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10:39:26 PM Mitt Romney Backtracks on Global Warming
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, assailed by Republicans for saying climate change is a scientific fact, appeared to alter his position by saying he doesn't think the issue merits substantial government action. During a townhall meeting in Lebanon [more]

10:39:26 PM U-Va. turns over documents in global warming case
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Anita Kumar The University of Virginia turned over thousands of pages of documents involving the work of former professor Michael Mann to the American Tradition Institute Environmental Law Center. In a statement, the center announced Thursday that [more]

10:39:26 PM Fox News: 'Facts Are Certainly' On The Side Of Global Warming, But 'It
Think Progress - Yorba Linda,CA,USA

Think Progress By Brad Johnson on Aug 25, 2011 at 12:38 pm On Fox & Friends Sunday, anchor Clayton Morris admitted that Fox News factcheckers have confirmed that man-made global warming is “certainly” real, but argued that it “doesn't matter” because [more]

10:14:31 PM Biofuels: 6 Principles for Ethical Policymaking
Policy Innovations - New York,NY,USA

3) Biofuels should contribute to a net reduction of total greenhouse gas emissions and not exacerbate global climate change. 4) Biofuels should develop in accordance with trade principles that are fair and recognize the rights of people to just rewar [more]

8:56:21 PM Expert: Irene Not Like 1938 Disaster
Patch.com

Scott Mandia, professor of meteorology and climatology at Suffolk County Community College, says comparisons to 1985 hurricane, Gloria, might be more accurate. By Henry Powderly Though the current track of Hurricane Irene means Long Islanders are in  [more]

8:47:58 PM Hurricane Irene could be 'most devastating storm to ever hit' N.J. ...
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

By Stephen Stirling/The Star-Ledger Getty ImagesNew Jersey's climatologist says Hurricane Irene, pictured in this infrared satellite image, could pack enough punch to become the biggest storm ever to hit the Garden State. Hurricane Irene could strike [more]

5:31:20 PM National Press Club "NEWSMAKER" Media Briefing
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Internationally known Climatologist Dr. James Hansen (Columbia University Earth Institute) makes the case against building the Keystone XL Pipeline which would transport "dirty oil" from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. As the deadline nears for President  [more]

5:31:20 PM Hurricane Irene heading straight for New Jersey
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - East Brunswick,NJ,USA

2:41 pm Hurricane Irene could have a devastating impact in New Jersey, the state climatologist said today. If Irene “moved right over New Jersey, we could be just devastated,” said David A. Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers ... [more]

4:39:45 PM Did CLOUD Just Rain on the Global Warming Parade?
Forbes - USA

I also blog at Climate-Skeptic.com on global warming and climate change issues and at ParkPrivatization.com on trends in recreation privatization. I have written a novel called "BMOC" and several books and videos on climate change. ... [more]

4:39:45 PM Cosmic Rays vs the Global Warmers
Daily Mail (blog)

Global warming explained. And humanity is in the clear. It is a good theory and, as I said, initially persuasive enough to tilt me firmly into the sceptical camp. But some hard evidence – beyond statistical correlations – would be nice. ... [more]

4:39:45 PM How to talk to a climate sceptic
Guardian - UK

While Hayhoe would certainly not argue that this scorching heat is unequivocal evidence of global warming, she is sure of one thing: it's a sign of things to come. Hayhoe is well known not only for her scientific work on the regional impacts of globa [more]

4:39:45 PM Global Warming Will Lead to Alien Invasions?
Mackinac Center for Public Policy - Midland,MI,USA

By Russ Harding | 8/25/2011 9:30 AM Climate change alarmists have been busy blaming every conceivable threat to mankind and the planet on global warming. The mainstream media eagerly report every new study that predicts the Armageddon-like consequenc [more]

3:50:03 PM Solid Ecommerce Spending Recovery Suggests Strong Holiday Season
The FINANCIAL - Tbilisi,Georgia

In context of global climate change, they are furthermore used to derive potential future climate scenarios basing on theoretical assumptions about the global emissions of greenhouse gas (emission scenarios). A recent analysis of model results from 2 [more]

3:50:03 PM SA to benefit should climate funding target be met, Manuel says
Engineering News - Garden View,Eastern Cape,South Africa

Manuel said that South Africa should not wait for other countries to start moving towards a low-carbon economy, and should fixate on the technicalities of the global climate change negotiations. Instead the country needed to focus on changing its ... [more]

3:33:28 PM Drought, high heat hold hard grip on southern US
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

"You look at some of these places in Oklahoma and Texas and they are now approaching or breaking the number of 100-degree days," said Brian Fuchs, climatologist at National Drought Mitigation Center, which is housed at the University of Nebraska. ... [more]

3:33:28 PM Mitt Romney Suddenly Not So Sure About Climate Change Anymore
New York Magazine - New York,NY,USA

This is hardly a radical idea — 97 percent of climatologists believe that human activity has played a large role in the earth's rising temperatures — but it's at odds with much of the Republican party. Indeed, Rick Perry, who recently claimed the ... [more]

3:33:28 PM Extreme weather may be the new norm
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA

The Super Outbreak, as climatologists dubbed it, killed 327 people. Floodwaters sprang from the Red River to the Ohio River. A string of enormous storms saturated the Ohio Valley, where precipitation was more than 200 percent above normal. ... [more]

1:43:34 PM Living green in the great Northwest
Red, Green, and Blue - San Francisco,CA,USA

If climate shifts as modest as El Niño/ La Niña may be responsible for 21 percent of civil wars worldwide — and nearly 30 percent in those countries affected, imagine the chaos we could be facing under global climate change over the next 20 to 50 ... [more]

1:43:34 PM 'We're losers if we don't save planet'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

I find myself in the awkward position of supporting the CIA and the Pentagon when they warned as far back as 2003 that the biggest threat to future peace and security would be global climate change. “Sadly, then president George W Bush decided to bur [more]

1:13:59 PM Global Warming May be Responsible for Fingernails
Laboratory Equipment - Rockaway,USA

Nails on fingers and toes first appeared at the same time as a 200000-year global warming event 55 million years ago, giving modern primates better agility and the ability to grasp. Researchers discovered more than 25 new specimens of the extinct ... [more]

1:13:59 PM In the Bitter Climate Debate
Yale Environment 360

Rick Perry to prod him into action on global warming. Katharine Hayhoe is an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where temperatures during this summer of record-breaking heat have surpassed 100 ... [more]

9:06:15 AM Irene's following similar path of worst storm of 20th century
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA

Hurricane Irene on Wednesday posed a serious danger to New Jersey, threatening to deluge an already soggy state and damage the coast this weekend, a state climatologist said. David A. Robinson said "this is about as serious a situation as I've seen"  [more]

8:17:20 AM Coulter: The Flash Mob Method of Scientific Inquiry
Deviant?…

And it's not only the Church of Climatology that does this. This is where my suspicious of an inferiority complex comes from. Idiots like Chris Mathews work a little too hard at convincing the world that they are intelligent. I wonder if they're tryi [more]

6:19:29 AM Great hope, great fear
High Country News - Paonia,CO,USA

It was the kind of torrential downpour climatologists predict will increase as the planet warms. Their father survived. He alone can speak of the horror of trying to save his family, only to realize he could barely save himself. In the rushing water, [more]

5:05:30 AM Reno's ruins tell all
Hutchinson News

Kansas State Climatologist Mary Knapp told those on the tour that it's been the hottest September through August on record since 1890. It's also been the driest September through August on record. While the drought currently is more intense than that [more]

4:38:28 AM Romney: Climate change maybe not so manmade
Politico - Washington,DC,USA

In June, a day after declaring his candidacy, he said this when asked about global warming: “I don't speak for the scientific community, of course,'' Romney said. “But I believe the world's getting warmer. I can't prove that, but I believe based on . [more]

2:40:44 AM Trades and Big Wind
Honolulu Weekly - Honolulu,HI,USA

by Joan Conrow | Aug 24, 2011 The viability of the controversial $3 billion “Big Wind” project may be undermined by the global climate change it is intended to help mitigate. Preliminary plans call for building dozens of windmills on Lanai and Moloka [more]

2:29:50 AM Permafrost carbon could up global warming
United Press International

24 (UPI) -- Global warming may accelerate as billions of tons of carbon trapped in permafrost moves into the atmosphere by the end of this century, US researchers say. Warming with climate change could cause soil in high-latitude regions to change fr [more]

2:29:50 AM Study: Global Warming Is Driving Global Warfare Or Something…
Deviant?…

He calls it a “catastrophic convergence,” in which large numbers of unemployed young men with ready access to weapons represent a tinderbox into which the match of global warming is thrown. “You've already got a very volatile situation in these ... [more]

2:29:50 AM Congress climate skeptic embraces Perry
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Rick Perry, who describes global warming as “a theory that remains unproven.” Inhofe, speaking Wednesday to the (Oklahoma) State Chamber of Commerce, said he “likes Mitt Romney, but he's a little mushy on the environmental issues” and “Newt Gingrich, [more]

1:02:22 AM Kan. senator takes drought tour as hearing looms
Ventura ...

Roberts, the ranking member of that committee, was joined on the drought tour by representatives of the Kansas Water Office, the state Department of Agriculture and the state climatologist. His tour guide, farmer Chad Basinger, pointed out the ... [more]

1:02:22 AM Bloomfield bracing for Irene
NorthJersey.com

Current conditions are ripe for a potentially damaging storm, according to State Climatologist David Robinson. Falling trees are more likely with soil already saturated from recent heavy rains, and river levels are high, he said. ... [more]

1:02:22 AM NJ faces flooding even without direct hit
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

State climatologist David Robinson says much of New Jersey, which has already had twice as much rain this month as it gets in a typical August, is vulnerable to flooding and fallen trees. And with a new moon due over the weekend, the high tides will  [more]



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