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42 min ago | Bay of Plenty Times

Big bucks back misinformation

Write a regular column on sustainability and it's natural to discuss climate-change facts and issues from time to time.

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4 hrs ago | The Peninsula

China 'will not accept' carbon tax on EU flights

BEIJING: China will not pay for CO2 emissions by its airlines on flights within Europe, a top civil aviation official reportedly said after the European Commission warned eight Chinese firms face fines for nonpayment.

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9 hrs ago | Scoop

SMC Heads-Up: Climate consensus, Budget, mental disorders

A team of citizen scientists backed by the University of Queensland have analysed 20 years of peer-reviewed literature on climate change, showing 97 per cent of papers endorse the position that humans are contributing to climate change.

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13 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Obama's Arctic Strategy Sets Off a Climate Time Bomb

One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years.

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Related Topix: Environment, Science, US News, Liberal Political News

17 hrs ago | GPB.org

Not Your Grandpa's RV: This Roving Lab Tracks Air Pollution

This map shows methane measurements Ira Leifer took as he drove in his RV around the Los Angeles basin.

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Related Topix: Environment, Science, UC Santa Barbara, California

21 hrs ago | St. Petersburg Times

Editorial: Time running out to address climate change

The big threat to Florida's future that elected leaders aren't talking about: the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Related Topix: Oceanography, Science, Opinion

Fri May 17, 2013

AllSmallCars

Gumball Supercar Rally Now Carbon Neutral, But Hardly Green

Antony is an automotive obsessive: Whether it drives, sits there looking pretty or intrigues from afar, he'll talk and write about it.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Alternative Energy, Energy

The Guardian

Zombie climate sceptic theories

According to an email obtained by Media Matters, Bill Sammon imposed an order on Fox News journalists to cast doubt on climate change.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Activism

Common Dreams

Hansen: Burning Tar Sands = 'Unsolvable' Climate Crisis

Fresh off his resignation from NASA, leading climate scientist James Hansen is making the rounds this week, warning media and lawmakers that not only are we heading for a "tremendously chaotic" climate, but if we dig up and burn Canadian tar sands, the climate crisis will be rendered "unsolvable." Hansen told a a panel of U.K. lawmakers , the ... (more)

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Related Topix: US News, Liberal Political News

The Guardian

Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist

Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist.

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Alternative Energy Stocks

Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels

Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon be on the decline.

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Weather

Inhabitat

America's First Climate Refugees are Native Alaskan Communities

For many years, climate change has displaced millions in the developing world - and now America is seeing its first climate refugees .

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Related Topix: Alaska, Alaska Government, US News, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Strata-Sphere

Arctic Warming Could Be Caused By Seismic Activity, Including...

A long, long time ago I postulated that "Global Warming" is more likely due to dynamics in the Earth's crust than human produced CO2.

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Related Topix: Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Energy

Thu May 16, 2013

American Reporter

a.R. EssayTHE Other Answer to Global Terrorism

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June 7, 2011 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech on May 23 in Washington, D.C., in which he said, "I envision an Israel that can dedicate even more of its creative and scientific talents to help solve some of the great challenges of the day, foremost of which is finding a clean and affordable substitute ... (more)

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Israel, World News, Middle East, Environment, Science, Saudi Arabia

WHIO

Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief

Moniz, 68, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama 's first term.

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Related Topix: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat, Environment, Science

The Gazette

Some scientists disagree that global warming is a threat

Gazette columnist Jennifer Hemmingsen has written that global warming is right now a danger to the United States and steps need to be taken now to mitigate this danger.

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AlertNet

Climate Change Is Happening?? So What?

US Army Corps of Engineers tours flooded areas in Burlington, North Dakota in 2011.

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Related Topix: US News, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Weather, Activism

Scientific American

Solving the Case of California's Extra Methane

In Southern California, scientists knew the missing methane had to be coming from somewhere.

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TreeHugger

Meet America's first climate refugees

The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.

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Related Topix: Newtok, AK, Shishmaref, AK

Wed May 15, 2013

AlertNet

Scientists say united on global warming, at odds with public...

Ninety-seven percent of scientists say global warming is mainly man-made but a wide public belief that experts are divided is making it harder to gain support for policies to curb climate change, an international study showed on Thursday.

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