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11:36:22 PM 11 Questions for Obama’s Science Team
New York Times - United States

The problem is not global climate change or energy issues. It is the stigma that American students have with learning science, math, and technology. ... [more]

11:25:14 PM Idaho climatologist to lead state network of precipitation observers
Latah Eagle - Potlatch,ID,USA

BY BILL LOFTUS Idaho's state climatologist is inviting residents to join a citizen science network that will monitor precipitation statewide. ... [more]

10:38:14 PM Dissent, discussion over cause of global warming
OneNewsNow - Tupelo,MS,USA

The debate over global warming heated up in 2008, with prominent meteorologists, scientists, and environmentalists dissenting from the so-called consensus ... [more]

8:24:42 PM Kan. has fairly typical tornado year in 2008
NTV - Kearney,NE,USA

(AP) - Kansas Climatologist Mary Knapp says she's not blown away by the 199 tornadoes that hit the state in 2008, even though that number is a little higher ... [more]

7:53:25 PM California Implements Global Warming Rating for Cars
EcoGeek - Missoula,MT,USA

All new car models will bear an Environmental Performance sticker that rates the car based on smog and global warming emissions. ... [more]

7:06:13 PM Report: Global warming poisoning koalas
Plenty Magazine - New York,NY,USA

While not officially endangered, koalas are dropping dead across Australia, and now scientists warns that global warming will soon make matters much worse. ... [more]

6:21:24 PM 2008 One Of Wettest Years Ever In Missouri
KMBC.com - Kansas City,MO,USA

Missouri's state climatologist says 2008 likely will go into the record books as the wettest ever, eclipsing even the Great Flood year of 1993. ... [more]

6:01:22 PM On Shifting Sands
East Hampton Star - East Hampton,NY,USA

.... even a peep from Mr. Global Warming, Al Gore, who, apparently, was busy adjusting to his duties as vice president and had little time for climatology. ... [more]

5:30:24 PM 10:46 am 2008 one of wettest years ever in Missouri
Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA

State Climatologist Pat Guinan said projections indicate the state will average just over 57 inches of precipitation, a fraction above the record of 56.9 ... [more]

5:26:29 PM California to Rate Cars on Global Warming in the New Year
Earth2Tech - San Francisco,CA,USA

California’s Air Resources Board said the new label will have two scores on a scale of 1-10 — one for smog and the other for global warming — with the ... [more]

1:54:20 PM AP Top Missouri News at 3:58 am CST
Hays Daily News - Hays,KS,USA

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City has recorded its 126th homicide of the year, bringing the city within one killing of tying the record for the decade. ... [more]

12:20:32 PM Report says Ohio has lots to lose from global warming
Marietta Register Online - Marietta,OH,USA

A report released by Environment Ohio finds that serious environmental and economic harms to Ohio may result from global warming in the twenty-first century ... [more]

10:57:36 AM 2009 may bring good rains
Toowoomba Chronicle - Toowoomba,Queensland,Australia

RIVERS of cash should flow into the Darling Downs early this year with climatologist Dr Roger Stone predicting abundant rainfall and a plentiful sorghum ... [more]

10:02:33 AM It's official, '08 weather was extreme
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA

It was the fourth wettest year in the 136 years that state climatology records exist. According to the 2008 Weather Summary released Tuesday by Harry ... [more]

10:00:18 AM Looking Back: Year brought weird weather
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA

Climatologists caution against inferring global warming from data in one small city. However, the World Meteorological Organization said 2008 will be the ... [more]

9:18:05 AM The East's 'big summer soak' tops '08 weather
Canada.com - Canada

1 story in the annual ranking, Environment Canada's senior climatologist David Phillips said Tuesday. "In 40 years of my employment here at Environment ... [more]

8:48:42 AM Global Warming remains misunderstood
Lake County Record-Bee - Lake County,CA,USA

Global warming is real; it is already here, and those who call it "scam and fraud" live in an illusionary world of blindness, in the darkness of yesterday, ... [more]

8:10:31 AM Local organizations collaborate to study effects of climate change
Record Journal - ferndale,wa,USA

"As an organization, we have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent since 1990, however the solution to global climate change goes beyond ... [more]

7:52:10 AM Global warming can lead to spread of tick-borne disease
Newspost Online - Baroda,India

Washington, Dec 31 (ANI): Global warming might lead to the spread of tick borne diseases in humans, warns a professor at the University of Marseille School ... [more]

7:05:15 AM Bad science fuels global warming fears
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA

23 Fence Post headline states, "Global warming is real, immediate." This is a dangerous and uninformed statement of opinion - not fact - akin to falsely ... [more]

6:51:38 AM 2008 was Iowa's fourth wettest year
Gazette Online - Solon,IA,USA

State Climatologist Harry Hillaker said the statewide average precipitation in 2008 was 43.61 inches or 9.53 inches above normal. Only three years — 1993, ... [more]

6:15:27 AM Bush agressively denied global warming
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA

The story said his picks are a sign that "he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration." I disagree. .... [more]

6:00:55 AM Churches were center of life
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

.... on Cli mate Change(IPCC)/United Nations report never read the final document and many of those names are not climatologists or researchers in the field. ... [more]

6:00:03 AM Suddenly, everyone’s talking about infrastructure
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

For eight lost years the US federal government has been one of the world’s worst laggards in the fight against global climate change. ... [more]

5:47:26 AM Malibu's vanishing Broad Beach a sign of rising sea levels ...
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

"If the latest projections of sea level rise are right, you can kiss goodbye the idea of a white sandy beach," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's ... [more]

3:50:02 AM Soggy eastern summer top weather story for 2008
CTV - Canada

During a telephone conference with reporters from across the country, David Phillips, the government agency's senior climatologist, listed off the agency's ... [more]

3:42:39 AM Reader's view: Global warming? Not here, not now
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA

I just read this headline online: “Global warming endangering reindeer at North Pole.” Gag me! I just read this headline online: “Global warming endangering ... [more]

1:27:23 AM Brown sues over Bush's environmental breaks for developers
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

"The secretary said the Endangered Species Act was never intended to be a way to address global climate change," she said, because the law focuses on the ... [more]

1:05:52 AM New Project in Decatur Could Ease Global Warming
WCIA-3 News - IL,USA

A new 85 million dollar project is starting at ADM next month that hopes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. A year after Illinois' smoking ban ... [more]



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