Climate bill to pay hundreds of dollars in rebates

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Low-income families will receive hundreds of dollars a year to help pay higher energy bills if Congress enacts the first-ever limits on the gases blamed for global warming, according to a new analysis. But it is unclear just how much ...
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In Bid for Re-Election, New Jersey's Governor Plays to Party Faithful

New York Times, United States
Republican Christie is silent on global warming and will cut environmental protection. Jon Corzine's creating jobs and making New Jersey a leader in green, renewable energy. So who stands with you?" ON THE SCREEN Illustrations of the candidates, ...
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ACORN Enters the Highly Lucrative Global Warming Hysteria Business

American Spectator
By Matthew Vadum on 6.8.09 @ 6:56PM Now the ACORN crime family is jumping on the global warming alarmism bandwagon, according to (the left-leaning) Worldwatch Institute. The radical community group, which is now facing voter registration fraud charges ...
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Climate Expert Charges Canada "Bullying" To Change Kyoto Protocol

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Vancouver, British Columbia (AHN) - The Canadian government is bullying developing nations into pushing for changes in an international environmental agreement, a climate change analyst charged Monday.. Dale Marshall of the David Suzuki Foundation ...
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Advisory group backs Midwest climate plan

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI
By Thomas Content of the Journal Sentinel An advisory group to the Midwestern Governors Association has endorsed a plan to reduce the region's emissions linked to global warming by 20% between 2005 and 2020. The goal of the group is for a Midwestern ...
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US Seeks Global Warming Deal with China

The New American
One of the signature issues of the Obama administration will be the hammering out of a replacement for the failed Kyoto accord on global warming. Talks brokered by the United Nations aimed at replacing Kyoto are scheduled to begin in Copenhagen in just ...
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The Global warming debates: Part 2 of Examiner.com's exclusive ...

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We started the second part of our interview with Dr. Pielke Sr. (see Part 1 here), by trying to check our own understanding of climate change and global warming. When you get the chance to have an expert check your work, it would be silly not to.
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Midwest governors group sets goals to reduce greenhouse gases

Kansas City Star, MO
Meanwhile, the group hopes the recommendations become part of the national climate change debate. While seven Western states and 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states have already crafted regional cap-and-trade systems, the new recommendations represent ...
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Midwest governors group sets greenhouse gas goals

Chicago Tribune, United States
Regulates the amount of greenhouse gases a utility, manufacturer or other large entity can emit through a system that creates financial incentives for emissions reductions. In the beginning, regulators would distribute most of the emissions allowances ...
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Questions on EPA's Cost Estimates for Waxman-Markey Climate Change ...

Heritage.org, DC
by David Kreutzer, Ph.D. and Nicolas Loris The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) analysis of the economic impact of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill relies on a variety of assumptions. These assumptions strongly bias the cost downward when ...
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Health, climate change vie for boost in US Congress

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Expanding health care to the uninsured and reducing pollution associated with climate change would have an economic impact on nearly every consumer and most US companies -- from health insurers and utilities, to oil refineries, ailing automakers, ...
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Does North Korea Want a Visit From Al Gore?

New York Times, United States
If Mr. Gore does get the call, it seems that he will not need to pack his famous slide show on the dangers posed by climate change, since North Korea has been saying for years that global warming is a "hazard to humankind.
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New Tech Could Make Nuclear the Best Weapon Against Climate Change

Discover Magazine, NY
by Elizabeth Svoboda In December 20, 1951, just outside the tiny town of Arco, Idaho, four 100-watt lightbulbs strung on a single cord flickered to life and then glowed brightly, becoming the first appliances ever powered by nuclear energy.
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Scary: Geoengineering means big ideas to fight climate change

OhMyGov!, DC
Using iron "seeding" to set off massive plankton growth in the ocean to slow climate change; creating artificial volcanic eruptions to release cooling sulfur into the atmosphere; increasing the solar reflectivity of clouds by adding sea-salt particles; ...
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Be Paid To Fight Climate Change?

New York Times, United States
Countries in poorer parts of the world like China and India are demanding that wealthier regions like the European Union and North America fund their efforts at developing clean energy technologies and help them adapt to the effects of climate change ...
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Crunch time for climate talks

Ottawa Citizen,  Canada
As the climate changes, densely populated South Asia is vulnerable to extremes of droughts and floods. Each new piece of scientific data makes it clearer that we're running out of time to take action on climate change. So the question is: Are we at the ...
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Calif. law linking land use, greenhouse gas emissions passes court ...

New York Times, United States
By COLIN SULLIVAN, Greenwire SAN FRANCISCO -- A California law aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from land-use changes has survived its first court challenge. A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line.
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Global Warming Effects and Causes: A Top 10 List

PlanetSave.com, CA
One of the biggest issues facing us right now is global warming. Its effects on animals and on agriculture are indeed frightening, and the effects on the human population are even scarier. The facts about global warming are often debated, ...
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Burger King restaurants throw doubt on global warming

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A Franchise owner of over 40 Burger King restaurants in the Tennessee area, has put up on some of his signs the following message, "Global warming is Baloney." No Burger King is not now selling baloney sandwiches. Burger King Corporate is trying to ...
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Carbon price must rise, IEA director says

Financial Post, Canada
The price of carbon emissions must rise to US$180 a metric ton by 2030 to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets, the executive director of the International Energy Agency said. "An energy revolution is necessary," Nobuo Tanaka said at the Asian Oil ...
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Fielding offered talks to sway climate stance

The Age, Australia
FAMILY First senator Steve Fielding has been offered a briefing from top scientists in a bid to change his view that climate change may not be caused by human activity. Climate Change and Water Minister Penny Wong made the offer yesterday after Senator ...
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How Much Should Poor Countries Be Paid To Fight Climate Change?

New York Times, United States
Countries in poorer parts of the world like China and India are demanding that wealthier regions like the European Union and North America fund their efforts at developing clean energy technologies and help them adapt to the effects of climate change ...
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Japan, Russia urged to issue 2020 greenhouse goals

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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, June 8 (Reuters) - Japan and Russia should publish 2020 goals for greenhouse gas emissions to help spur UN talks on a new climate treaty, the head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat said on Monday.
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US Climate Debate Plays Key Role in Global Fight to Protect Planet

Voice of America
By Kate Woodsome As countries around the world mark World Environment Day Friday, members of the US Congress are preparing to debate new legislation aimed to slow global warming. From Washington, voa's Kate Woodsome examines how actions in the United ...
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Al Gore Presses Climate-Change Bill From Just Off-Stage

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By RICK KLEIN Former Vice President Al Gore addressed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in... As Congress wrestles with politically explosive issues surrounding climate change and energy, Gore is simultaneously everywhere and ...
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Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

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I try not to post anything on climate change because I'm not qualified (like most people) to debate the scientific issues but also because I don't relish getting shouted at by frantic commenters. This recently published book [Climate Change ...
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Fielding feels heat over solar flare theory

ABC Online, Australia
By Emily Bourke for The World Today Family First Senator Stephen Fielding is under fire from the scientific community over his new-found belief that solar flares - not human activity - might be responsible for climate change.
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The economics of climate change mitigation: how to build the ...

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CITIZEN JOURNALISM: 'Realists' challenge claim of consensus on warming

Washington Times, DC
The conference, sponsored by the nonprofit Heartland Institute, hosted panels of climatologists and meteorologists as well as members of Congress to address questions surrounding global warming and climate-change legislation. In its 25 years, ...
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UK on track to meet its Kyoto greenhouse gas reduction targets

Click Green, UK
Published Mon 08 Jun 2009 10:28 The UK remains on track to almost double its greenhouse gas reduction obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a new report to the United Nations released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
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China and US Seek a Truce on Greenhouse Gases

New York Times, United States
By JOHN M. BRODER and JONATHAN ANSFIELD WASHINGTON - For months the United States and China, by far the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have been warily circling each other in hopes of breaking a long impasse on global warming policy.
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ANALYSIS-China wrestles climate quandary: growth vs CO2

Reuters
By Chris Buckley BEIJING, June 8 (Reuters) - Global warming is fast rising in the pile of crises facing China as it pursues the unshakeable goal of economic growth while grappling with international pressure to curb its greenhouse gas output.
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Jeff Vravel: When it comes to global warming, Burger King should ...

Norwich Bulletin, CT
(I'm stealing this from a blog commenter, too: "The signs should have said "Global Warming: One WHOPPER of a lie.") Now it must be noted that this is the work of a local franchiser, and does not reflect Burger King's corporate outlook, although one ...
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China and US in Cold War-like Negotiations for Truce on Emissions

New York Times, United States
As a senior American team arrived in Beijing on Sunday for climate talks, the standoff was taking on the trappings of cold-war arms control negotiations, with gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions replacing megatons of nuclear might as a looming risk ...
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Polar Bear Shafted Again

E/The Environmental Magazine, CT
The Secretary said in a conference call that the ESA is not the right tool for going after polluters despite the fact that "The single greatest threat to the polar bear is the melting of Arctic Sea ice due to climate change." Salazar would also have ...
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Burger King's "Global warming is baloney" more evidence of US decline

Georgia Straight, Canada
Two locations posted the words "Global warming is baloney" on the giant signs outside the outlets late last month. That caused Burger King Corp. to issue a statement saying that these restaurants are owned by franchisees and the message didn't reflect ...
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For China-US Talks on Climate, Issues Old and New

New York Times, United States
As a senior American team arrived in Beijing on Sunday for climate talks, the standoff was taking on the trappings of cold-war arms control negotiations, with gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions replacing megatons of nuclear might as a looming risk ...
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Global warming to push London temperatures up to 105F

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
London could regularly see temperatures of 105F (41C) and south-west England could be hot enough to grow grapes and sunflowers, according to a map of how climate change will affect Britain in 2080. by Alastair Jamieson Winters in Scotland and the north ...
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'Global Warming is Baloney' Signs Put the Heat on Burger King

Common Dreams (press release), ME
by Leo Hickman A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is baloney". The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment ...
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Addressing climate change

DAWN.com, Pakistan
By Hina Lotia For Pakistan, the cost of inaction to the climate change challenge will be quite high. What are we doing about it? - File 'The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.' - George Bernard Shaw Many ...
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Climate Change Legislative Update

Helicopter Association International, VA
House Speaker Pelosi stressed Thursday, June 4 that a June 19 deadline for committees to finish work on a climate and energy bill is flexible, while strong signs still point to Ways and Means Democrats forgoing putting their stamp on the bill.
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Our Duty to Lead on Climate Change

Washington Post, United States
While the Waxman-Markey bill's goals for curbing greenhouse gases are not as ambitious as many environmentalists would like, domestic action on climate change by the United States would have tremendous political benefits, such as garnering broader ...
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UK will beat Kyoto greenhouse gas reduction goals

TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia
By Susan Wilson The UK will almost double its Kyoto Protocol goal of 12.5 percent reduction of greenhouse gases below 1990 levels by 2010. Right now, it looks as if the UK will actually have a greenhouse gas reduction of 23 percent below 1990 levels.
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Global warming and a tale of two planets

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Kofi Annan claims that global warming is already "killing 300000 people a year". The situation looks a little different in the real world, says Christopher Booker. By Christopher Booker It might well be called "the tale of two planets".
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Conservative senator says Obama Cairo speech 'un-American'

Prison Planet.com
The senator who once famously declared that global warming was the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" has now moved on to President Barack Obama. In comments made to an Oklahoma news outlet, Sen. James Inhofe (R-KN) declared ...
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Where are Progressives on Climate Change?

Daily Kos, CA
(In face of catastrophic climate change, it is hard to see how "progressive" issues will receive resources or even be seriously on the table.) Has the tide turned? Are Progressives about to come to the table ... On May 29, a number of groups sent a ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Columbia Basin Herald, WA
We all know that there are activists who take things too far, and that they represent both sides of the issue of climate change. Supporters of global climate change theory find them to be an embarrassment, and yet they seem to get more press than the ...
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To Fight Global Warming, Eat Less Corn and More Flaxseed…If You're ...

AllGov, CA
Cows could become a greater threat to global warming than cars or SUVs, scientists insist, which has prompted farmers in the US and Europe to experiment with the diets of bovines. At issue is the tremendous amount of methane gas that cows expel as a ...
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'Worse Than Fiction'

Wall Street Journal
So when one of those experts says that a recent report on the effects of climate change is "worse than fiction, it is a lie," the alarmists should, well, be alarmed. The latest contretemps pits former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, now president of ...
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No Climate Change Fix Without New Land Use, Farming Policies

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By climatebiz Staff - climatebiz Staff The world cannot effectively address climate change without altering our relationship with soil, the world's third largest carbon pool, according to a new report. Changing the way we manage land and produce food ...
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