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Is Your State In Climate Change Denial?

Posted by wally on Tuesday, 01 April 2014 in Earth Violators

No This is not an April fools joke but we wish it was. By Tim Radford While Washington is doing more to address climate change, individual American states are scaling back their policies - apparently to public approval. LONDON, 1 April - In the last five years – five years marked by heat waves th...

The Frozen Truth about Glaciers

Posted by Calle on Tuesday, 18 March 2014 in Climate Change

Lewis Owen has been scraping out icy fragments of history's truth from one of the most glaciated regions on Earth for the past 25 years. His frequent excursions to Tibet and the Himalayas have led the University of Cincinnati professor of geology to some cold, hard facts. Owen knows climate ...

Don’t ignore climate change realities

Posted by jucortat on Thursday, 27 February 2014 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

The fact that climate change is occurring around the world makes some people nervous, even a little mad. Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/27/4853924/editorial-dont-ignore-climate.html#storylink=Take skeptics who cherry-pick issues — columnist Charles Krauthammer crowed this week th...

What Is "Normal" Climate Change?

Posted by bjb41 on Friday, 21 February 2014 in Climate Change

What is the scientific, measurable definition of a “normal” climate change and what is the measuring stick used to determine acceptable variability? What are the parameters of deciding “normal” and what makes the global warming crowd the soothsayers of climate, especially since they’ve been wrong in...

Obama Global Warming Order Ignores Leveling Temperatures

Posted by rackfokus on Wednesday, 20 November 2013 in Climate Change

The Obama administration’s executive order on global warming ignores strong scientific evidence that the earth has not warmed in the last 15 years. Increasingly, media outlets have been reporting that global warming has been on hiatus since about 1998, causing climate scientists to scramble for an ...

Colorado Flooding and Climate Change

Posted by piankoe on Sunday, 15 September 2013 in Climate Change

The Boulder, Colo. area is reeling after being inundated by record rainfall, with more than half a year’s worth of rain falling over the past three days. During those three days, 24-hour rainfall totals of between 8 and 10 inches across much of the Boulder area were enough to qualify this storm...

Republicans describe Obamas energy plan as "Un-American"

Posted by Jentyl on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 in General Environment

Leading Republicans were using phrases like “anti-American” and “war on American energy” to describe President Obama’s new plan to combat climate change, escalating the rhetoric even before the President’s Georgetown University speech outlining his program. “President Obama’s anti-American energy p...

Mexico Passes Climate Change Law

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 in Climate Change

A law recently passed by the Mexican legislature will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by 30 percent below business-as-usual levels by 2020, and by 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, reported Nature. By 2024, Mexico will also derive 35 percent of its electricity from renewable resources, accord...