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11:12:50 PM But it could have been so much worse.
Minnesota Public Radio

September 2010 was the wettest on record for Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Climatology Working Group. Many southern Minnesota locations south of the ... [more]

10:27:59 PM It never rains, but it pours: Manchester gets wetter (and it could ...
Mail on Sunday - London,UK

... found no increase in rainfall across the country as a whole. Writing in the International Journal of Climatology, he said further investigation is required. [more]

9:50:41 PM Climate change not the same as global warming
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,ON,Canada

With the cold winter weather tapering off, the often repeated comments about “so-called global warming and climate change,” sparked by bitterly cold temperatures and “snowmageddons,” still resonate. First let's get the terminology straight. ... [more]

7:54:16 PM Americans' Belief in Global Warming Up Slightly
Newsroom America - New Zealand

By Jon E. Dougherty at 3:40 pm Eastern (Newsroom America) -- The number of Americans who believe global warming is occurring is up slightly after significant declines over the past three years, a new study shows, though the level is still far below . [more]

7:03:38 PM Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of US electricity
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the US electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to a report by Evan Mills, an energy analyst at Lawrence ... [more]

7:03:38 PM Senate Vote on S.482: Fiddling While the Republic Burns
Global Warming (blog)

Aside from a few diehard global warming zealots, hardly any Member of Congress would vote for such a bill. Most lawmakers would run from such legislation even faster than the Senate last year ditched cap-and-trade after its outing as a hidden tax on  [more]

5:00:26 PM Penguin numbers suffering with krill decline due to Global Warming
Sydney Indymedia

Krill availability is affected by reduced sea ice conditions in Antarctica due to global warming and climate change. "For penguins and other species, krill is the linchpin in the food web. Regardless of their environmental preferences, ... [more]

5:00:26 PM Flashback 2005: UN Predicts 50 Million Global Warming Refugees By 2010
NewsBusters (blog)

By Noel Sheppard | April 12, 2011 | 10:31 To give you an idea of the kind of hysterical predictions the global warming crowd have made in recent years, the United Nations in 2005 actually forecast that by the end of the previous decade, there would b [more]

5:00:26 PM Chilling: Cold Snaps Will Persist in Warming World
Our Amazing Planet

One can think of the existence of extreme cold events despite an overall trend of global warming much as one would the presence of millionaires in the midst of the Great Depression or the current global economic crisis. Global warming and the Great . [more]

5:00:26 PM How the Koch Brothers Fund the Climate Change Denial Machine
Care2.com (blog)

The CAP report cites a Greenpeace report which states that Koch Industries is "now playing a quiet but dominant role in a high-profile national policy debate on global warming." Koch Industries, through its foundations, gave $24.9 to "organizations o [more]

4:48:55 PM China's Ambitious, High-Growth 5-Year Plan Stirs a Climate Debate
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Among the small band of US analysts who occupy the nexus of the Chinese economy and global climate change policy, Scissors, an economist at the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, is a dyed-in-the-wool contrarian. Lately, as Congress thrashes [more]

4:48:55 PM Natural gas from shale contributes to global warming
Eureka! Science News - Quebec,QC,Canada

The full footprint should be used in planning for alternative energy futures that adequately consider global climate change." *Shale gas is extracted by a high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) process. Large volumes of water are forced under .. [more]

2:12:32 PM The Response of High Arctic Tundra to Long-Term Warming
CO2 Science Magazine - Tempe,AZ,USA

Arctic climate: potential for change under global warming. In: Chapin, FS, Jefferies, R., Reynolds, J., Shaver, G. and Svoboda, J. (Eds.) Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate: An Ecophysiological Perspective. Academic Press Inc., New York, New Yor [more]

8:18:46 AM The things I think I think: Global warming
Montana Kaimin - Missoula,MT,USA

Some 27 percent of people polled nationwide said there was no evidence of global warming, and a mere 47 percent said they thought human behavior had something to do with the observed trends. The work has been done and the research is out there, peopl [more]

6:40:18 AM Fish carried up a mountain on backs of llamas to escape global warming
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent 7:00AM BST 12 Apr 2011 The endangered vendace, that has been in Britain since the Ice Age, is in danger of dying out as lakes and rivers warm up because of man made global warming. To ensure the species ... [more]

6:40:18 AM Premier Wen Jiabao, on global warming
China Economic Review

“The Chinese work everywhere, they don't make speeches, they work fast. The fact is that Indian and Chinese products are much less expensive than European products.” “While taking the lead in greatly cutting emissions, developed nations should also . [more]

6:40:18 AM Half of Americans Not Worried About Warming
Care2.com (blog)

Despite years of warnings, scientific consensus,, global treaty negotiations, and the appearance of predicted increased instances of violent weather and climate refugees, nearly half of Americans don't worry about global warming. ... [more]

2:46:41 AM Antarctic Penguin Population Declines with Krill
IPS - Italy

... past 30 years as their chief food source has been devastated by a combination of other predators, over-fishing, and rapidly melting sea ice caused by global warming, according to a new study released here Monday by the National Academy of Science [more]

1:45:24 AM Global Warming Hysteria: “You'be Been Had!”
First Things

A former GWH believer named David Evans changed his mind some years ago and now says that the human responsibility for global warming is minimal, and that the warming industry is steeped in ideology after the expected scientific findings didn't work  [more]

12:18:18 AM Attacks Mount on Teaching of Evolution
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

The latest anti-evolution legislation advanced last week when the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill by a vote of 70-28 that encourages teachers to question the theory of evolution, as well as the science of global warming, in science . [more]



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