming0Emakes0Etrees0Egrow0Eat0Efastest0Erate0Efor0E20A0A0Eyears0E18863420Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00310/forest_310768k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Forests in the northern hemisphere could be growing faster now than..." target="_blank">Global warming makes trees grow at fastest rate for 200 years</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Forests in the northern hemisphere could be growing faster now than they were 200 years ago as a result of climate change, according to a study of trees in eastern America.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8e7c3db/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cbritain0Eprotests0Eover0Efalse0Emelting0Eglacier0Eclaims0E18851570Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;Britain has officially expressed its concern to the UN\'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about lax scientific procedures used by the body which supplies the world with the facts about global warming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\'..." target="_blank">Britain protests over false melting glacier claims</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Britain has officially expressed its concern to the UN\'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about lax scientific procedures used by the body which supplies the world with the facts about global warming.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8e7c3da/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cclimate0Eemails0Ehacked0Eby0Espies0E18851470Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00309/Dr_Rajendra_Pachaur_309685k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to t..." target="_blank">\'Climate emails hacked by spies\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government\'s former chief scientist. Sir David King, who was Tony Blair\'s chief scientific adviser for seven years until 2007, said that the hacking and selective leaking of the unit\'s emails, going back 13 years, bore all the hallmarks of a co-ordinated intelligence operation ? especially given their release just before the Copenhagen climate conference in December.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8e602c2/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cmiliband0Ewarns0Eagainst0Eclimate0Echange0Ecynicism0E18847730Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt; Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband issued a warning that recent controversies over scientific data must not be allowed to undermine efforts to tackle global warming. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' height=\'1\' src=\'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c..." target="_blank">Miliband warns against climate change cynicism</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:38:26 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband issued a warning that recent controversies over scientific data must not be allowed to undermine efforts to tackle global warming.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8db23ae/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cscience0Csimulated0Evolcanoes0Eand0Emanmade0Esun0Eblocks0Ecan0Erescue0Ethe0Eplanet0E18813360Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;It would be 100 times cheaper to shield the Earth from sunlight with a man-made &quot;sun block&quot; than to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. This is one of the reasons why the world needs an international project to investigate ways of safely..." target="_blank">Simulated volcanoes and man-made \'sun blocks\' can rescue the planet</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('It would be 100 times cheaper to shield the Earth from sunlight with a man-made \"sun block\" than to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. This is one of the reasons why the world needs an international project to investigate ways of safely manipulating the global climate in addition to cutting greenhouse gases, scientists have said.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8c9d1c5/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Ca0Edistraction0Eof0Ehimalayan0Eproportions0E1876420A0Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00303/himalayas-main_303290k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;It was one of the most startling predictions in climate sci..." target="_blank">A distraction of Himalayan proportions</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('It was one of the most startling predictions in climate science. By 2035 the great glaciers of the Himalayas were supposed to have largely disappeared, threatening the water supplies of tens of millions of people who rely on the ice to feed the great rivers of Asia, from the Indus and the Ganges in the west to the Brahmaputra and the Yangtze in the east.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8c5c93e/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cworld0Casia0Ccreating0Eglaciers0Eout0Eof0Ethin0Eair0E18754720Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00302/Pg-31-himalayas-get_302331k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;At times, the moonscape land of Ladakh can appear as d..." target="_blank">Creating glaciers out of thin air</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('At times, the moonscape land of Ladakh can appear as dry as a desert. In this most northerly part of India, tucked high in the Himalayas, there is virtually no rainfall and almost 75 per cent of the local farmers rely on meltwater from the glaciers to irrigate their once-a-year crops.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8c1647a/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Chimalayan0Eglacier0Emelt0Eoverstated0E18742290Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00301/pg-26-glacier-getty_301385k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;The UN panel of climate scientists yesterday expressed..." target="_blank">Himalayan glacier melt overstated</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The UN panel of climate scientists yesterday expressed regret for exaggerating how quickly Himalayan glaciers are melting in a report that wrongly projected that they could all vanish by 2035.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8c37521/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cfinnish0Ewinters0Eless0Eicy0Eby0Ecenturys0Eend0Estudy0E187440A70Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00301/shutterstock_43_8eb_301541k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Freezing weather could be a thing of the past in parts..." target="_blank">Finnish winters less icy by century\'s end: study</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Freezing weather could be a thing of the past in parts of Finland by the end of the century as climate change leads to rising temperatures, Finland\'s Meteorological Institute said Tuesday.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8b8e307/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Copinion0Ccommentators0Cmichael0Emccarthy0Ecameron0Eis0Esticking0Eto0Ehis0Egreen0Eguns0Edespite0Ethe0Erisks0E18719690Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;It\'s not quite up there with Princess Diana shaking hands with an HIV sufferer, in 1987, when Aids was still a subject of panic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' height=\'1\' src=\'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8b8e307/mf.gif\' border=\'..." target="_blank">Michael McCarthy: Cameron is sticking to his green guns despite the risks</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('It\'s not quite up there with Princess Diana shaking hands with an HIV sufferer, in 1987, when Aids was still a subject of panic.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/86b9f8b/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cthe0Esinking0Esundarbans0E18622670Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00292/1picture-1_292341k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt; With Copenhagen, Obama?s cap-and-trade bill, and numerous gree..." target="_blank">The sinking Sundarbans</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:40:24 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('With Copenhagen, Obama?s cap-and-trade bill, and numerous green policy initiatives coming out of Westminster, climate change is finally receiving the attention it deserves in a policy sense. But the plight of people whose lives have already been devastated by climate change has received surprisingly little attention. Fortunately, photojournalist Peter Caton?s new exhibition of photographs from the Sundarbans region in India helps to redress this.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/86a60e9/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cscience0Cfusion0Ebreakthrough0Ea0Emagic0Ebullet0Efor0Eenergy0Ecrisis0E18642750Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt; Sceptics and environmentalists may be locked into endless arguments around global warming, but there\'s little debate that an energy crisis looms large. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' height=\'1\' src=\'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/8..." target="_blank">Fusion breakthrough a magic bullet for energy crisis?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:51:29 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Sceptics and environmentalists may be locked into endless arguments around global warming, but there\'s little debate that an energy crisis looms large.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/863c017/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cbraving0Ethe0Ebig0Echill0Emeet0Ethe0Eheroes0Eand0Ethe0Evillains0E18633510Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00293/snowdeer_293090k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Proof that, if there\'s a few quid to be made, people will steal ..." target="_blank">Braving the big chill: Meet the heroes... and the villains</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Proof that, if there\'s a few quid to be made, people will steal anything, came in from many places. From Cumbria on Friday arrived a report that someone had emptied a grit bin and then tried to sell the contents to other residents. Soon this story was being replicated around the country, with Torfaen County Borough Council in South Wales, among others, saying it had reports of people turning up in large vehicles or vans and practically emptying grit bins within minutes of their being filled. And, from Walsall, came news that not only the grit but entire bins were being stolen.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/863c016/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cthe0Ebig0Efreeze0E20A10A0Ean0Eaudit0E1863350A0Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00293/splash1_293081k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Bitter north-east winds compounded the misery for icy Britain this..." target="_blank">The Big Freeze 2010: An audit</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Bitter north-east winds compounded the misery for icy Britain this weekend as forecasters predicted the Arctic weather could last another 10 days, making this the coldest winter the country has endured since the notorious winter of 1962/3.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/860c42d/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0Cchina0Esays0Eit0Eachieved0Eits0Egoal0Ein0Ecopenhagen0Eclimate0Edeal0E186270A90Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt; Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China\'s environmental plans, its top climate envoy said today. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'..." target="_blank">China says it achieved its goal in Copenhagen climate deal</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:19:21 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China\'s environmental plans, its top climate envoy said today.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/85ffff0/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cenvironment0Cclimate0Echange0C16310A0Abn0Ewind0Efarm0Eplan0Eheralds0Egreen0Eenergy0Eera0E18623920Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;Revolutionary plans for a massive expansion of offshore wind farms have been unveiled in a £100bn project designed to usher in a new era of green energy for Britain. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=\'1\' height=\'1\' src=\'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/26..." target="_blank">£100bn wind farm plan heralds green energy era</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Revolutionary plans for a massive expansion of offshore wind farms have been unveiled in a £100bn project designed to usher in a new era of green energy for Britain.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/859c47c/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cuk0Chome0Enews0Croad0Eusers0Egrit0Etheir0Eteeth0Eas0Esalt0Esupplies0Edwindle0E18613970Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00291/Pg-06-grit-pa_291432k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Stocks of salt needed to keep Britain\'s roads open have run..." target="_blank">Road users grit their teeth as salt supplies dwindle</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Stocks of salt needed to keep Britain\'s roads open have run perilously low, the National Grid said it was struggling to cope with the record demand for gas, and factories in the North-west of England and the East Midlands will today have their fuel supplies temporarily suspended, as forecasters warned there was no sign of a let-up in the Arctic temperatures.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/852dfab/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cbusiness0Cnews0Cenergy0Euk0Ehas0Eenough0Egas0Efor0Eanother0E650Edays0E1860A1350Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;p&gt;Demand for gas hit an all-time high yesterday during the UK\'s longest cold snap for more than 20 years. Demand rose to 453 million cubic metres (mcm), smashing the 449mcm record set in January 2003. And it is forecast to climb to 460mcm today.&l..." target="_blank">Energy: UK has enough gas for another 65 days</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Demand for gas hit an all-time high yesterday during the UK\'s longest cold snap for more than 20 years. Demand rose to 453 million cubic metres (mcm), smashing the 449mcm record set in January 2003. And it is forecast to climb to 460mcm today.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/266/f/3780/s/852dfaa/l/0L0Sindependent0O0Cnews0Cuk0Chome0Enews0Canother0Etwo0Eweeks0Eof0Ethe0Ebig0Efreeze0Estill0Eto0Ecome0E1860A1340Bhtml/story01.htm" title="&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00290/snow_290448k.jpg&quot; style=&quot;padding-right:5px;margin-right:5px&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; &lt;p&gt;Freezing conditions will continue for another two weeks with another ..." target="_blank">Another two weeks of the big freeze still to come</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Freezing conditions will continue for another two weeks with another major snowfall expected to blanket parts of Britain on Sunday and Monday when up to 20cm is forecast. Yesterday more than 1,500 schools were closed and thousands of hospital operations cancelled as nearly half the workforce stayed at home. Train services were badly hit while fears rose that councils were running out of grit to keep roads open.');
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