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Game Over for the Climate

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Hansen - May. 11 (Opinion) - 'Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read...that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves 'regardless of what we do.''

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Diageo to end funding of Heartland Institute after climate change outburst

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Leo Hickman - May. 06 - Firm has 'no plans' to work with thinktank following campaign comparing people concerned about climate to mass murderers Diageo, one of the world's largest drinks companies, has announced it will no longer fund the Heartland Institute , a rightwing US thinktank which briefly ran a billboard campaign this week comparing people concerned about climate change to mass murderers and terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson and Ted Kaczynski. On Thursday, a billboard appeared over the Eisenhower Expressway in Illinois showing a picture of Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who in 1996 was convicted of a 17-year mail bombing campaign that killed three people and injured dozens. The caption read: "I still believe in global warming. Do you?" A day later it was withdrawn. The London-based drinks giant, which owns brands such as Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Moët & Chandon, said this year that it was "reviewing any further association with Heartland" following the release online of ...

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Wind farms can increase night time temperatures, research reveals

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Apr. 29 - Study in US claims building of huge wind farms in Texas has increased night temperatures by up to 0.72C Large windfarms can increase local night time temperatures by fanning warmer air onto the ground, new research has revealed. The study used satellite data to show that the building of huge wind farms in west Texas over the last decade has warmed the nights by up to 0.72C. "Wind power is going to be a part of the solution to the climate change, air pollution and energy security problem," said Liming Zhou, at the University of Albany in New York. "But understanding the impacts of wind farms is critical for developing management strategies to ensure the long-term sustainability of wind power." West Texas has seen rapid expansion of wind farms , with turbine numbers rising from 111 in 2003 to 2358 in 2011. Zhou's team compared the land surface temperatures at the wind farms with other areas across this period and detected a clear rise at night. They note, however, that the effect on the ...

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Letters: Shale gas could fracture our renewables policy

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Apr. 24 - It beggars belief that fracking is recommended to be extended and earthquakes the only risk taken into account ( Gas fracking gets the green light , 17 April). Other risks are not just theoretical; appalling consequences have already happened on a wide scale in the US. Fracking has been carried out in rural areas where people's off-grid water supplies have been made unusable by pollution. There have been cases where people cannot use water from the tap at the kitchen sink because methane comes with it, with the risk of explosions. Only half the chemical-laden water used in the process is recovered. It is then kept in lagoons on the surface where it is allowed to evaporate volatile toxic chemicals into the air. We cannot afford the risk to our water supplies. We don't have the open spaces which have been affected in the US. Even now we are faced with water restrictions and drought. We don't have the necessary huge quantities of water available to be used and made dirty for ever. The landscape ...

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Climate scientists are losing the public debate on global warming - Telegraph

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 06:54:06 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Apr. 08 - Green campaigners and climate scientists are losing the public debate over global warming, one of the movement's leading proponents has admitted.

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Rising Temperatures, Rising Health Problems

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:21:00 -0700

Voice of America - Apr. 04 - Scientists say the effects of climate change could actually make breathing more difficult for many people. They expect rising temperatures to bring an increase in cases of asthma and allergies, as well as infectious and cardiovascular diseases. De Capua

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Change climate debate, London says

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:25:00 -0700

United Press International - Mar. 23 - Published: March. 23, 2012 at 7:25 AM LONDON, March 23 (UPI) -- The international community needs to rewire its economy for green energy and stop politicizing the debate, the British energy secretary said. British Secretary of State for Energy and Climat

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Tennessee bill protects teachers who challenge evolution and climate change

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Suzanne Goldenberg - Mar. 21 - State legislature gives legal protection to teachers who do not believe in the science and want to debate alternate explanations The state legislature of Tennessee has given legal cover to public school teachers to challenge the science of evolution and climate change, in a move that looks set to deepen a debate about politicisation of the classroom. The bill passed in the Tennessee Senate this week provides legal protection to teachers who personally do not believe in evolution or the human causes of climate change, and instead want to teach the "scientific strengths and weaknesses of existing scientific theories". It comes at a time when science associations are increasingly concerned by moves to inject religious or ideological beliefs into science teaching ahead of the release next month of a new set of education standards which give a central place to climate change. The new standards, based on recommendations from the National Research Council, are not mandatory for all states. ...

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The Caucus: Romney Misleads on Obama and Energy Prices

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By JOHN M. BRODER - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - In an interview and a Web video, Mitt Romney made misleading or unsubstantiated statements claiming President Obama sought higher gasoline and energy prices.

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Orrin Hatch, fossilized

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - Mar. 17 - By david folland Published Mar 17, 2012 01:01AM MDT When I read Sen. Orrin Hatch’s op-ed (“Boost U.S. oil production,” Opinion, March 4), it evoked the picture of a man speeding down the freeway with head turned backwards, checking to be sure no one was coming up from behind. Indeed, looking to the past, it would appear that expanding oil exploration, as Hatch asserted, would be the best way to lower gas prices. However, ahead of us lies a serious pileup, and we are going to join the crash if we don’t turn our heads and look forward. That accide... ...

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Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:32:00 -0800

The Guardian - Mar. 03 - The scientist who has borne the full brunt of attacks by climate change deniers, including death threats and accusations of misappropriating funds, is set to hit back. Michael E. Mann, creator of the "hockey stick" graph that illustrates recent rapid ris

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Editorial Board: Is the fight against global warming hopeless?

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Editorial Board - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - IS THE FIGHT against global warming hopeless? It can seem so. The long-term threat to the climate comes from carbon dioxide, which lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years , locking in higher temperatures for generations. After decades of effort, only about one-tenth of America’s energy mix comes from renewable sources that don’t produce carbon ...

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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Peter Gleick - Feb. 06 - The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem

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Project to pour water into volcano to make power

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - By editor@mercurynews.com (

By Jeff Barnard

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) - Jan. 15 - Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to live up to its promise.

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Climate change and bark beetles equal billions of dead trees - San Jose Mercury News

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:07:50 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - Jan. 07 - Climate change and bark beetles equal billions of dead treesSan Jose Mercury NewsBy reese halter Recently, one of my colleagues sent me a story that sums up the media's apathetic appetite for covering the environment. It is perplexing and disturbing. The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, despite the rhetoric ...

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Even the Warmists Don't Believe In Global Warming

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By Louis Woodhill - Dec. 29 - It is obvious that even if "climate change" is happening, and even if it is a bad thing, it is not going to be reversed by reducing CO2 emissions.

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How Climate Change Has Driven Evolution

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:40:00 -0800

Time - Dec. 27 - This painting by artist Carl Buell depcits a scene from the late Eocene of North America. A new study shows how climate change drove species diversity in the past. We are the products of our environment — and that goes for egrets and elephants as much as

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Our leadership is dire, but we mustn't despise government | Jeffrey Sachs

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Jeffrey Sachs, The Guardian - Dec. 17 - Our leaderships, in thrall to big business, are failing in so many places all at the same time. But we can't give up on them The year 2011 will be remembered as the year of failed summits. Governments proved themselves time and again to be failures at addressing the growing crises engulfing the world, whether the eurozone debacle, climate change, or budget politics in the US and Europe. Next year is likely to be worse, as electoral politics will further impede decision-making in the US, France and several other countries. Why should governance be so poor in so many places at the same time? There are several factors at play. Globalisation has undermined the manufacturing base of most of the high-income economies, costing millions of jobs and leading to stagnant or falling living standards for a large part of the workforce, especially those with basic skills and modest education attainment. The US has lost around 8-9 million manufacturing jobs since the peak in that sector in 1979, just as ...

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Three-Quarters of Climate Change Is Man-Made

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:23:22 -0800

Scientific American - Dec. 05 - Scientific AmericanThree-Quarters of Climate Change Is Man-MadeScientific AmericanTo separate human and natural causes of warming, the researchers analyzed changes in the balance of heat energy entering and leaving Earth—a new "attribution" method for understanding the physical causes of climate change. Their findings, which are ...Three-quarters of climate change is man-madeNature.comall 2 news articles »

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Attacks on climate scientists are the real 'climategate' | Stephan Lewandowsky

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 23 () - Climate scientists' emails are not a scandal but the attacks on those scientists and a growing anti-science movement are, argues Stephan Lewandowsky Emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit have once again been released on the internet. The timing is similar to the "climategate" scandal of 2009, with emails published just before an important UN climate conference. Does this mean the science is in doubt? Quite the opposite, says Stephan Lewandowsky. An ambulance pulls up behind you. You know it's an ambulance because you can read AMBULANCE in your rear view mirror. But you can also read it when you look at the vehicle directly; because the human visual system has the ability to quickly correct complete inversions or left-right reversals of letters. In fact, a complete inversion is easier to read than letters that are rotated only partially. This human ability to process complete inversions more quickly than just partial distortions, alas, lends itself to ...

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Doubts about climate change drive attack on state air board - San Jose Mercury News

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:08:59 -0800

San Jose Mercury News - Nov. 23 - Doubts about climate change drive attack on state air boardSan Jose Mercury NewsBy thomas d. elias Climate change skepticism by one congressman among California's 53 ordinarily wouldn't matter much. But coming from Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it's now leading to one of the most ...and more »

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Here Comes The Sun

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power. If that surprises you, if you still think of solar power as some kind of hippie fantasy, blame our fossilized political system, in which fossil fuel producers have both powerful political allies and a powerful propaganda machine that denigrates alternatives.

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Ocean acidification is most urgent threat to marine conservation

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Bill Dewey - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - Guest columnist Bill Dewey writes about a new and serious threat to marine conservation and resource management: ocean acidification. The tools and strategies to reverse this trend that is detrimental to marine life are available, proven and even profitable.

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Climate change, beetle may doom rugged pine - The Seattle Times

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:42:52 -0700

Seattle Times - Nov. 05 - Climate change, beetle may doom rugged pineThe Seattle TimesFor many species it's too soon to fully grasp the effects of climate change. For whitebark pine, most signs are troubling. Blister rust, a fungus brought from overseas a century ago, is epidemic. The fungus doesn't always kill, and pockets of trees in ...

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Is Romney really the GOP’s choice?

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Eugene Robinson - Nov. 04 - His ’inevitable’ nomination looks evitable after all.

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