Posts Tagged ‘ ClimateChange ’

Filed under: Environment, Climate Change

Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.

 

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Filed under: Environment, Climate Change

Scientists urged aggressive action to curb global warming, including a cap-and-trade program and taxes on carbon emissions.

 

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Filed under: Barack Obama, Environment, Deep Background

COPENHAGEN --

As Bolivian President Evo Morales was thundering in the press briefing room of the Copenhagen climate summit on Wednesday-railing about the "guilt of the countries of the North" and denouncing President Barack Obama...
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Filed under: Environment, Foreign Policy

Tuesday afternoon brought a showdown between the world's largest polluters, the United States and China, at the climate summit in Copenhagen, the Associate Press reports. Each country refuses to budge from its position on carbon emissions, and China continues to accuse the United States and...
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Filed under: Environment, Scandal, Sarah Palin

In an op-ed in Wednesday's Washington Post, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to boycott this week's international climate change summit in Copenhagen, saying the science surrounding the issue has become too politicized.

Palin writes...
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Filed under: Environment

At a press event Monday afternoon in Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has ruled greenhouse gases are a threat to public health, opening the door for the regulation of carbon emissions from automobiles, power plants, and other sources.
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Filed under: Senate, Republicans, John McCain, Environment

Sen. John McCain was once a "maverick" on climate change, so much so that he convinced one of his closest friends in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, to champion the issue. Now, as Graham and another McCain pal -- Joe Lieberman...
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Filed under: Environment, Media

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote Monday that he sometimes "feels despair over the state of the planet." He compared climate scientists who are making increasingly dire predictions to the cursed prophetess who foretold the downfall of Troy. "Climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras...
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Filed under: Senate, Environment

Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) will introduce global warming legislation on Wednesday after nine months of closed-door deliberations. The pair said they expect hearings on the bill to start next month, admitting that it will be a "starting...
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Filed under: Environment, Woman Up, International

Due to global warming, Switzerland may be losing huge swaths of the glaciers that have long covered the Alps, but as of Wednesday it's also gained approximately 150 meters of Italian territory.

Bloomberg reports that, after the...
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