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us/Thank God for Small Favors!
ByRoss Gelbspan
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U.S. Representative John Shimkus, possible future chairman of the Congressional committee that deals with energy and its attendant environmental concerns, believes that climate change should not co...
us/Big Emitters to EPA: "Don't Ask, Won't Tell"
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AP reports today: “Some of the country’s largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb global warming, don’t want the public knowing exactly ho...
us/Guess Who Pays for All That Tea!
ByRoss Gelbspan
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BP and several other big European companies are funding the midterm election campaigns of Tea Party favourites who deny the existence of global warming or oppose Barack Obama's energy agenda, the G...
us/What kind of Tea are they Drinking Anyway?
ByRoss Gelbspan
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Skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement, here in Indiana and across the country. For some, it is a matter of religious conviction;...
us/World Bank Plows $3.4 Billion into Toxic Asset
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Record sums were invested last year in coal power - the most carbon intensive form of energy on the planet - by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blame...
us/Denial is Not a River in Egypt -- It's a Political Party in America
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All but one of the 48 Republican hopefuls for the Senate mid-term elections in November deny the existence of climate change or oppose action on global warming, according to a report released today...
us/Climate Groups Seek Direction After Demoralizing String of Defeats
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A year ago, these groups seemed to be at the peak of their influence, needing only the Senate’s approval for a landmark climate-change bill. But they lost that fight, done in by the sluggish econ...
us/Carbon Lobby Campaign Targets Color-Blind Readers
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A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn’t an environmental pollutant. The organization “C02 is Green” funded a half-p...
us/US Defense Establishment: No Marching Orders for Skeptics
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While political leaders on Capitol Hill seek definitive answers about how quickly the world’s climate will change, military and national security experts say they’re used to making decisions with l...
us/Americans' Energy Hopes Mix No Better than the Oil and Water in the Gulf
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Overwhelmingly, Americans think the nation needs a fundamental overhaul of its energy policies, and most expect alternative forms to replace oil as a major source within 25 years. Yet a majority ar...
us/"Mad Hatter" Throws a Tea Party for Koch and ExxonMobil
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A group called Balanced Education for Everyone (BEE) is backing an effort to force the Mesa County, Colorado, school board to mandate school instruction of the “other side” of the so-called debate ...
us/NAS Scientists: Stop the McCarthy-ist Attacks on Climate Researchers
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“We call for an end to McCarthy-like threats of criminal prosecution against our colleagues based on innuendo and guilt by association, the harassment of scientists by politicians seeking distracti...
us/New Study Shoots Down Exxon-Massey's Pipedream of Carbon Sequestration
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A new research paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon in the fight against global warming. The document ...
us/When the Skeptics Cry "Global Cooling," It's Proof They Don't Know Their Ash From A Hole in the Ground
ByRoss Gelbspan
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Longer term, sulfur from volcanoes has the potential to cool the Earth. Sulfur reacts with water in the air to form sulfuric acid droplets that reflect sunlight hitting Earth, thus blocking some ra...
us/There's No Accounting for Carbon-Credit Scammers
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The UN’s carbon offsetting scheme has become mired in yet more controversy after the panel overseeing the initiative suspended its third auditor in 15 months. The board of the Clean Development Mec...
us/It Takes More than Dead Trees to Make a Credible Newspaper
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An article in last week’s British paper, The Telegraph, claimed that the IPCC had made yet another significant mistake – this time overstating the sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to drought.  ...
us/Is Canadian Government Muzzling the Messengers?
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A dramatic reduction in Canadian media coverage of climate change science issues is the result of the Harper government introducing new rules in 2007 to control interviews by Environment Canada sci...
us/Intelligent Designers Enlist Climate Skeptics in the War on Reality
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Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects s...
us/Inhofe Wants to Prosecute "Criminal" Scientists
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The US Congress’s most ardent global warming sceptic is being accused of turning the row over climate science into a McCarthyite witch-hunt by calling for a criminal investigation of scientists. Cl...
us/The Storm-Rankled Donald Trumps Al Gore's Snow Job
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Donald Trump has called for Al Gore to be stripped of the Nobel Peace prize he was awarded for campaigning on climate change. The billionaire tycoon said record-breaking snow storms proved that the...