Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
Scientists in Utah are pushing back against some state lawmakers' attempts to dismiss global warming, saying that a resolution approved by the House last week is misleading about the science on the issue.
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Utah lawmakers stir global warming debate.
Climate scientists admit fresh error over data on rising sea levels.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
Climate experts have been forced to admit another embarrassing error in their most recent report on the threat of climate change.
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Delegates decry cap-and-trade at Farm Bureau event.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
Delegates attending the American Farm Bureau Federation in Seattle voted to oppose cap-and-trade climate legislation because it would raise production costs and drive potential benefits of agriculture to the negative side of the ledger.
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Climate change threat to natural resources.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
Global warming and climate change are posing a viable threat to our natural resources, said Pakistan's Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi. While climate change affects all aspects of life and ecosystems, its impact on wetlands is more pronounced, he said.
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Environmental tragedies pose a viable threat to our assets, says Afridi.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
Federal Minister for Environment Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi has said that our natural resources are indeed our valuable assets and that environmental tragedies, like global warming and climate change, pose a viable threat to our assets.
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World may not be warming, say scientists.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.
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Wetlands can remedy severe weather patterns.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
The impacts of climate change can be seen in greater frequency and intensity of hurricanes and coastal storms, unseasonal rains and floods, drought, acute water shortages, and glacial melt, Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi said Saturday.
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Project turns trash into usable energy.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
The long-dormant landfill is a simmering 50 acres of household garbage, rich with the potential to generate energy from methane gas.
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Senator questions Obama’s coal policy.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller is questioning President Obama’s policy on coal, saying during a recent Senate committee hearing that the president is “beginning to not be believable to me.”
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BP still a good friend to the environment, says Lord Browne.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
The former chief executive of BP, who led the company for more than a decade, said he "very much hoped" the oil major would not shy away from his pioneering recognition of the dangers of global warming.
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Obama nuke plant loan reflects new energy strategy.
Sunday February 14th 2010, 9:00 am
The Obama administration's planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the U.S in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming.
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