Boxer assails Fiorina over global warming law rollback The Democratic senator says Fiorina is 'in the pocket of big oil,' while the Republican says the state's climate change law 'isn't the right answer.' Each accuses the other of endangering jobs. Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said Friday that rival Carly Fiorina's recent embrace of a November ballot measure that would roll back the state's landmark global warming law was evidence that the ... [News Source]

Global Warming & Its Causes What is global warning? Chn find out what global warming is and how humans have caused and are contributing to the problem. Chn compare life now to life 100 years ago and highlight the changes which have increased CO2 levels. [News Source]

Prop. 23 Seeks to Suspend California’s Landmark Global Warming Law, Assembly Bill 32 ORINDA, Calif. — There is a growing shift in the global warming controversy. Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish scientist and prominent climate skeptic who wrote the book The Skeptical Environmentalist in 2001, now calls for a $100 billion per year global warming investment, saying "Climate change is undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today." In California, the question is not if, but ... [News Source]

Climate change education partnership program is launched ( National Science Foundation ) Introducing cutting-edge science topics can be a challenge, due to the constantly evolving nature of scientific research. But an innovative new science education program aims to meet that challenge when educating students, teachers and the public about global climate change and its impacts. [News Source]

U.S. National Parks Threatened by Climate Change The report addresses how climate change could affect small sites like Jamestown and one very big one, the gorgeous Shenandoah National Park and its famed Blue Ridge Highway, built during the New Deal as one of FDR's showcase work generation projects. [News Source]

Combat climate change with less gassy diet for cows: study Climate change can be curbed by changing the diet of livestock, whose feed crops, farting, belching and manure contribute a fifth of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions, a new study said Friday. [News Source]

Climate Change’s Biggest Threat Comes From Stuff We Haven’t Built Yet, Still Time To Turn It Around: Study If you think all the carbon-spewing stuff we've built to date, from power plants to cars to airplanes, will just drag us over the climate change tipping point, think again. A new study, published in the journal Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology shows that there is still sufficient time (just) to transition to cleaner technologies. [News Source]

Civil war in Africa has no link to climate change Prosperity rather than climate change seems to govern the incidence of civil war in Africa [News Source]

RyanAir CEO: “Global Warming Is Bull$#it” Michael O'Leary's scathing assault on the scientific theory targeted not just the idea of global warming itself, but those who perpetuate it. [News Source]

12 states ask Supreme Court to review greenhouse gas ‘nuisance’ case. Challenging the appropriateness of using the courts to address climate change, Indiana and 11 other states are urging the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision that would allow greenhouse gas emitters to be sued for their contribution to global warming. [News Source]

The irrigation juggernaut. Scientists have found that widespread irrigation is altering weather patterns and probably masking the effects of global warming in some localities. [News Source]