Global Warming and Climate Change News

Penn St. proceeding with scientist e-mail scrutiny
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 7:21 pm

A Penn State University internal inquiry dismissed three allegations of research improprieties against a leading climate scientist but recommended further investigation into one allegation regarding leaked e-mails about global warming. [News Source]

G-7 ministers are pawns in warming Arctic
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 4:08 pm

Iqaluit, a town of 7,000 in Canada's Nunavut Territory, is hosting the Group of 7 economic summit this week.Canada is hosting this week's Group of 7 economic meeting in a small town in the Arctic, in part to emphasize its claims to areas being warmed up and opened up.


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Obama unveils coal, biofuel plans
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 3:41 pm

President Barack Obama is shown how low-energy LED lights are made during a tour Tuesday at Arc Energy in Nashua, N.H. Obama was in Nashua for a town hall meeting on jobs and the economy. Hoping to earn support from coal and farm states for an energy and climate bill, President Obama creates a task force to push for cleaner coal and unveils a plan to help finance biofuels.


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Facts brushed over by global warming fanatics (Queensland Country Life)
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 3:37 pm

HERE are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day. All these anti-commandments are either true or backed by scientific opinion. All can also be hotly contested. [News Source]

Facts brushed over by global warming fanatics (Queensland Country Life)
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 3:37 pm

HERE are 10 anti-commandments, 10 selected facts about global warming which have been largely ignored amid the orthodoxies to which we are subjected every day. All these anti-commandments are either true or backed by scientific opinion. All can also be hotly contested. [News Source]

Warming melts winter fun, Colo. warns
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 12:54 pm

Artificial snow is one way ski areas cope with climate conditions, including this scene in November 2007 at Crested Butte, Colo.Colorado's $2 billion winter sports industry and millions of acres of forests are threatened by warming temperatures in the state, business and conservation leaders say.


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Global warming good for trees, bad for ducks: studies (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 12:23 pm

Global warming is good news for trees, which are thriving in higher temperatures and longer growing seasons, but bad news for ducks and other waterfowl, whose wetland habitat may dry up and disappear, two studies show. [News Source]

Global warming good for trees, bad for ducks: studies (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 12:23 pm

Global warming is good news for trees, which are thriving in higher temperatures and longer growing seasons, but bad news for ducks and other waterfowl, whose wetland habitat may dry up and disappear, two studies show. [News Source]

Negative energy.
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 9:00 am

With the Senate cap-and-trade bill on ice for the foreseeable future, a key bloc of Democrats is agitating for a Climate Plan B: an existing energy policy bill that lacks any kind of cap on carbon, and contains many concessions to the oil, coal, gas, and nuclear industries. [News Source]

Negative energy.
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 9:00 am

With the Senate cap-and-trade bill on ice for the foreseeable future, a key bloc of Democrats is agitating for a Climate Plan B: an existing energy policy bill that lacks any kind of cap on carbon, and contains many concessions to the oil, coal, gas, and nuclear industries. [News Source]

California sets up statewide network to monitor global-warming gases.
Wednesday February 03rd 2010, 9:00 am

California is preparing to introduce the first statewide system of monitoring devices to detect global-warming emissions, installing them on towers throughout the state. [News Source]