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11:30:33 PM David Suzuki: 24 Hours of Reality speaks up about climate change
Georgia Straight - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada

Solutions exist, although the cost and severity of the challenge is greater now than in 1988 when climatologists first called for emissions reductions. ... [more]

10:35:45 PM Nature Journal of Science Discredits Man-made Global Warming
Big Government (blog)

... Nature quickly retaliated in defense of Anthropogenic Global Warming with a scathing editorial titled: “Climatologists Under Pressure” stating: “Stolen ... [more]

10:13:19 PM Resignation of Climate Change Editor Incites Inquiries
The New American - USA

The research in question reportedly “cast doubt on man-made global warming,” a finding with which Wagner does not seem to agree. The research, which had been published in July by the University of Alabama, included work by scientists Roy Spencer and  [more]

9:54:19 PM Why We Need Adaptive, Decentralized and Democratically Anchored Governance
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

It can't adequately cope with many issues, including global climate change, food insecurity, loss of biodiversity and other similar global policy problems. Policy makers — both global and local — need to question one of the central assumptions found  [more]

8:50:40 PM Low Emission Sustainable Development
Voice of America - USA

... change or energy program, the Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development Strategies [EC-LEDS] program takes an economy-wide approach," said Kit Batten, United States Agency for International Development Global Climate Change Coordinator. ... [more]

8:50:40 PM Becoming a Skunk
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

This fall, 50% of the white bark pine population will no longer exist when grizzly bears venture to the high country to eat their pine nuts, a result of global climate change. They will likely adapt, forced from desperation, and will find another ... [more]

7:31:20 PM Me No Understand Green Talk
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

It has to do with today's cluttered conversations around climate change and global warming. Greenhouse gases. Carbon footprint. Global warming. Climate change. Ozone depletion. Cap and trade. The jargon is enough to make any head spin -- including .. [more]

7:27:41 PM Then-and-Now Pics Reveal Stunning Greenland Glacier Melt
Treehugger - New York,NY,USA

That's hardly a newsflash: retreating ice and vanishing glaciers in the Arctic have long been foremost among the most visible icons of global climate change. But the rate at which those glaciers are disappearing continues to shock scientists anew. .. [more]

6:41:08 PM Rick Perry: The EPA 'won't know what hit 'em'
Grist Magazine - Seattle,WA,USA

The fire was strengthened by winds from Tropical Storm Lee and a record-shattering drought in the state -- two factors that climatologists agree will get ... [more]

6:21:54 PM This year was 13th-driest summer since 1895 in Illinois
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA

According to Jim Angel, Illinois state climatologist with the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August was the 13th-driest August in Illinois ince 1895. Statewide average precipitation was 2.06 inches, ... [more]

5:50:09 PM Flaws in Climate Questioning Paper
Scientist

By Jef Akst | September 6, 2011 Global warming predictions mapWikimedia Commons, Robert A. Rohde An editorial published Friday (September 2) in the journal Remote Sensing points to “fundamental methodological errors” and “false claims” in a paper tha [more]

4:02:15 PM Water scarcity overtakes global warming as top environmental concern
Environmental Data Interactive - UK

Water pollution and water supply issues have overtaken global warming as a top environmental concern, according to a new report. Data gathered by global information and measurement provider Nielsen as part of its 2011 Global Online Environment ... [more]

4:02:15 PM GOP rep questions Medicare constitutionality, global warming
Lobbying World

The congressman went on to say that his personal religious faith would be a cornerstone of his Senate campaign, and denounce global warming theories as "highly suspect." He said that he hopes his positions will provide Missouri voters with a clear .. [more]

3:44:50 PM Summer of 2011 hottest on record for Augusta
Augusta Chronicle - Augusta,GA,USA

It was just another warm month in a summer characterized by state climatologist David Stooksbury as one of the hottest ever recorded. “For Augusta, with 138 years of data, 2011 was the warmest summer on record,” he wrote in a recent assessment that . [more]

3:37:53 PM Federally Funded Innovation
AOL Energy

No less controversial is federal financing of renewable energy projects, part of a strategy to both reduce national dependence on foreign oil and limit greenhouse gas emissions as part of addressing the threat of global climate change. ... [more]

2:35:04 PM Turkey Point Reactors Vulnerable to Global Warming, Experts Warn
Miami New Times

Global warming is a fact, and the results are already visible: hurricanes are getting stronger, droughts and floods more frequent. Here in South Florida, waters rose roughly six inches since between 1930 and 1981. That may not sound like much, ... [more]

2:10:57 PM The climate just turned cold for non-physicists
The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA

Anyway, I called another scientist skeptical of the climatology crowd, Don Easterbrook. Easterbrook is a professor of geology at Western Washington University who is an expert on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, a wind-flow system over the Pacific .. [more]

11:16:18 AM Journal Editor Resigns Over Controversial Climate Paper; Author
International Business Times - New York,NY,USA

International Business Times The controversial paper published earlier this year, studied the data provided by NASA's Terra satellite to argue that Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than global warming proponents' [more]

11:16:18 AM Water concerns trump global warming worries, Nielsen says
SmartPlanet.com - London,UK

By Heather Clancy | September 6, 2011, 3:10 AM PDT While consumers are less worried, generally speaking, about global warming, they are paying heightened attention to other environmental concerns such as water pollution and best practices for product [more]

10:36:12 AM 1 Killed In Sumatra Earthquake
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA

But the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency said the quake measured 6.7 on the Richter scale, and originated only at a depth of 78 kilometers. ... [more]

8:35:12 AM Analysis: Refreshing approach to the environment
The New Age Online

This first stage was completed and judged earlier in the year, after the teams of three pupils from each participating school had submitted their researched essay on topics like Global Climate Change and Conflict, Global Climate Change and Food ... [more]

8:35:12 AM Depressing news
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA

I also heard Al Gore state that if I don't believe in global climate change, I am a racist. Does this make me a double racist? I need some clarity on this. I read that if I don't believe in global climate change or evolution, I am not an intellectual [more]

8:33:31 AM Following the 2 percent
Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake City,UT,USA

As the 2012 campaign heats up, almost all candidates on the right profess that global warming is a hoax and that evolution is a bad “theory.” (Our Jon Huntsman is the exception.) To have any chance in the primaries, candidates have to say that, ... [more]

7:45:08 AM Earthquake Jolts Bandung
Tempo Interaktif - Jakarta,Indonesia

Bandung Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency's staffer, Teten Supendi, said the epicenter was located 135 km southwest of Tasikmalaya. ... [more]

6:22:27 AM Pacific nations set to tackle climate change
ABC Online - Australia

Now there have been funding commitments from developed countries at global climate change talks in the past and the secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, says now what they are working on is the best way to use that ai [more]

5:24:55 AM Tina Dupuy: Separate religion from climatology, too
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA

Since church and state are no longer the same thing — church should secede from climatology. It's not for the sake of the weather — it's really for the sake ... [more]

3:12:27 AM Strong earthquake rattles Aceh, kills at least one
Jakarta Post - Indonesia

According to North Sumatra Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency, the epicenter of the quake was 59 kilometers northeast of Singkil Baru, Aceh, ... [more]

12:37:17 AM Strong earthquake hits Indonesia's Sumatra, killing 1
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

... epicenter 59 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of Singkilbaru district in Aceh province, according to the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency. ... [more]

12:17:28 AM Strong earthquake hits Indonesia's Sumatra, kills one
Monsters and Critics.com

... at a depth of 78 kilometres, according to the Meteorology, Geophysics and Climatology Agency. A boy was killed when he was hit by falling debris, ... [more]



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