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11:37:36 PM Global Warming: Fact, Fiction, or Both?
WCTV - Tallahassee,FL,USA

THE CROWD OF SCIENTISTS THAT BELIEVE IN A MAN-MADE COMPONENT TO GLOBAL WARMING IS LARGE. HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF SKEPTICS IN THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY CONTINUES ... [more]

7:43:52 PM Ashley Judd urges Congress to fight global warming
The Associated Press

The actress told a House subcommittee on Thursday that climate legislation should not just address the causes of global warming, but also the effects ... [more]

7:40:30 PM World's great rivers are losing water due to climate change ...
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA

The American Rivers Wodder said global climate change threatens rivers and the communities that depend on them. "We are at a transformational moment," she ... [more]

6:49:23 PM Fire is an Important and Under-Appreciated Part of Global Climate ...
National Science Foundation (press release) - USA

The authors call on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to fully integrate fire into their assessments of global climate change, ... [more]

6:47:54 PM Fire influences global warming more than previously thought
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

.... knowledge about fire from disparate fields including ecology, global modeling, physics, anthropology, environmental history, medicine and climatology. ... [more]

3:59:55 PM Electricity providers say plan would raise prices
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Electric companies are warning lawmakers that prices will go up if Congress passes a global warming bill that doesn't give utilities some ... [more]

3:54:33 PM Include indigenous rights in global climate change policies ...
CBC News - Canada

Any global agreement on climate change has to include the rights of Aboriginal Peoples, delegates said Wednesday at an international climate change summit ... [more]

3:14:03 PM 'World News' Airs Catastrophic Global Warming story for Earth Day
Business Media Institute - Alexandria,VA,USA

By Jeff Poor It just wouldn't be Earth Day without a catastrophic global warming segment from the network news, so ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore .... [more]

3:06:28 PM 100 questions to conserve global biodiversity
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA

Where will the impacts of global climate change upon hydrology be most extreme and how might they affect freshwater species and the ability of ... [more]

2:52:28 PM Tornado Awareness Week mock drills/warnings set for today
New Richmond News - New Richmond,WI,USA

Assistant state climatologist Ed Hopkins says we've seen more weak tornadoes over the last 60 years, but the numbers of strong and violent twisters have ... [more]

2:00:55 PM John Kerry Says Time Is Ticking On Climate Change Legislation
Stop the ACLU - New Cumberland,PA,USA

As the Climahysteric talking point goes, he's not a climatologist. Of course, it is easy for Kerry to push climate change legislation and treaties, ... [more]

1:13:07 PM Plants could override climate change effects on wildfires
Science Centric - Sofia,Sofia Town,Bulgaria

Scientists predict that global climate change will make many regions around the world warmer and drier, a factor which, taken by itself, would seem to .... [more]

12:40:40 PM Slide Show: What Does Climate Change Science Look Like?
Scientific American - USA

Climatologist Gavin Schmidt and photographer Joshua Wolfe in their new book Climate Change: Picturing the Science offer an inside look at all these ... [more]

12:24:20 PM Obama: Serious Challenges Posed By Climate Change
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

.... also pledged to make the United States a leader in the sector, and to strengthen the lagging role Washington has had on fighting global climate change. ... [more]

8:57:13 AM Americans must act — before it is too late
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

They listen to the kook fringe groups of environmentalists and because they are a block of votes and preach doom and gloom and ignore the climatologist that ... [more]

8:46:27 AM A Strong Low Carbon Fuel Standard Could Serve as a Model to the World
Capitol Weekly - Sacramento,CA,USA

Accounting for the impact of crop-based biofuels on habitat is critical, since deforestation represents 20% of annual global warming emissions. ... [more]

7:58:43 AM California Needs Low Carbon Fuels to Replace Polluting Petroleum Fuels
AScribe (press release) - USA

Transportation is the largest source of global warming emissions in California, responsible for approximately 38 percent of the state's greenhouse gas ... [more]

7:20:28 AM YOUSAID: ZILCH.
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

Thirty years ago you couldn't find a "climatologist." Now they are everywhere. ... Why can't the weatherman tell me what tomorrow's weather will be? ... [more]

7:03:25 AM A preliminary report on IPGSCC
Alaska Dispatch - Alaska,USA

I entered the Indigenous People's Global Summit on Climate Change conference expecting to be overwhelmed by an anthropogenic global warming message Monday ... [more]

5:06:47 AM Pollution 'fights global warming'
BBC News - E,UK

By Matt McGrath Air pollution may be helping the fight against global warming by enhancing the ability of plants to absorb carbon dioxide, scientists say. ... [more]

4:28:50 AM Catholics Go Green
Forbes - USA

--59% agree that human activity is contributing significantly to global climate change. --58% say global climate change is an urgent problem that must be ... [more]

3:21:42 AM Tornado time returns
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA

Assistant state climatologist Edward Hopkins said topography affects tornado density in the alley across southern Wisconsin. "This region is flatter than ... [more]

2:36:36 AM PHIL KERPEN: Earth Day — The Perfect Time to Celebrate Capitalism
FOXNews - USA

All this is for a plan that could — if it meets its objectives — trim a couple hundredths of a degree off of expected global warming temperatures 50 years ... [more]

1:46:52 AM Scientific Proof of Global Warming
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA

Despite any confusion that you might be facing, the facts on global warming are not up for debate. Human activities are most likely causing global warming ... [more]

12:49:59 AM The Big Picture: Activity on Climate Change is Heating Up
Red, Green, and Blue - San Francisco,CA,USA

The House Energy and Environment Subcommittee is having hearings all week on this bill, and testimony on global warming and other issues will come from ... [more]

12:44:33 AM Clinton: Dealing with climate change like trying to lose weight
CNN Political Ticker - USA

In a speech on Earth Day, Secretary of State Clinton comparing fighting global climate change to trying to lose weight. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of ... [more]



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