UN’s Ban Ki-moon Critical of G8 Emissions Targets
On July 8, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations for failing to make more substantive commitments...
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Suppression of EPA Report on Global Warming
The name of Alan Carlin, a senior analyst with the EPA Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, should go down in the history...
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EPA clears California’s new vehicular limits on greenhouse-gas emissions
Where California leads, some say, the rest of the country follows. Whether that is good news remains to be seen. Hailed by environmental...
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Was Swine Flu Outbreak Caused by Lab Leak?
The current H1N1 influenza A (i.e., “swine flu”) outbreak around the world was likely an after-effect of a government laboratory leaking a virus...
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From Copenhagen to Hopenhagen
The ubiquitous “hope and change” theme Americans know, oh, so well — one that has become totally meaningless, a result of its overuse...
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“Unequivocal Warming”
In what might be the most anticlimactic study in history, the New York Times reports that the U.S. Global Change Research Program predicts...
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Climate Rules Will Kill Firm Says Lion Oil Exec
Steve Cousins, vice president of refining for Lion Oil Company, an 80-year-old Arkansas-based refiner, testified that the company would have to “shutter operations”...
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U.S. Seeks Global Warming Deal with China
One of the signature issues of the Obama administration will be the hammering out of a replacement for the failed Kyoto accord on...
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300,000 Annual Global Warming Deaths?
Global Humanitarian Forum — an organization headed by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan — announced last Friday that climate change is responsible for...
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Cap and Trade Passes House Committee
Climate-change legislation has now officially become part of Washington policymaking with the approval on May 21 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee...
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Missing Link Coverage Goes Amiss
"Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is ‘missing link’ in human evolution," ran the Guardian headline on May 19. The media was abuzz with excitement...
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A Logic Deficiency About Fuel Efficiency
Clearly pandering to the green lobby, President Barack Obama proposed on May 19 “the highest auto fuel efficiency standards ever attempted in the...
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Nuclear Cleanup Funds Mismanaged
As part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, “the Energy Department has begun releasing more than $6 billion in stimulus money to clean...
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“No Coal” Goal
The road to Copenhagen in December 2009, where the United Nations will attempt to come up with a successor to the Kyoto (global...
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Obama Celebrates Earth Day in Iowa
Millions of Americans and others observed the 39th annual Earth Day on April 22 and President Barack Obama was no exception. The president...
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