Wis. US Sen. hopeful: Global warming ‘unproven’ Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson said Thursday that global warming was an "unproven" science that shouldn't be used to dictate U.S. policies. [News Source]

Wis. US Sen. hopeful: Global warming ‘unproven’ Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson said Thursday that global warming was an "unproven" science that shouldn't be used to dictate U.S. policies. [News Source]

Wis. US Senate hopeful Johnson says global warming ‘unproven,’ shouldn’t dictate US policy MILWAUKEE - Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson says global warming is an "unproven" science that shouldn't dictate U.S. policies. The Republican business owner said Thursday that domestic efforts to curtail global warming would hurt American businesses and send jobs overseas. [News Source]

U.S. Needs Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change The United States needs to develop a national strategy to adapt to climate change, according to a new report commissioned by the White House. [More] [News Source]

How Republicans Managed to Rebrand ‘Cap and Trade’ A sliver of Americans worry that climate change is the invention of plotting communists, international liberals or U.S. offic... [News Source]

Are American homes more energy efficient? Not exactly. The amount of energy that the average American requires at home has changed little since the early 1970s - despite advances in technology that have made many home appliances far more energy efficient. [News Source]

The road to more fuel-efficient cars is the one less taken by consumers AND automakers. A car purchased today can extract nearly twice as much power from a gallon of gas as it did 25 years ago. The trouble is that over the same period, cars have become bigger and more powerful. So the average mileage of these cars has barely budged since 1985. [News Source]

Ontario to shut 4 power plants in coal phase out. Ontario will shut about 2,000 megawatts of coal-fired power generation on Friday to reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions to combat global warming and improve health. These plant closures mark nearly a decade of effort to close the province's coal plants and move toward a cleaner energy future. [News Source]

Paris auto show focuses on green cars. The show highlights industry hopes that the cars of tomorrow will be electric - even as automakers race to build more of today's cars in China. [News Source]

‘River crisis’ worsens threat of water scarcity. The vast majority of the world's rivers are reeling from pollution, over-development and excessive extraction, and billions of dollars of investment by rich countries to avert water stress have damaged biodiversity, a study released on Wednesday said. [News Source]

Oil spill cleanup on Florida beaches shifting to next stage. The effort to clean oil from Florida's shoreline is shifting gears, federal and BP officials announced Wednesday. Rather than have crews constantly sweeping the beaches and marshes for tarballs from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, they will pull back and wait to be summoned. [News Source]