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10:34:52 PM Going to Extremes: How Activists and the Media Distort Climate Reports
Slate

Global warming activists like to cite extreme weather as one of the main reasons that we must take firm action on global warming. No hurricane or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global clima [more]

10:34:52 PM Despite global warming, high glaciers remain safe
Catholic Online - Bakersfield,CA,USA

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) While there is widespread alarm about the effect global warming has on melting the world's polar icecaps, scientists say it will melt far less of the glaciers of Central Asia than of those in other mountain ranges [more]

10:34:52 PM Plant studies miss the full effect of climate change
New Scientist

The finding suggests that such studies may have to be reworked to get a better picture of the effects of global warming. "This is huge," says Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, and a member o [more]

10:26:56 PM US Expert Calls Washington''s Policy on Cuba Absurd
Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba

15 de diciembre de 2011, 16:49Havana, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) US policy hinder the development of normal relations with Cuba, according to Doctor Alan Robock, a professor of Climatology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University [more]

9:13:15 PM Jerry Brown: GOP in 'denial' on climate change
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

Speaking to about 250 scientists, activists, policy officials and Richard Branson, Brown blasted Republicans for being in "absolute denial" about the risks of global climate change. He singled out the conservative Cato Institute of contributing to th [more]

8:22:23 PM Is Global Warming Driving Polar Bears to Cannibalism?
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

Past research by Stirling and others, including Eric Regehr, a polar bear biologist with the US Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, shows that global warming has caused Arctic sea ice to start melting earlier and earlier each summer, ... [more]

8:22:23 PM Calif. governor joined by international climate change officials for
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post (blog) Brown opened the conference by calling for people to wake up to these threats, and called skeptics of global warming a well-funded “cult.” Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be publi [more]

6:04:29 PM Global Warming in 5 steps: How does it affect Wildlife?
Greenfudge.org (blog)

When it comes to global warming, humans have certainly felt the effects, and this year more than ever. With one weather disaster after another hammering the globe (there were a dozen in the US alone that topped the billion-dollar mark for damages), . [more]

6:04:29 PM CSG 'worse than global warming'
Daily Examiner - Australia

Mr Moss said CSG posed a more immediate threat to Australian people than global warming and government resources should be redirected accordingly. He criticised the appointment by Metgasco of Richmond Valley councillor Stuart George, the son of Lismo [more]

5:37:04 PM Opinion: glacial pace of Durban climate talks threatens to undermine
Fresh Business Thinking - Bristol,UK

Fresh Business Thinking ... efficiency will be in a strong position as the near universal drive for greater efficiency continues, and this is likely to have a far greater impact on global climate change than reliance on state funding, as has traditio [more]

5:01:57 PM Has there ever been a semester without a major snowstorm?
University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications - Madison,WI,USA

John Young and Ed Hopkins of the Wisconsin State Climatology Office, affiliated with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, put their heads together and provided some insight. iUW: When was the last December without a significant snowfal [more]

5:01:57 PM US Seasonal Drought Outlook for Dec. 15 to March 2012 (Text)
Bloomberg

By Mike Sebany - Thu Dec 15 13:36:07 GMT 2011 Latest Seasonal Assessment - The drought outlook for December 15, 2011 - March 31, 2012 was based upon climate anomalies associated with La Niña, short to medium range forecasts, climatology, ... [more]

12:36:53 PM Group Blames Global Warming On Increase in Population
AllAfrica.com - Africa

Owerri — A group of discussants in a live radio phone-in programme of Imo Broadcasting Co-operation (IBC),Owerri has attributed the major cause of the global warming to the continued increase in population. The group made up of a demographer Mr. ... [more]

6:18:17 AM Science Settled: New Report- Hurricanes, Global Warming Not Linked
Town Hall

One of the of the most popularized predicted effects of global warming from the models given us by the climate change clowns, increased hurricane and tropical storm activity, has recently been shown to be without merit according to the science and .. [more]

4:53:37 AM Global warming threatens France's precious truffle
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

It is the supply side that is worrying, with global warming an ever more present threats to their success. “You don't market the truffle, you manage its scarcity,” said Jean-Charles Savignac, president of the French Truffle Growers Federation (FFT).  [more]

3:43:59 AM Why do people still deny climate change?
Salon - USA

Suspecting that climatologists weren't up to snuff as mathematicians — physicists think that about everybody — Muller put together the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project (BEST), secured partial funding from fossil fuel-burning interests at .. [more]

1:35:25 AM Ho, ho, no snow? Christmas could be brown this year
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA

A white Christmas is arbitrarily defined as one with an inch or more of snow on the ground, said assistant state climatologist Greg Spoden. In the Twin Cities, about 72 percent of Christmases dating back to 1899 have been white. ... [more]



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