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Key Members of Congress Ring Alarm Bells
In the midst of the House of Representatives efforts to completely gut US international investments in addressing carbon pollution, two leading Members of Congress highlighted how the US would lose out from these draconian cuts. US Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) both raised the alarm bells – and they are ringing […]
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Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, denier of basic climate science, resigns after 32 years
(TheWeatherSpace.com) – After more than 30 years, Long Range and Expert Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has resigned from Accuweather.com Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather.com officially announced the rumor as true, leaking it to a known weather forum. A call into Accuweather to confirm this was met with a hostile person on the other end that declined to […]
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Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, denier of basic climate science, resigns after 32 years
(TheWeatherSpace.com) – After more than 30 years, Long Range and Expert Meteorologist Joe Bastardi has resigned from Accuweather.com Jesse Ferrell of Accuweather.com officially announced the rumor as true, leaking it to a known weather forum. A call into Accuweather to confirm this was met with a hostile person on the other end that declined to […]
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NY Times on “The dirty energy party”
The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP. It only makes one historical error: President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]
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NY Times on “The dirty energy party”
The New York Times has a good editorial today on the “The dirty energy party” aka the GOP. It only makes one historical error: President Obama has decided that the failure of last year’s comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and […]
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House Republicans Pretend Global Warming Doesn't Exist
Today the US House of Representatives is expected to vote on an amendment which would deny any US funding to international efforts to determine whether global warming is happening and how much damage it will have on humanity. The amendment from Rep. Luetkemeyer (R-MO) would block funds to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
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House Republicans Pretend Global Warming Doesn’t Exist
Today the US House of Representatives is expected to vote on an amendment which would deny any US funding to international efforts to determine whether global warming is happening and how much damage it will have on humanity. The amendment from Rep. Luetkemeyer (R-MO) would block funds to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
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Company gives lumps of coal to children
The coal gift bag. Photo: Russ MaddoxThis week, we got an email from Seward, Alaska, where our friend Russ Maddox was shocked at what his 9-year-old granddaughter brought home from a field trip last week to Aurora Energy Service’s Seward coal loading facility: The gift bag included cellophane wrapped coal candy, a real lump of […]
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What is coal’s true cost?
For coal, the real costs outweigh the benefits.Photo: Andrea AbbottPaul Epstein, associate director of the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment, will publish a study entitled, “Full cost accounting for the life cycle of coal,” later this month. The study has 10 coauthors, including public health and environment experts. A news release explains […]
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Budget for rainforests puts Obama’s $1 billion pledge at risk
Photo: Rhett A. Butler, MongaBayBoth President Obama’s proposed budget and especially House Republican proposals fall significantly short of the administration’s $1 billion pledge for short-term forest finance made at the Copenhagen climate summit – putting the United States’ climate credibility at even further risk. However modest, the $1 billion pledge was one of the few […]
