Thursday, May 31, 2012

Global warming skeptics know more about science than climate change

Source: believers
Details: Newstrack India Washington, May 29 (ANI): People who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a slightly higher level of scientific knowledge than those who are worried, according to a new study. The results published in the journal Nature ...

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Reading The Crisis

Source: Tehelka
Details: WHEN SPEAKING to college students about global warming, one question invariably comes up: "What are the possible ways forward?" In climate change literature, the answers to that question falls under three broad heads: technological and/or mainstream ...

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Global warming: Monthly average atmospheric CO2 levels exceed 400 ppm at ...

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: "What's little understood is that our current emissions are on the upper end of the spectrum," said Saunders, whose organization assesses and publicizes potential global warming impacts in the greater Rocky Mountain Region.

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North Carolina Bill Would Require Coastal Communities To Ignore Global

Source: Warming ...
Details: ThinkProgress Sadly, even if this inane bill never becomes law, anti-science forces are already winning the battle to block sensible adaptation to global warming in North Carolina, one of the states most threatened by sea level rise. A coastal economic development ...

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Warming gas levels hit 'troubling milestone'

Source: msnbc.com
Details: WASHINGTON — The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant. Only on msnbc.com AP Updated 42 minutes ago 5/31/2012 9:26:41 PM +00:00 Edwards not guilty on one count; ...

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Study accuses corporations of hypocrisy on climate change

Source: Los Angeles Times
Details: By Neela Banerjee WASHINGTON -- Some major US corporations that support climate science in their public relations materials actively work to derail regulations and laws addressing global warming through lobbying, campaign donations and support of ...

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Sorry Global Warming Alarmists, The Earth Is Cooling

Source: Forbes
Details: Climate change itself is already in the process of definitively rebutting climate alarmists who think human use of fossil fuels is causing ultimately catastrophic global warming. That is because natural climate cycles have already turned from warming ...

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Global Warming to Effect Biodiversity and Microbial Interactions in Polar

Source: Regions
Details: AZoCleantech By Gary Thomas A recent study has emphasized that species in polar regions will be affected by global warming. The change in climatic conditions and warming in the Antarctica and Arctic will have a significant change even in the dominant cyanobacteria ...

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Geoengineering for Global Warming: Increasing Aerosols in Atmosphere

Source: Would ...
Details: Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) — One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from Earth's surface. But scientists theorize that this solar geoengineering could have a ...

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£3m climate justice fund launched to minimise impact of global warming

Source: Scotsman
Details: The scheme, believed to be worth £3 million over three years, is aimed at minimising the impact of global warming on the some of the world's poorest countries. Water projects in Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia are to benefit from the funding, ...

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Irreversible losses caused by climate change highlighted

Source: EcoFriend News
Details: Unless substantial efforts are taken immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage climate resilient development, global warming could exceed 4 and even 6°C. The costs will place a massive burden even on industrialized countries, ...

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Land, ocean animals respond differently to global warming

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: So we will see all sorts of new ecology as species come into contact and interact as never before." The study, published this week in Nature Climate Change, provides insights into why and how species are moving around the globe in response to global ...

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Warming Gas Levels Hit 'Troubling Milestone'

Source: ABC News
Details: The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant. Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas ...

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Global warming won't go away because we're ignoring it

Source: Chico News & Review
Details: If it weren't for my job, I probably wouldn't think about global warming as much as I do. But every day I receive reports in my inbox reminding me that it's real—and getting worse. This week I received an article on a report released toward the end of ...

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Canada's climate change likely greater than global average: IBC research

Source: Canadian Underwriter
Details: Canada will be on the front lines of temperature changes associated with global warming, with much warmer winters and warmer summers, according to a new research report prepared for the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) and commissioned ...

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Disagreements over Global Warming Totally Unrelated to Scientific Literacy

Source: National Review Online (blog)
Details: By Patrick Brennan Unsurprisingly, it turns out that those who reject the scientific consensus on climate change don't do so, as some on the left might suggest, out of lack of intelligence or scientific knowledge. A new study from Yale University ...

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Global Warming Skeptics as Smart as Alarmists, According to New Study

Source: Christian Post
Details: By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter A new study has shown that despite a large promotion of the scientific community accepting the theory of global warming, those skeptical about the issue are no less knowledgeable when it comes to science.

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On Alex Trebek's Jeopardy, Global Warming Skeptics Test Better In Science

Source: Than ...
Details: Forbes Jeopardy champion: "What is one of the peer-reviewed factors distinguishing global warming alarmists from global warming realists?" Jeopardy champion: "I'll take 'Science' for $1000, Alex." Alex Trebek: "The answer is, 'Inferior technical reasoning ...

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Latest statistics show no evidence that global warming is taking place

Source: Irish Times
Details: Yet there is no evidence in these figures to prove that global warming is at play. Met Éireann yesterday released its latest long-term averages for rainfall, hours of sunshine, wind strength and temperature highs and lows. People may seek evidence that ...

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15 Military Leaders Who Say Climate Change Is A National Security Threat

Source: Media Matters for America (blog)
Details: Republicans in Congress are attempting to prevent the military from purchasing alternative fuels, which Senator Inhofe (R-OK) believes are merely "perpetrating President Obama's global warming fantasies and his war on affordable energy.

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On Climate Change, It's Money vs. Mouth

Source: New York Times (blog)
Details: By JOHN M. BRODER A number of major United States corporations publicly support climate change science but contribute heavily to politicians and research groups that deny or play down the threat of global warming, according to a new study from the ...

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Lost photos reveal history of Greenland ice loss

Source: Zee News
Details: The glaciers in southeast Greenland are retreating rapidly with the ongoing global climate change. But now research from the University of Copenhagen has shown that the glaciers can recuperate within a short timeframe if temperatures are to drop.

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At Canadian embassy, global warming protester nears starvation

Source: Bellingham Herald
Details: "I don't want to see him die," Zangas said. "I've seen his health go down and I've seen him become weaker." But McGinley said he was determined to give his life for his cause. "Until enough people are seen dying for it, global warming is not going to ...

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BILDERBERG CONFAB, Climate Change Alarm, Fake Envionmentalism, Worldwide ...

Source: Center for Research on Globalization
Details: by Paul Joseph Watson The attendance of Alberta Premier and global warming alarmist Alison Redford at this year's Bilderberg conference, during which she will discuss "ecological challenges," confirms that Agenda 21 and the bid to re-brand the ...

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A Conservative's Approach to Combating Climate Change

Source: The Atlantic
Details: Many on the left fear increases in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases threaten an environmental apocalypse while many on the right believe anthropogenic global warming is much ado about nothing and, at worst, a hoax.

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Developing Countries' Climate Change Adaptation Costs May Double $100

Source: Billion ...
Details: Energy Collective They urge world leaders to augment and accelerate the pace of global climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts by taking the following four steps: Developed countries continue to urgently pursue mitigation strategies: the drivers of loss and ...

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Global warming sceptics are BETTER-informed about science than believers

Source: Daily Mail
Details: By Rob Waugh Climate change sceptics are often derided as uninformed - but a new study proves that the opposite is the case. Sceptical individuals are slightly MORE science literate than 'believers' in climate change. The difference isn't huge, ...

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'Global warming' relegated to back burner?

Source: OneNewsNow
Details: A climate-change skeptic ponders whether it's time to drum up another eco-scare, seeing as how the debate about global warming is "dead." Marc Morano of Climate Depot says President Barack Obama is not the only one who has removed the terminology from ...

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Birth of denial: Truth, lies and climate change (1)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: Global warming scepticism is not that. It's the complete opposite of that. It's coming to a preconceived conclusion and cherrypicking the information that backs up your opinion. Global warming scepticism isn't scepticism at all.

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Global warming skeptics don't lack science education but have

Source: different 'culture'
Details: GlobalPost A new study at Yale found that climate change deniers are not ignorant about science but rather just use science to fit their cultural values. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Global warming skeptics are not less educated about science but rather use their ...

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

At Canadian embassy, global-warming protester nears starvation

Source: Los Angeles Times
Details: By Ian Duncan WASHINGTON -- On a patch of pavement outside the Canadian embassy, Jay McGinley is trying to starve himself to death. After drinking nothing but water for more than 30 days, he appears close to achieving his goal. When he stands up, ...

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Sunscreen in the Sky? Reflective Particles May Combat Warming

Source: National Geographic
Details: Spritzing a sunscreen ingredient into the stratosphere could help counteract the effects of global warming, according to scientists behind an ambitious new geoengineering project. The plan involves using high-altitude balloons to disperse millions of ...

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Thirty-six years of failure: a brief history of climate change (9)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: "The 1988 conference...put climate change on the global agenda and proposed a specific initial target for a global reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases - 20% below 1988 levels by 2005 - on the way to a much larger ultimate reduction, ...

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Going cold on global warming?

Source: Autocar (blog)
Details: by Hilton Holloway The case for man-made global warming has been stuttering of late. The temperature rises predicted a decade ago have failed to materialise, despite man-made Co2 emissions continuing to rise. According to International Energy Agency ...

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Meet Romney's—and Obama's—Climate Change Advisor

Source: Mother Jones
Details: As with his positions on other hot button issues, Romney's stance on global warming shifted after he started making plans to enter the 2008 presidential race. He went from stating that global warming is real and "human activity is a contributing ...

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Global Warming: The Fuel that is Affecting Weather

Source: Student Operated Press
Details: By Ron G Anselm I wrote a couple of articles on the problem of global warming in the past and I discussed a little about what global warming is, the future trends as global warming increases and what scientist are expecting to happen play by play over ...

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On The Tracks Of Climate Change With The Petrol Bags Deca Campack Plus

Source: 4RFV
Details: In the 80-minute documentary WARMZEIT, director Knut Karger describes the global dimensions of climate change and how working with nature is the only way to secure the future of humanity. In every part of the world, global warming has brought climatic ...

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Climate change is a hoax

Source: Vancouver Sun
Details: Re: Heat could kill 150000 in US cities this century, May 25; Rare British butterfly benefits from man-made climate change, May 25; Earth could warm by more than 3.5 C, leading to extreme weather: research, May 25 Why is The Sun still pushing global ...

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Global Warming Skeptics: Scientific Experts

Source: Dallas Blog (blog)
Details: by Tom McGregor Former Vice President Al Gore has launched a publicity campaign to denounce Global Warming skeptics as so-called scientific ignorant fools so he could sell his questionable alternative energy devices to a naïve public.

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Global warming: Dozens of streams going dry in Kullu

Source: Times of India
Details: MANALI: The debate may be continuing about global warming, but the ground reality here is that dozens of streams and brooks of Kullu district have dried up completely, while many others are about to disappear. Climate change has left dozens of gharats ...

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Study: Global Warming Skeptics Not So Stupid

Source: The Inquisitr
Details: Respondents who were relatively less worried about global warming got 57 percent of them right, on average, just barely outscoring those whose who saw global warming as a bigger threat. They got 56 percent of the questions correct. Global Warming.

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Václav Klaus: It's about freedom

Source: Financial Post
Details: By Václav Klaus On Friday evening I attended a music festival in Prague and during the break I mentioned to a group of people that I was going to Chicago, among other things to speak at a global warming conference. Their reaction was: "Global warming?

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Global warming or heated politics?

Source: Plainview Daily Herald
Details: In fact, they claim many of our current problems can be attributed to this lack of control, and to those who do not believe in global warming. I for one have always taken this with a grain of salt. I remember many years ago going to California one ...

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Global warming skeptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change ...

Source: Fox News
Details: Are global warming skeptics anti-science? Or just ignorant about science? Maybe neither. A study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a ...

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Earth took '10 mn yrs to recover from greatest mass extinction'

Source: Zee News
Details: The end-Permian crisis, by far the most dramatic biological crisis to affect life on Earth, was triggered by a number of physical environmental shocks - global warming, acid rain, ocean acidification and ocean anoxia. These were enough to kill off 90 ...

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Just curious

Source: Calgary Herald
Details: The majority of geologists around the world agree that global warming and cooling have happened repeatedly since the Earth was formed. In all but most recent times, this global warming or cooling happened even though humankind was not yet present on ...

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School Notes from Delhi

Source: The Hindu
Details: It was based on the commitment towards sustainable development for the protection of earth from various threats like deforestation, pollution, carbon emission, depletion of ozone layer, melting of glaciers and global warming.

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Thirty-six years of failure: a brief history of climate change (7)

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: As this series of blogs proceeds, it is helpful to remember that twenty-seven years ago, the world's climate scientists met in Villach, Austria and reached a consensus on what we now call anthropogenic global warming or climate change.

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Global warming winner: Once-rare butterfly thrives

Source: Bend Bulletin
Details: Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science. By Seth Borenstein / The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Man-made climate is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar ...

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Global Warming - Poor, Vulnerable Need Protection

Source: AllAfrica.com
Details: By Jeffery Gogo, 28 May 2012 CLIMATE change and global warming have caused tremendous suffering among the world's poor and vulnerable. The risk for these groups of people is high for numerous reasons, but the biggest is that they are vulnerable; ...

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Obama Silent On Climate Change In Big Iowa Energy Speech

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: The speech never mentions "climate change" or "global warming" or even "greenhouse gases" or "carbon" or even "pollution"! It's a fairly long speech, over half of which is focused on energy, to argue for extending "tax credits that are set to expire at ...

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Cold-blooded climate change surprise

Source: ABC Science Online
Details: Climate change may have a more unpredictable effect on the distribution of cold-blooded animals than scientists had previously thought, a new analysis shows. Marine biologist Dr Amanda Bates and colleagues set out to explore how global warming will ...

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Clean water tops Canadians' enviro concerns

Source: Carman Valley Leader
Details: Only 33% of respondents in a new poll said they "worry a great deal" about global warming and rainforest loss, while 55% said they're very concerned about pollution of drinking water. (FILE/QMI AGENCY) By Daniel Proussalidis, Parliamentary Bureau, ...

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Land and sea species differ in climate change response: study

Source: Phys.Org
Details: The study, published this week in Nature Climate Change, provides insights into why and how species are moving around the globe in response to global warming. Researchers gathered published data from tests determining the physiological temperature ...

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Culture splits climate views, not science smarts

Source: USA TODAY (blog)
Details: Rather, people with technical backgrounds just dig in harder on their views about global warming, finds the study in the Nature Climate Change journal. Overall, technically astute people are more "culturally polarized" than other folks and tend to side ...

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Analysis: United Nations' climate change talks 'sinking like the Titanic?'

Source: GMA News
Details: The fear is that if work plans and agendas are not set by the end of this year at the latest it could have a knock-on effect, holding up the entire effort to avert potentially devastating global warming. United Nations climate talks in South Africa ...

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Earth's period of global warming is a cycle of nature

Source: Coshocton Tribune
Details: Al Gore and a group of his followers of alarmists oppose the use of fossil fuel because they believe that this fuel causes global warming, recently renamed climate change. These people are deceived by lack of information, misinformation and the ...

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Global warming: Inching ahead at Bonn climate talks

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: ... didn't yield much progress in some critical areas, although the delegates did take some steps toward finding a way to extend the Kyoto Protocol and on finding ways to help the most poor and vulnerable countries deal with global warming impacts.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Fending off the climate attack

Source: Times of India
Details: Global warming and climate change have gone beyond being just catchphrases in large parts of India. But the people, especially in the interiors, are striking back - adapting, altering and improvising to beat back the assault. Climate change has come ...

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Climate change increasing weather extremes in Finland

Source: YLE News
Details: Stronger winds, lighter frosts and more storm damage to forests are among the impacts that the Finnish Meteorological Institute expects to see in

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Global warming a myth

Source: Windsor Star
Details: Fact: The foremost proponents of anthropomorphic global warming have twice been caught sending emails to each other admitting that their data show no warming. See "Climategate I and II." OK, what does all that mean to you and me?

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Resolve and evolve

Source: The Hindu
Details: Global warming and climate change have become part of our daily parlance with them affecting key aspects of our lives. But questions on how to combat and minimise the adverse effects of climate change are not easy to come by. In a country like ours, ...

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Waking the giant: Global Warming in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica and sea

Source: level rise
Details: Bay Area Indymedia Climate change is waking up the sleeping giant of Antarctica. Significant scientific research has been published in recent weeks on the impact of global warming on changing wind patterns and southern ocean currents and the flow-on impact on Antarctic ...

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Moab writers dispel apocalyptic fears in 'The Last Myth'

Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Details: By ben Fulton While others herald the end of the world as we know it, whether through the Bible's Book of Revelation or environmentalism's global climate change, Moab writers Mathew Barret Gross and Mel Gilles would rather see the end of our ...

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Climate-change skeptic to talk to 'tea party' groups

Source: Arizona Republic
Details: 25, 2012 09:53 PM The Surprise Tea Party Patriots, which won national exposure this month by continuing to question President Barack Obama's birth certificate, will host a speech by British global-warming skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton on Monday.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

India scores a crucial victory

Source: Times of India
Details: ... India, backed by the Asia Pacific group, claimed a victory at the Bonn climate negotiations with its nominee being declared co-chair of the most important track of climate change talks which will thrash out a new global climate regime by 2015, ...

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Is China a developing country? Key question unresolved in latest round

Source: of ...
Details: Washington Post BONN, Germany — Another round of UN climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor. China wants to maintain a decades-old division ...

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NASA and Obama: Spacing Out On Global Warming

Source: PR Web (press release)
Details: George Jarkesy released an article regarding 49 notable astronauts and NASA employees who believe that NASA is shifting towards politics and away from objective scientific observation and fact regarding global warming. The letter protests that NASA is ...

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Is China poor? Key question at climate talks

Source: The Associated Press
Details: By KARL RITTER, AP – 21 minutes ago BONN, Germany (AP) — Another round of UN climate talks closed Friday without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.

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US cut its carbon emissions in 2011 — but China erased the gains

Source: Washington Post (blog)
Details: Yes, it's true: Americans are slowly starting to tackle global warming. US carbon emissions dropped 1.7 percent last year, according to the International Energy Agency. But that only went so far. Thanks to China's fast growth, ...

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Book review: Michael Mann's 'The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars'

Source: Washington Post
Details: It sparked intense debate over the human contribution to global warming and transformed Mann from a geeky geophysicist into a public fighter in a bruising political and legal war over how to conduct science and public policy. Much of the industrial and ...

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NASA hit for sloppy hyping of global warming

Source: Washington Examiner
Details: NASA and some ex-scientiests are fighting over how the agency addresses global warming. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) Several former top NASA executives and scientists, including Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle managers and astronauts, ...

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Law should include climate change

Source: Stuff.co.nz
Details: It's 2012, polar ice caps are melting, average global temperatures are rising and still New Zealand refuses to deal with climate change. Climate change is the single biggest threat to biodiversity, and with some of the highest and most unusual ...

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Stymied climate talks heat up

Source: Herald Sun
Details: With the mood still strained by the fractious 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, negotiations in Bonn showed developed and developing nations split on apportioning responsibility for tackling global warming. Fast-growing countries like China and India ...

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Kenya's bid to become the first African nation to set up a climate authority

Source: The Guardian
Details: He has drafted a bill to set up an independent Climate Change Authority to advise on adapting to global warming and cutting the country's greenhouse gas emissions. He describes the move as a landmark for the continent – Nigeria is the only other ...

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Global warming winner: Once rare butterfly thrives

Source: Denver Post
Details: Global warming is rescuing the once-rare small British butterfly, according to a study in the journal Science published on Thursday, May 24, 2012. WASHINGTON—Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say.

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Will.I.Am takes helicopter to global warming conference

Source: New York Daily News
Details: I.Am's pledge to fight global warming a bunch of hot air? The Black Eyed Peas rapper, song writer and producer took a helicopter from London to Oxford University to attend an environmental conference on May 21, apparently leaving a larger carbon ...

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Report: China's actions are crucial on climate change

Source: MIT News
Details: As climate negotiators wrap-up talks in Bonn, Germany, this week, a major point of contention is who needs to do what to slow global warming. Nations such as China and the United States have held back from making substantial emission reduction pledges ...

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May 25 Letters: Green subsidies, officers on patrol, global warming

Source: Daily Press
Details: It means be kind to the earth; support ethanol, solar, wind and global warming and probably PETA. It means protect our natural treasurers. My favorite color was always green. I built a solar house. I got the maximum tax credit.

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Watters: The politicians who deny climate change are just full of hot air

Source: Daily Northwestern
Details: By Arabella Watters A refusal to "believe" in global warming always makes me laugh, especially in the year 2012. It's humorous partially because I don't think climate change can quite be equated to other "beliefs," like Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, ...

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Deal with climate reality as it unfolds

Source: Financial Post
Details: By Bob Carter Over the last 18 months, policymakers in Canada, the US and Japan have quietly abandoned the illusory goal of preventing global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, an alternative view has emerged regarding the most ...

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Global warming winner: Once rare butterfly thrives

Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Details: (05-24) 11:01 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. Man-made climate is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar bear. But in the case of the small drab British ...

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Global warming winner: Once rare butterfly thrives

Source: Washington Examiner
Details: Global warming helping the brown Argus is unusual compared to other species and that's why scientists are studying it more, said study co-author Jane Hill, a professor of ecology at the University of York. Biologists expect climate change to create ...

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Death ray: Global warming will kill over 150000 by 2099

Source: Washington Examiner
Details: A new global warming report claims that temperatures will rise up to 11 degrees over this century, killing an additional 150000 or more Americans, and nearly 6000 a year in the Washington-Baltimore corridor by 2099. First to fall, according to a ...

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Countries doing too little on warming - researchers

Source: Moneycontrol.com
Details: By Nina Chestney BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 could rise to nine billion tonnes above what is needed to limit global warming as some countries look set to miss their emissions cut targets, a report by three climate ...

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Climate change could contribute to 17877 deaths in Detroit by end of

Source: century ...
Details: MLive.com By Jonathan Oosting | joosting@mlive.com The report, titled "excessive summer heat," projects that global warming may contribute to as many as 150000 deaths in the United States by the end of the century as temperatures rise between four and 11 degrees ...

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Climate change author wants all babies microchipped in global warming fight

Source: InvestigateDaily
Details: By Haunting The Library In a fascinating insight into the mentality of those who espouse the mantra of catastrophic global warming, writer Elizabeth Moon has a short piece for the BBC in which she argues that everyone should be involuntarily implanted ...

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A dose of planetary medicine

Source: The Guardian (blog)
Details: The field trial sounded innocuous enough: designed to spray water into the atmosphere from a tethered balloon, as part of early experiments to assess what would happen if we were to spray particles into the stratosphere to slow global warming.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Global Warming: More Killer Heat Waves

Source: MedPage Today
Details: The organization projected on the basis of peer-reviewed data that global warming -- expected to increase average temperatures in North America by 4º to 11ºF by 2099 -- will be responsible for an extra 150000 deaths tied to excessive heat events in the ...

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7 Protest Hints For The Global Warming Alarmists of the World

Source: Forbes
Details: The Heartland Institute, for whom I work, has brought climate change experts from around the world to Chicago this week to discuss global warming and its past, present and future impacts. Given that global warming alarmists almost always refuse to ...

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Climate change: Flowering in the greenhouse

Source: Nature.com
Details: Predicting plant responses to increasing temperatures is integral to assessing the global impact of climate change. But the authors of a comparative study assert that warming experiments may not accurately reflect observational data.

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New poll says global warming is not a major environmental concern

Source: 660 News
Details: Colleto says only 17 per cent of those who voted for the Tories in the last federal election voiced concern about global warming; among NDP supporters that number rises to 45 per cent. Global warming concern is also highest in Quebec and pretty much on ...

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Targeting Right-Wing Extremism, Citizens Challenge Corporate Ties

Source: Inter Press Service
Details: Heartland's billboard featured a photograph of Ted Kaczinski, the mass murderer known as the Unabomber, with text, "I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?" Heartland Institute ran the billboard on May 3 but removed the ad a day later.

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Global warming could boost mercury levels in arctic

Source: Tehran Times
Details: The findings imply that concentrations of the toxin may further increase as climate change continues to modify the region's hydrological cycle and release mercury from warming Arctic soils. The "Arctic is a unique environment because it's so remote ...

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Renewable Energy Innovations for Global Warming on 6 - 9 June 2012 at

Source: BITEC ...
Details: Environmental Expert (press release) 23 /PR Newswire Asia/ -- Global warming is the rise in earth's temperature that is creating a serious negative affect on life in the 21st Century. The problem is often made more severe because of natural disasters, and many industrial sectors and ...

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Clean water tops Canadians' enviro concerns

Source: Toronto Sun
Details: OTTAWA — Few Canadians are losing sleep over global warming and the state of the world's rainforests, according to a public opinion survey conducted exclusively for QMI Agency. "Issues that can affect people in their day-to-day lives, like drinking ...

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Global Warming Professors Attack Global Warming Skeptics

Source: YouTube
Details: Read the FULL STORY here: http://psu.campusreform.org/group/blog/video-climate-ethics-prof-global-war ming-skeptics-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity Penn State panelists attack "deniers" Rush Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Christopher Monckton, Fox News, ...

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Clean water tops Canadians' environment concerns

Source: CANOE
Details: By Daniel Proussalidis, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA — Few Canadians are losing sleep over global warming and the state of the world's rainforests, according to a public opinion survey conducted exclusively for QMI Agency. "Issues that can affect ...

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Seagrass meadows are key carbon sinks for combatting climate change

Source: Bay Area Indymedia
Details: It is the first global study to analyze the carbon storage capacity of seagrasses which could aid in mitigating climate change. Seagrass meadows can store up to 83000 metric tons of carbon per square kilometre, mostly in the soils below them.

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Sophisticated simulations predict future warming

Source: Phys.Org
Details: The chances of our planet being hit by a global warming of 3 degrees Celsius by 2050 is as likely as it being hit by an increase of 1.4 degrees, new research shows. Presented in the journal Nature Geoscience, the British study ran close to 10 000 ...

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Global warming alarmism, anyone? The public is cooling to the rhetoric

Source: Human Events
Details: James Inhofe President Barack Obama recently told Rolling Stone that he plans to make global warming a key part of his re-election campaign, but since American families pay more at the gas pump and more for energy in their homes because of this ...

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What lies ahead for international action on global warming for the rest

Source: of ...
Details: Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) When countries meet in Rio+20 they have a choice – they can talk about the actions that should be taken to reduce global warming or they can outline new actions that they'll personally implement. We are way past the point of needing more countries ...

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How Big Oil Benefits From Global Warming Alarmism

Source: Forbes
Details: I find it somewhat comical when scientists and others who publicly express skepticism about a looming man-made global warming catastrophe are accused of being in the pocket of Big Oil. Here we are referring to oil and gas… master resource trade ...

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Atmospheric Warming Intensifies Earth's Water Cycle

Source: RedOrbit
Details: Dr. Durack, a post-doctoral fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, stated, "These changes suggest that arid regions have become drier and high rainfall regions have become wetter in response to observed global warming.

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Eastern Europe succumbs to EU´s climate change doctrine - Klaus

Source: Czech Happenings
Details: Chicago - East European countries are somewhat corrupted by the European Union on global warming issues, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Monday at the international conference on climate change organised by the Heartland Institute.

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Global warming could boost mercury levels in Arctic

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: At this point we can only speculate as to how the mercury enters the river systems, but it appears that climate change may play a large role," says Jacob. "As global temperatures rise, we begin to see areas of permafrost thawing and releasing mercury ...

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More plant species responding to global warming than estimated

Source: domain-B
Details: Far more wild plant species may be responding to global warming than previous large-scale estimates have suggested. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists, which included a UC San Diego biologist, that found that many plant species, which appear ...

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Monday, May 21, 2012

Climate change hits globe's water cycle

Source: UPI.com
Details: LIVERMORE, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- The Earth's dry lands are getting drier and wet ones wetter as climate change shifts and accelerates the globe's water cycle, US researchers say. Changing patterns of salinity in the global ocean during the past 50 ...

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Global warming: Bonn talks focus on developing climate treaty and

Source: finding ...
Details: Summit County Citizens Voice Basically, most of the world has agreed that it's necessary to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius to prevent irreversible and potentially catastrophic impacts. The main way to do that is to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

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Ancient Methane Released from Arctic Ice Melt May Intensify Global Warming

Source: IBTimes.co.uk
Details: The study documented in the recent edition of the journal, Nature Geoscience, mentions that the release of the ancient gas can hasten the process of global warming. Methane is one of the most important non-CO2 greenhouse gases and is responsible for ...

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ICAR: Rise of temperature not a cause of worry for agriculture

Source: Times of India
Details: NEW DELHI: Though no immediate adverse impact of global warming is visible in India as manifested by rise in output of foodgrains and milk, experts feel the country should draw sharp strategy to deal with its long-term effect.

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Pollution in thunderclouds increases global warming

Source: TG Daily
Details: Pollution is leading thunderstorm clouds to capture heat, increasing global warming in a way that climate models have failed to take into account. It strengthens them, causing their anvil-shaped tops to spread out high in the atmosphere and capture ...

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Global warming myth or fact?

Source: NewsDay
Details: Hence in the US one can quickly find The Heartland Institutes latest propaganda piece: a mugshot of Ted Kaczynski next to the words, I still believe in Global Warming. Do you? Heartlands not-so-subtle subtext: If you think the climate is changing, ...

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G8: Leaders open up vital new front in the battle to control global warming

Source: Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Details: These substances – including black carbon (soot), methane, ground-level ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons – are responsible for about half of global warming. Straightforward measures to address them, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme ...

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Mystery behind rising sea levels unlocked

Source: Zee News
Details: Global sea levels rose by an average of 1.8mm per year from 1961-2003, according to data from tide gauges. But the main question is how much of

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ICAR calls for effective strategy to counter global warming

Source: India Today
Details: India needs to draw a sharp strategy to deal with its long-term effect of global warming, experts from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have warned, although saying that no immediate adverse impact is visible on the country as ...

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Can Global Warming Be Contained? A Multi-Media Answer

Source: Living Green Magazine
Details: You are here: Home » Climate Change » Can Global Warming Be Contained? A Multi-Media Answer MapsofWorld.com has created the mother of all infographics with its Fry-Day Poll: Can Global Warming Be Contained? Click on the link to see a thoroughly ...

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Emissions cut hiatus slows work to limit warming

Source: Reuters
Details: By Nina Chestney | BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Reluctance to raise ambitions to cut greenhouse gas emissions due to economic constraints is threatening progress towards limiting global warming, delegates at United Nations' climate talks in Germany warned ...

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Millennia old methane released by Arctic melt could affect climate

Source: change ...
Details: allvoices By arkar One of the main contentions of scientists arguing to curtail Global Warming is that if this phenomenon were ever to reach alarming proportion, which it is dangerously inching towards, sea polar ice could melt, in turn raising sea levels and ...

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Reformation in the 'Church of Global Warming'

Source: Longboat Key News
Details: The Church of Global Warming — or is it climate change or maybe climate disruption — is currently enduring a crisis of belief somewhat akin to the time when, in 1517, Martin Luther engaged in his theological carpentry at the All Saint's Church in ...

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Liberals push corporate America to flee global warming critic

Source: Washington Examiner
Details: Groups favoring action to stem climate change and global warming are pushing firms to stop supporting skeptic Heartland Institute. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Emboldened by its success in bullying some corporate donors to quit a group pushing ...

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More evidence that global warming drives extreme weather

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY —There's been a lot of discussion recently about how TV weather forecasters handle the issue of global warming — to the point that a watchdog group — ForecastTheFacts.org — has started singling out what it sees as the ...

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Let's hope that climate change denial evaporates into stupidity

Source: Athens NEWS
Details: A recent speaker at Ohio University, Dr. Robert M. Wagner, made the claim that the global warming debate is largely founded on disinformation, and that there is a widespread conspiracy to disseminate that disinformation. I am a complete convert to this ...

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Obama and NASA: Spacing Out on Global Warming

Source: Town Hall
Details: Recently NASA's Administrator, Major General Charles Bolden came out politically siding with the President on the issue of man-made global warming. With all respect to General Bolden, who was an astronaut himself,

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Swedes skeptical of global warming

Source: Herald and News
Details: The US can often seem like something of an outlier when it comes to politicians and climate change. After all, it was major news in the campaign when former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman tweeted that he trusts "scientists on global warming.

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Phlogging Phlogiston: The Real Origins Of Global Warming Hysteria

Source: The Market Oracle
Details: Global warming lives on in the minds, or at least the somber pronouncements of leading politicians, corporate chiefs and some opinion manipulators, but is now essentially dead. To quickly reach the status of a Great Cause it was necessary to decorate ...

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'The Great Big Book of Horrible Things': WWII and Climate Change

Source: ABC News (blog)
Details: What our great failure in the 1930s may teach about facing the rapid assault of manmade global warming (Or "Hell is the truth seen too late.") Matthew White uses it elegantly in the title of his fascinating new, big and easy-to-read reference book.

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Climate scientists say they have solved riddle of rising sea

Source: AFP
Details: Global sea levels rose by an average of 1.8 millimetres (0.07 inches) per year from 1961-2003, according to data from tide gauges. But the big question is how much of this can be pinned to global warming. In its landmark 2007 report, ...

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Fact Sheets: Fact Sheet: G8 Action on Energy and Climate Change

Source: Newsroom America
Details: ... G8 Leaders recognized that the development of and universal access to environmentally safe, sustainable, secure, and affordable sources of energy is essential to global economic growth and to their overall efforts to address climate change.

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Saturday, May 19, 2012

Climate change in Labasa

Source: Fiji Times
Details: Global Warming or Climate Change is the measurable increases in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses. Scientists believe Earth is currently facing a period of rapid warming brought on by rising levels of heat-trapping ...

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Climate change action now an afterthought

Source: Bangkok Post
Details: That's not because the problem has gone away or that the situation is showing even the slightest improvement because of the strong measures pledged by world leaders in Pittsburgh on global warming, which included the promise to ''spare no effort to ...

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New-age novelty?

Source: Deccan Herald
Details: It's because the modern method of meat production is a major contributory factor in global warming and environmental degradation. When global warming is mentioned, most people envisage oil refineries, coal-fired powered plants, cars or smoke belching ...

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About the euro, and global warming, it turns out the 'thought criminals'

Source: were ...
Details: Telegraph.co.uk We saw it in spades as the promoters of "consensus" on global warming took over the commanding heights of the scientific world – such as the Royal Society, Nature, the universities (on a sea of climate-change related funding).

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Pollution warms atmosphere by teaming up with thunderclouds

Source: Zee News
Details: How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear. To find out, researchers need to incorporate this new-found warming into global climate models. Pollution strengthens thunderstorm clouds, ...

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Global warming: Researchers say recent temperature trends in Australasia

Source: are ...
Details: Summit County Citizens Voice By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY —Studying tree rings, ice cores and corals, a research team from the University of Melbourne identified the fingerprint of mankind in an unprecedented warming trend that's unprecedented in the Earth's recent history.

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Monrovia's website hacked in the name of global warming

Source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Details: The hacked website, by a person or group identifying itself as "LatinHackTeam," urged readers to follow its hack team on Twitter and to "stop global warming." With the aid of their consultant, city officials restored the website at about 9 am Friday.

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Accelerated climate change vs. Sierra snowpack

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: One of my goals for joining the board was to educate others about climate change. I understood what global warming would mean for California's snowpack in the future and wanted to make sure we factored that in to our allocation decisions.

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ESSAY: Global warming: So what?

Source: Virginia Gazette
Details: However, he misses the central issue concerning the global warming debate. The debate is not about science. It is about taking some scientific research and contorting it to fit a biased political agenda of the liberal Democrat Party.

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Friday, May 18, 2012

LETTERS: Reasons for global warming denial

Source: The Reporter
Details: I was very pleased to read Michael Mann's piece in The Reporter on May 14 on the reality of global warming in response to Merrill Kratz's recent diatribe on this topic. Despite the fact that Dr. Mann provided a convincing rebuttal to the erroneous ...

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Battle of the climate-change billboards rages on

Source: Mother Nature Network
Details: After the Heartland Institute compared global warming to the Unabomber, two climate activism groups decided to strike back. By John PlattFri, May 18 2012 at 12:30 PM EST Only in America. Two weeks after the Heartland Institute erected billboards ...

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Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet

Source: Reuters AlertNet
Details: Until now, despite mounting pressure and numerous attempts to reach an agreement on a post-Kyoto protocol, there is no global consensus on how to continue reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE), the primary culprit of global warming.

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Global warming strikes Al Gore's personal life

Source: Investor's Business Daily
Details: By ANDREW MALCOLM He's still into global warming; it's very lucrative, you know. But now the chunky failed politician has a new girlfriend. Life is short. The divorce from Tipper can wait. Unlike President Obama's composite girlfriend, however, ...

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Is the holocaust denial/climate change denial comparison apt?

Source: ScienceBlogs (blog)
Details: One article in particular from Micha Tomkiewicz, who is himself a holocaust survivor, has earned the ire of climate denialists around the web because in addition to the comparison of the tactics of global warming denialists and holocaust deniers, ...

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Global warming driving African mussel to Algarve

Source: The Portugal News
Details: Global warming and the rising sea water temperatures could be behind the expansion of a new type of mussel native to Africa to the Portuguese coast, a group of researchers from the Algarve University (UAlg) have revealed.

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So much for truth on global warming

Source: Salisbury Post
Details: I would like to thank the Post for printing the recent article "No debate: global warming is real" which "cleared up" all of the controversy related to manmade global warming. It was my understanding that alligator fossils found in Alaska and ocean ...

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Global warming: USGS studies try to localize climate modeling data to

Source: predict ...
Details: Summit County Citizens Voice One of the biggest puzzles for resource managers is how global warming will affect stream flows and water supplies. July 2011 high water on the Blue River in Breckenridge was followed by one of the earliest runoff seasons on record in 2012.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Global Warming Scary For Plants

Source: The Ledger
Details: By Charles Reynolds Some people believe the concept of climate change, also called global warming, is a plot cooked up by tree-hugging liberals to get everyone else to stop treating planet Earth like a trash heap. But governments and multinational ...

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The Effects of Global Warming being Felt in the US

Source: OilPrice.com
Details: By Climate Progress | Thu, 17 May 2012 22:28 | 0 In a recent PBS documentary, the mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Fraim, talks about how flooding has become a monthly occurrence in his town, and how global warming and sea level rise are as much a ...

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High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide add to global warming concerns

Source: Mainichi Daily News
Details: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration levels have been measured at over 400 parts per million (ppm) in Japan for the first time, raising global warming fears, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has announced. An official of the JMA said, ...

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Demystifying Global Warming

Source: The Market Oracle
Details: At its simplest and most basic, global warming theory (called "anthropogenic global warming" theory or AGWT) is as idiot-friendly as the official story of what happened on September 11, 2001 in the USA. Five airplanes were hijacked by dangerous Islamic ...

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Himalayas warming faster, facing severe climate change impact: Study

Source: Economic Times
Details: The researchers claimed that the rise in temperature in the Himalayas is three times greater than the increase in global average of temperature during the same period. "Our study reaffirmed that the Himalayas are indeed experiencing rapid climate and ...

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Commentary: Bittman thinks global warming is “What's For Dinner”

Source: CattleNetwork.com
Details: If you're eating beef for dinner, you're contributing to global warming. So, if you want to be a hero, stop eating meat. That's the message from Mark Bittman in his opinion column published online yesterday by The New York Times.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Jekyll And Hyde: Climate Change Denial And Preparedness In Corporate America

Source: Science 2.0
Details: You'll quickly find The Heartland Institute's latest propaganda piece: a mugshot of Ted Kaczynski next to the words, "I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?" Heartland's not-so-subtle subtext: If you think the climate is changing, you're no better ...

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Giving The Global Warming Bully A Free Pass

Source: Forbes
Details: One should keep this question in mind when reflecting on the Heartland Institute's global warming billboard featuring Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. The Heartland Institute, for whom I am a senior fellow, did not seek my input prior to its decision to put up ...

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When Global Warming Hits Home (Literally)

Source: ThinkProgress
Details: Part of this alarming change is due to the natural sinking of the area's soggy tidal lands, but part of it is due to the rising sea levels brought about by global warming. Like stranded polar bears in the North Pole, like disappearing island nations in ...

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Global warming update

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Details: The most recent world climate report by the National Climate Data Center states that globally those first four months were the coolest such period in four years. As for April, while things were cooling down somewhat around here, ...

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How will global warming impact water availability?

Source: UPI.com
Details: The US Geological Survey studied how warming trends could impact water basins around the nation. UPI/Stephen Shaver WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- A general increase in average temperatures means there's less snowmelt feeding river basins in the United ...

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What Was Global Warming ?

Source: The Market Oracle
Details: Relatively soon, this question will be asked: global warming has traced a wipeout curve like any failed Great Cause, mixing junk science, porkbarrel politics, cash-gouging corporate greed and deliberate promotion and falsification of any real danger or ...

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Climate deal milestones should be set this year - UN

Source: Reuters India
Details: Last year's UN climate talks in Durban, South Africa, agreed a package of measures which would eventually force all the world's polluters to take legally binding action to slow the pace of global warming. Delegates agreed on the so-called "Durban ...

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Global warming? Blame those gassy sauropods

Source: Post-Bulletin
Details: By Kelli Plasket A new study says sauropods may have contributed to Earth's warmer climate during the Mesozoic era. Around 200 million years ago, Earth was 18 degrees warmer than it is now. That might be a bit hot for humans, but it was just right for ...

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Today's letters: Who's to blame for global warming?

Source: National Post
Details: As both authors note, scientific research has proven beyond a doubt that such activity results in global warming, and hence in climate change. An important aspect of this issue that is not generally realized, however, is that not all of the changes in ...

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A decade of evidence against Catastrophic Global Warming

Source: Troy Media (blog)
Details: Days later, a furor was kicked up in Alberta when Wildrose leader Danielle Smith publicly questioned human-caused climate change theories. One Calgary political commentator mocked Smith expressing the odd view that . . . "issues of global warming are ...

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UK climate experiment cancelled on patent concerns

Source: Reuters India
Details: By Nina Chestney | LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have abandoned an experiment to test the possibility of spraying particles into the upper atmosphere to stem global warming, largely due to concerns over a patent for some of the technology, ...

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Jerry Moore: Unabomber billboard was an experiment in stupidity

Source: Suburban Life Publications
Details: So, they slapped a close-up of Ted Kaczynski on an electronic billboard May 3 in Maywood overlooking Interstate 290 with this statement: "I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?" The billboard displaying the Unabomber was supposed to be the first in ...

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Global Warming, Redux

Source: World Policy Institute (blog)
Details: The Medieval Warming Period of the 17th century had a profound effect on the course of civilization. Today, with another global warming period on the horizon—this one accelerated by human activity—national futures may again be driven by the rapidly ...

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Globally Warmed Over: Hatred Unmasked at Last

Source: American Thinker
Details: Having been outlasted by reality in the pseudo-science of "global cooling," undone once again in the pseudo-science of "global warming," and ultimately laughed off the stage in the unfalsifiable quackery of "global climate change," it is apparently ...

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Global warming: New statistical analysis trys to pinpoint temperature ...

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: "One of the criticisms from climate-change skeptics is that different climate models give different results, so they argue that they don't know what to believe,"said Noel Cressie, professor of statistics and director of Ohio State's Program in Spatial ...

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Global warming to affect fish guts

Source: 3News NZ
Details: By 3 News online staff Global warming may cause some stocks of fish species to decline, while others may grow. The gastrointestinal system of fish is much more sensitive to rises in sea temperatures than previously thought, according to new research.

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Scientists Develop Method for Measuring CO2 to Fight Global Warming – in

Source: the ...
Details: CleanTechnica Should nations of the world ever see fit to sign a treaty limiting emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, scientists from the University of Utah and Harvard have developed a way to verify compliance. Using measurements from three ...

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Climate change in the American mind: March 2012

Source: National Center for Science Education
Details: The latest survey on the American public's beliefs and attitudes regarding global warming offers few surprises. "Overall," the executive summary of Climate Change in the American Mind: Americans' Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes in March 2012 ...

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Global warming increasing by 400000 atomic bombs every day

Source: The Vancouver Observer (blog)
Details: In a must-see TED talk, NASA climate scientist James Hansen say the current increase in global warming is: "...equivalent to exploding 400000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day 365 days per year. That's how much extra energy Earth is gaining each day.

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How Are Birds In The Arctic Dealing With Global Warming?

Source: AZoCleantech
Details: With climate change affecting the entire globe, especially the polar regions, how are different species adapting to the change in temperature? An international team led by a CNRS researcher from the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology has ...

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As global warming advances, risky responses gain a following

Source: MinnPost.com
Details: By Ron Meador | 08:12 am A British chemical engineer, Peter Davidson, presented a webinar early this morning on his strategy to combat global warming: Fog Earth's upper atmosphere with paint particles, streamed from giant balloons, to reflect sunlight ...

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Meteorologists Chris Landsea and Joe Bastardi respond to Heartland

Source: billboard ...
Details: Washington Post (blog) In 2005, Landsea resigned from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) because he felt 1) its lead author on Observations, Kevin Trenberth, "push[ed] an unsupported agenda" connecting hurricane activity and global warming in a public forum ...

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UN global warming talks heat up again

Source: The Province
Details: A new round of global climate talks opened here Monday with rich and poor countries squaring off over green-house-gas reduction targets to halt the pace of planet warming. As UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urged all states to turn political ...

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Scientists seek answer to beetle, global warming trend

Source: Herald and News
Details: The conifer, with its accoutrements, represents a small salvo in the battle against a beetle infestation, fueled partly by warmer temperatures. But it is also a larger symbol of how researchers from the Forest Service — in concert with National Park ...

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Swedish pols skeptical of warming

Source: Salt Lake Tribune
Details: After all, it was major news in the campaign when former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman tweeted that he trusts "scientists on global warming." It was such a controversial assertion that he later walked it back. "Six of 10 local politicians in Sweden doubt ...

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Global-warming policies and the threat to US

Source: WND.com
Details: By Kevin Mooney WASHINGTON – Contrary to what Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told an environmental organization earlier this month, the threat to America's geopolitical standing comes not from global warming but from anti-energy global warming policies ...

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My Turn: Global warming is real

Source: Salisbury Post
Details: Global warming is a fact and human activity is a big part of the current warming. There is no debate or doubt amongst the scientific community. The scientific evidence is readily available online at NASA, NOAA, EPA, National Academy of Science, ...

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Measuring CO2 to fight global warming

Source: Eureka! Science News
Details: If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of Utah and Harvard. Using measurements from only ...

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Trees absorb less CO2 than believed- Global warming - Climate change

Source: Cherry Creek News
Details: Until now, Oren said, scientists assumed that as the climate warms, growing seasons would lengthen and forests would absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. "Our findings mean that lengthening growing seasons with global warming will not ...

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UN meets to discuss global climate treaty

Source: USA TODAY
Details: Figueres said Monday that the cuts in greenhouse gas emissions pledged so far fall short of what scientists say is needed to avoid serious effects of global warming. By Schalk van Zuydam, AP UN climate official Christiana Figueres speaks at a climate ...

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Measuring CO2 to fight global warming: Scientists develop way to enforce ...

Source: Phys.Org
Details: Credit: Lee J. Siegel, University of Utah If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of Utah ...

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Lagos Youths Unite To Fight Climate Change

Source: P.M. News
Details: The youths have created a lot of awareness through the clubs on the need to mitigate the impact of climate change. Essays were written on the dangers of climate change by the students and the need to fight global warming which is fast taking over the ...

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Climate talks open in Bonn to tackle emissions targets

Source: AFP
Details: BONN, Germany — A new round of global climate talks opened in Bonn on Monday with rich and poor countries squaring off over greenhouse gas reduction targets to halt the pace of planet warming. As UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urged all states ...

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Sunscreen in the Sky to Curb Climate Change?

Source: Discovery News
Details: Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing global warming. On this, there is, outside of the denialist fraternity (members of whom will doubtless be posting in the comments section of this article), near-unanimity.

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News bites: The latest on Chesapeake energy, protecting forests from

Source: global ...
Details: The Hill (blog) The Washington Post reports that federal officials are trying to protect forests that are under assault from beetle infestations driven by global warming. Bloomberg reports that oil has fallen to its lowest level in 2012. Reuters looks at the growth of ...

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Global warming claims all hot air, says speaker at OU

Source: Athens NEWS
Details: Photo Caption: Dr. Robert Wagner of the group Conservative Cavalry gives a presentation on why he doubts humans are causing global climate change. About 20 people showed up to the talk Thursday. Dr. Robert M Wagner of the group Conservative Cavalry ...

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Major breakthrough in climate change research

Source: UQ News
Details: He says that while glaciers have been used as an early indicator of the extent and rate of global warming, there was previously an assumption that they always reflected climatic change. "But there has been some debate on how much of the mountain ...

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Natural disasters: Global warming helping heat up geo-political climate

Source: The Express Tribune
Details: By Ahsan Nisar Federal Secretary Climate Change Muhammad Javaid Malik said that Pakistan is among the eight top countries, which are most vulnerable to climate change. KARACHI: There must be something terribly wrong up in the air.

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Global warming: Interim climate talks start in Bonn

Source: Summit County Citizens Voice
Details: By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — Global warming will once again take the center of the world political stage this week, with interim climate talks in Bonn, Germany, aimed at trying to nail down a few more details on agreements reached in principal at ...

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Global warming threatens pine forests, forcing federal officials to shift

Source: strategy
Details: Washington Post Scientists know that global warming will reshape these forests, which provide crucial habitat and food for key species, curb soil erosion and slow melting snow destined for local water supplies. What they don't yet understand is which trees are best ...

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Scientist sheds light on global warming issue

Source: The Reporter
Details: An individual by the name of Merrill Kratz did a disservice to your readers in his recent letter published in The Reporter ("Thoughts on Global Warming," May 10). Rather than engaging in the worthy debate to be had regarding what to do about ...

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Global warming report doesn't convince all

Source: Newstalk ZB
Details: Not everyone is convinced by a new report on global warming, warning of blistering heat waves, violence and even death in Sydney. But John Perry from Holroyd Council insists there are holes in the research. "You get periods of hot weather and you get ...

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Bracing for tough climate talks

Source: Malaysia Star
Details: THE global climate change negotiations resume in Bonn today, for the first time since the turbulent annual conference of the parties in Durban last December. The Bonn talks will be closely watched by the world public, since the climate situation seems ...

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India to oppose EU's climate protocol move

Source: Economic Times
Details: The new protocol, as the EU demands, will kickstart the process to have a new global deal within three years that would bind India and other emerging countries to a similar level of legally binding commitment to reduce emissions while ignoring the ...

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Mount Everest Update: Dangerous Conditions, Cancelled Expeditions,

Source: Global ...
Details: About - News & Issues By Stewart Green, About.com GuideMay 13, 2012 The Himalayan Mountains in central Asia and Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the range and in the world, is one of the front lines for global warming in the world. Most climate scientists agree that ...

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Geoclima participates in development of world's first HFO chiller

Source: AME Info
Details: The trio of companies worked together to solve one of the HVAC industry's most pressing quandaries - the development of a unit integrating an innovative new refrigerant that lowers Global Warming Potential (GWP), operates safely and efficiently, ...

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Climate change is here, there and everywhere

Source: Record-Searchlight (blog)
Details: Thanks to global warming, sea level is rising. And the ocean does not care what politicians think in nearby Washington, DC As the glaciers melt and the oceans warm, the volume expands and the ocean levels rise. And every month or so Norfolk floods.

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Joshua Keating: Many Swedish politicians skeptical of global warming

Source: Lincoln Journal Star
Details: The United States often can seem like something of an outlier when it comes to politicians and climate change. After all, it was major news in the campaign when former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman tweeted that he trusts "scientists on global warming.

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Economic meltdowns, global warming, and no end to Guantanamo: How the world

Source: is ...
Details: Daily Mail By AP In a world weary of war and economic crises, and concerned about global climate change, the consensus is that President Obama has not lived up to the lofty expectations that surrounded his 2008 election and Nobel Peace Prize a year later.

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Warming's final mystery: clouds

Source: China Daily
Details: By Justin Gillis (The New York Times) IT IS The greatest remaining mystery in climate science: How will clouds change with global warming? Most scientists believe that clouds will probably have a neutral effect or even amplify the warming, ...

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Global warming affects original cultivated cereal crops

Source: Jerusalem Post
Details: Although farmers know better than ever how to grow food, global warming may indirectly affect our diet by diminishing the amount of available nutritients. A 28-year comparative study of wild emmer wheat and wild barley populations has revealed that ...

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Heartland-ish! Anti-Climate-Change Think Tank Equates “Warmers” With

Source: Unibomber
Details: Living Green Magazine The digital billboard pictured here was up for one day, and shows the shining countenance of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber and apparently a man of firm convictions about global warming. It compares nature-loving Americans who believe that climate change ...

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Global warming? Just blame it all on tyrannosaurus toots

Source: London Free Press
Details: By IAN GILLESPIE, The London Free Press The world of science is abuzz with news that researchers believe dinosaur farts may have caused global warming 200 million years ago. The study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, ...

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Dinosaurs called first creators of global warming

Source: Plain Dealer
Details: A new study in the journal Current Biology suggests that sauropods produced enough methane to help make an already warm Earth warmer. LOS ANGELES - Dinosaurs' gassy guts may have contributed to global warming tens of millions of years ago, according to ...

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Lawrence Solomon: Green power failure

Source: Financial Post
Details: Global-warming-related catastrophes are increasingly hitting vulnerable populations around the world, with one species in particular danger: the electricity ratepayer. In Canada, in the UK, in Spain, in Denmark, in Germany and elsewhere the danger to ...

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Murdock: NASA veterans to agency: Cool it on global warming

Source: The Times Herald
Details: By DEROY MURDOCK NEW YORK — To the long list of right-wing, knuckle-dragging know nothings who dare question so-called "global warming," environmentalists now can add six Apollo astronauts, two rocket men who flew aboard Skylab, and a pair of former ...

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Global warming threatens tourism site

Source: Daily Monitor
Details: However, Mr Wilson Isingoma, a tour guide at the site says pro-longed droughts resulting from climate change and global warning have continued to dry up water from the rocks; affecting water dripping, a scenario that threatens the tourism potential of ...

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Lighting strikes on rise for warmer climate: Experts

Source: Daily Star Online
Details: The climate vagaries caused by global warming are increasing the recurrence of lightning strike in Bangladesh, the sub-continent's most vulnerable country to this natural hazard, experts say. Several hundred people fall victims to lightning strikes ...

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Climate clash: Corporate giants caught as groups skirmish

Source: msnbc.com
Details: Some corporate giants are caught in the middle of a battle between a think tank skeptical of manmade global warming and an environmental group that it is trying to undermine its financial health. On one side is Forecast the Facts, which was founded ...

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Heartland Institute Loses More Corporate Donors Over Global Warming

Source: Billboard
Details: Minyanville.com As part of an anti-climate change campaign, the institute put up a billboard in the western Chicago village of Maywood, Illinois last week that featured "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and the caption, "I still believe in global warming. Do you?

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When Global Warming Hits Home (Literally)

Source: Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Details: In a recent PBS documentary, the mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Fraim, talks about how flooding has become a monthly occurrence in his town, and how global warming and sea level rise are as much a daily issue for him as education and fighting crime.

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Kristen Stewart Plane Mix Up Ignites Global Warming Debate

Source: TheImproper.com
Details: By TheImproper, May 11th, 2012 Kristen Stewart was spotted getting into the wrong private jet in Paris, but what started out as a humorous story is turning into a debate over global warming and celebrity hypocrisy. Although Stewart is making joint ...

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Carbon tax pointless, says miner

Source: Brisbane Times
Details: Tony Haggarty: 'Global warming doesn't get solved by an Australian carbon tax.' Photo: Peter Rae THE head of Australia's largest coal company, Tony Haggarty, has denounced Australia's carbon tax as ''pointless'' and said he is sceptical about human ...

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Climate change juvenilia; Robbins made his mark

Source: Syracuse.com (blog)
Details: By The Post-Standard Editorial Board Last Friday, puzzled Chicago drivers saw the face of Theodore J. Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, gazing down from a billboard that also carried the message: "I still believe in global warming, do you?

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Spacemen to NASA: Cool it on global warming

Source: Washington Times
Details: By Deroy Murdock To the long list of right-wing, knuckle-dragging know nothings who dare question "global warming," environmentalists can add six Apollo astronauts, two rocket men who flew aboard Skylab and a pair of former directors of the Johnson ...

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Tracking the global warming disinformation campaign

Source: Washington Times
Details: These statements are understandable coming from the spokesperson for an agency that clearly makes it their business to propagate global warming scares. Unfortunately, the English-language Swedish paper that reported the story didn't hesitate to utilize ...

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Teens Sue Government for Global Warming

Source: The New American
Details: They hold government responsible for global warming because it hasn't reduced national emissions of carbon dioxide. The teens filed suit in the US District Court in Washington, DC, which is scheduled on Friday to hear motions to dismiss the case.

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Global warming law and Metropolitan Water District rates: A followup

Source: North County Times (blog)
Details: My article about the potential $10 million to $50 million annual cost to Metropolitan Water District from California's global warming law, AB 32, drew an aptly critical response from Larry Farwell of Santa Barbara. He wanted to know more about just how ...

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