Environment

Is Global Warming a Sin?

04-29-2007 • ALEXANDER COCKBURN for Counterpunch

From Papal Indulgences to Carbon Credits

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Scientists Demand Changes to Global Warming Skeptic's Film

4-25-2007 • AP

"Free speech does not extend to misleading the public by making factually inaccurate statements," he said. "Somebody has to stand up for the public interest here." Durkin called the letter "loathsome."

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Fossils show Earth goes through warming cooling cycles naturally

4-24-2007 • Reuters

Fossil footprints of a pantodont, a plant-eating creature weighing about 880 lb, add to evidence of sequoia-type trees and crocodile-like beasts in the Arctic millions of years ago when greenhouse gas concentrations in the air were high.

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Gingrich Wows Kerry With His "Green" Conservatism

04-11-2007 • Dana Milbank - Washington Post

Newt: "I am not automatically saying that coercion and bureaucracy is not an answer" - Not content with losing only a War on Drugs, Illiteracy, Poverty and Terror, bi partisan support is shaping up for a "War on Global Warming"

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Why So Gloomy?<br>by Richard S. Lindzen

4-11-2007 • NewsWeek

Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhouse gas emissions are contributing at some level.

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Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming

4-4-2007 • RIA Novosti

Experts said that between 50 and 100 grams of CO2 is emitted during barbequing. Beginning June 2007, residents will have to pay 20 euros for a grilling session. Plan to monitor compliance with helicopters. [Which don't pollute? HaHaHa]

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A CEO With A Spine

4-4-2007 • NY Sun

Bob Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, one of the few CEOs brave enough to challenge the militant climate control movement that threatens the future of America's economy. He regards Al Gore as the shaman of global doom and gloo

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Bush bypassing Senate to name conservative academic to post

4-4-2007 • Raw Story

[It's far worse than that. She's a libertarian!] President Bush intends to bypass the Senate in order to name a "conservative academic" to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

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SupREAM Court finds environmental regulations in the CONstitution

4-2-2007 • AFP

Environmentalists hailed a US Supreme Court ruling that the government has the power to regulate greenhouse gases, as a watershed decision in fighting global warming. [more power]

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CONTRAILS: KILLING US SOFTLY?

03-23-2007 • Devvy Kidd

All of us at one time or another have looked up into the sky and seen those beautiful, fluffy clouds floating by or some that just seem to hang there for our enjoyment. Some of them look as soft as a pillow. But, over the decade,...

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Global Warming expedition called off due to frostbite

03-13-2007 • AP

(Don't you love this) A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-

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Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds

3-12-2007 • LiveScience.com

Earth is heating up lately, but so are Mars, Pluto and other worlds in our solar system, leading some scientists to speculate that a change in the sun’s activity is the common thread linking all these baking events. Others argue that such claims a

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"Flatulence Cards" Offset Dog, Human Emissions

03-07-2007 • National Geographic News

While global warming is nothing to laugh at (hah!), an Australian company is providing some comic relief, selling carbon credits for flatulent pets and people.

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Documentary Refutes Greenhouse Theory

03-06-2007 • Washington Times

"The Great Global Warming Scandal" says the sun, and not human-generated greenhouse gases, is to blame for the increase in the Earth's temperature, The Washington Times reported.

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Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”

02-26-2007 • TCPR

Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.

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Is U.S. near a tipping point on global warming?

2-20-2007 • Reuters

U.S. policy on global warming seems headed for a tipping point, with politicians, business leaders and economists joining environmentalists to call for new laws to limit greenhouse gases that spur climate change.

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GLOBAL WARMING'S FRIENDLY FIRE

2-11-2007 • National Center for Policy Analysis

Environmental fundamentalism is making the lives of the poor even worse in Mexico after triggering a huge rise in the price of corn—the chief component of the tortilla—thanks to a government-induced demand for ethanol in the US. This constitutes po

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An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change

2-11-2007 • London Times

When politicians and journalists declare the science of global warming is settled, they show a regrettable ignorance about how science works. Treated to another dose recently when experts put the political spin on an unfinished scientific dossier on