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8:03:53 PM Global Warming Cools off as a Top Concern
MarketWatch - USA

Concern about climate change/global warming among online consumers around the world took a back-seat to other environmental issues such as air and water pollution, water shortages, packaging waste and use of pesticides, according to Nielsen's 2011 .. [more]

8:03:53 PM The Deniers of Global Warming are Winning
Seattle Post Intelligencer

All of this is happening with only one degree of global warming. All numerical models that evaluate the effect of increased CO2 predict another degree warming is already in the pipeline, and several more degrees if CO2 continues to increase as it has [more]

8:03:53 PM A Weather Newsgasm
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Put another way, we don't “control” the weather or climate and, despite decades of global warming lies, compared to the sun and oceans, we don't even influence it. The best definition of the weather is “chaos.” It will do whatever it wants to do. ... [more]

5:27:03 PM N.J. storm update: Coastal damage not as bad as expected, but flooding
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com State Climatologist David Robinson called the flooding a “disaster.” “In some places, this could beat (Hurricane) Floyd,” Robinson said. Irene, downgraded to a tropical storm, is now hitting Connecticut. In New Jersey, she le [more]

5:11:55 PM Hurricane Irene and Global Warming: A Glimpse of the Future?
New Yorker - New York,NY,USA

Nowadays, whenever there's an Irene-like event—a huge storm, a terrible flood, a killer heat wave—the question is raised: was this caused by global warming? The very frequency with which this question is being asked these days should make people take [more]

5:11:55 PM Al Gore: Global Warming skeptics should be shunned like racists
Pajamas Media - El Segundo,CA,USA

One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, at least so says former Vice President Al Gore…. “I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding, ... [more]

3:28:20 PM Al Gore Compares Climate Change to Civil Rights Fight
FOX News - USA

Gore also wants people to give up meat and go organic to combat global warming. "Industrial agriculture is a part of the problem,” Gore said. “The shift toward a more meat-intensive diet,” the clearing of forest areas in many parts of the world in .. [more]

3:22:37 PM Rivers in New Jersey still swelling after rains slow
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

“This is a disaster,” said David Robinson, the state climatologist. “In some places, this could beat (Hurricane) Floyd.” The Raritan River in Manville and Bound Brook, often the hardest hit by flooding, was more than 7 feet above flood stage and risi [more]

10:43:36 AM Hot and dry: Get used to it
Online Athens - Athens,GA,USA

"You're only taking 30-year snippets," he said, which is just the blink of an eye for climatologists, who think in time scales of hundreds and thousands of years. "The 1970s were extremely cold, so we expected to go up. Adding one of the driest and . [more]

7:25:25 AM Betting the farm against climate change
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Global warming is extracting real costs, even in states where the governors are in denial. Footprints mark the bank of a partially dried-up pond near downtown Dallas, Texas August 1. Scorching heat and lingering drought across Texas have pushed ... [more]

5:55:07 AM Local meteorologist points out weather's extremes
St. Cloud Times

Some scientists think global climate change is going to lead to more extremes and more severe weather. My opinion is it will lead to a milder climate with more precipitation, warmer lows and a warmer cold season. I can't say this year is consistent . [more]

5:53:17 AM NH foul-weather history dominated by flooding, power outages
The Union Leader

“Traditionally, New Hampshire fares a lot better from hurricanes than places like Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts,” state climatologist Mary Stampone said last week. “Historically, what really get us in New Hampshire are torrential ... [more]

4:32:07 AM How Global Warming Is Making Hurricane Irene Worse
Think Progress - Yorba Linda,CA,USA

Climate scientists are debating how global warming and natural variability are interacting to change the intensity of Atlantic storms overall. Sea Level Rise. Greenhouse pollution is causing the world's oceans to rise, both because of warming of the  [more]

4:32:07 AM MSNBC Features 9/11 Truther to Blame Hurricane Irene on Global Warming…
Deviant?…

On Friday's Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC contributor Touré, who is also a 9/11 truther, wondered if Hurricane Irene is an example of global warming. He speculated, “When you talk about an unusual weather event happening in New York and this sort of thin [more]

3:34:25 AM Hurricane Irene update: Storm shifts west, heading toward Ship Bottom,
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Climatologists say the Passaic River is expected to rise to 23 feet after Irene leaves town, the highest it has been since Hurricane Gloria in 1984. Along Big Piece Road, which abuts 2500 acres of swampland along the Passaic, [more]

2:05:45 AM That CO2 warming the world: Lock it in a rock
Economic Times - India

Chemically disposing of CO2, the chief greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, is a kind of 21st-century alchemy that researchers and governments have hoped for to slow or halt climate change. The American and Icelandic designers of the "CarbFix" . [more]

12:55:15 AM Gore: Scientists Wouldn't Lie for Money to Advance Global Warming Theory -
NewsBusters (blog)

NewsBusters (blog) By Noel Sheppard | August 27, 2011 | 19:37 Nobel laureate Al Gore claimed on Friday that scientists involved in advancing the theory of global warming wouldn't do it just for the money. ALEX BOGUSKY, CONSUMER ADVOCATE, FEARLESS COT [more]



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