“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...
Environment
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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Moving Ahead With Adult Stem-cell Research
An outspoken advocate of adult stem-cell research and development is moving ahead with plans to raise $25 million for a not-for-profit adult stem-cell...
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EPA Declares Human Breath (CO2) a Pollutant
The EPA on April 17 proposed new regulations to control carbon dioxide (CO2) and five other “greenhouse gases” as “pollutants” under section 202(a)...
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Shedding Light on the Earth Hour
Time zone by time zone, lights went out around the globe from 8:30-9:30 p.m. local time on March 28, in observance of “Earth...
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A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming
Over the past several years, it appeared that our society was doomed to succumb to what Weather Channel founder John Coleman has described...
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Cap and Trade: A Huge, Regressive Tax
Those unfamiliar with the term "cap and trade" and the tremendous economic burden this program would place on society if implemented may first...
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