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A controversial e-mail message buried by the Bush administration because of its conclusions on global warming surfaced Tuesday, nearly two years after it was first sent to the White House and never opened.
President Barack Obama's so-called green team has undergone a growth spurt.
Global warming is threatening America's national parks. But there is no consensus about how to prevent the harm.
Reversing global warming will cost up to $185 billion (euro130 billion) a year before 2020 and require more action by world governments than currently pledged, an international environmental analysis group said Thursday.
University of Colorado researchers say global warming increases the chances that the Colorado River system's reservoirs could be depleted by mid-century.
The world's biggest polluters made progress on a global deal to finance efforts to fight global warming and help poor countries cope with it, the French hosts of climate talks said Tuesday.
A tiny mammal that can't handle warm weather could become the first animal in the lower 48 states to get Endangered Species Act protection primarily because of climate change.
The American pika — a short-legged, hamster-sized fur ball that huddles in high mountain slopes — isn't built for long-distance travel.
The Senate has endorsed using revenues from controversial cap-and-trade auctions of permits for emitting greenhouse gases to help consumers pay higher gasoline and electricity prices.
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first step on the long road to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare for large-scale change, scientists warned in a report released Wednesday.
Australia may be getting a glimpse of its globally warmed future.
When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn't a canary at all. It's a purple finch.
The federal government on Friday settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing energy projects overseas without considering their impacts on global warming.
Former Vice President Al Gore presented lawmakers on Wednesday with a new inconvenient truth: Action on global warming cannot wait until the economy recovers.
The Bush administration is trying to make sure in its final days that federal air pollution regulations will not be used to control the gases blamed for global warming.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
The head of a House global warming panel says Congress should grant a waiver to allow California and other states to impose stricter emission rules than the federal standard.
Democrats are fighting over control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the outcome could affect President-elect Obama's efforts to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
With the presidential election less than a month away and the economy reeling, House Democratic leaders on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from power plants, transportation and factories by 80 percent come 2050.
Voluntary pollution-reduction programs touted by the Bush administration as part of the solution to global warming have "limited potential" to reduce greenhouse gases, according to an internal government watchdog.
Government scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
Global warming could worsen smog and stretch what typically is a summer pollution problem into the spring and fall, government scientists predicted Thursday.
A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare.
Vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Vaccine (VPSTD1) Announced By CDC: Administration To Consider Mandatory Vaccination Policy, Millions of Jobs Saved, Ultimate Success At Mercy Of Climate Change, International Unity And Cooperation Emphasized
Coal Industries' Handy Youth Indoctrination GuideSomeone just sent one of the most ridiculous pieces of propaganda the coal lobby has produced to date. Put out by the West Virginia Coal Association and their Friends of Coal front group, the "Let's Learn About Coal" coloring book, pretty much speaks for itself.
Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) Now AvailableIs Global Warming Really Caused By Human Activity? Is It Worth The Global Economic Trouble The Theory Has Spawned? "2009 Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)," Says No!
Panel OKs climate-change bill without GOPThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a sweeping climate-change bill, with none of the panel's seven Republicans participating in the 11-1 vote.
Democrats Push Climate Bill Through Panel Without G.O.P. Debate In a step that reflected deep partisan divisions in the Senate over the issue of global warming, Democrats on the Environment and Public Works Committee pushed through a climate bill on Thursday without any debate or participation by Republicans.
Senate Democrats advance climate bill without GOPSenate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage. Other committees still must weigh-in on the measure, but the partisan antics early on threatened to cast a pall over th …
Lord Monckton Warns of Global Climate Change Treaty: Is American Sovereignty at stake?Lord Monckton, an expert on global climate change, is shouting warnings at Americans about an upcoming treaty to be signed in December in Copenhagen. Monckton claims the treaty is worded such that it opens the door for America to lose her sovereignty and a NWO to arise.
Angry words as timetable for climate deal starts to slipGreen groups and activists for the developing world on Thursday accused rich nations of tiptoeing away from vows to seal a binding, far-reaching UN treaty on climate change in Copenhagen next month. Their bitter response came after European Union (EU) negotiators in Barcelona sp …
Forests in the desert: the answer to climate change? | Technology | The GuardianClimate change could be cancelled out in a staggeringly ambitious plan to plant the Sahara desert and Australian outback with trees. The scale of the ambition is matched only by the promised rewards – the scientists behind the plan say it could "end global warming".
GOP Senators on Environment Committee Hit All-Time Low, Third-Graders Have More MaturityWhy the Party of No is now being called the Party of No Show.
Deforestation: Not So Bad for the Climate?New research shows that destroying the world's tropical forests doesn't lead to the amount of man-made emissions as previously claimed by a U.N. study.
Inhofe, Boxer hold hands but impasse continuesSenator Inhofe's own hearing in 2006 refutes his claim that" Global Warming is a hoax.". Although two of the four scientists who testified are climate skeptics, all four of scientists said the Earth had warmed.
North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting As Ocean Temperatures WarmJust more undeniable proof to add to the Mountains of Evidence that Gore's correct and the Deniers are Flat-Earthers.
Climate change belief given same legal status as religionIn a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".
Republicans give global-warming hearing the cold shoulderThe senators' nameplates were lined up neatly on the green felt. A row of black leather chairs awaited senatorial bottoms. The microphones were live and the water iced.
Global warming tribunal may stoke argument that climate change is based on belief, not scienceSo now we know that, according to an employment appeal judge, it is possible in the eyes of the law to have a "philosophical belief" that man-made climate change is real and that the "resulting moral imperative" to take action is justified.
Snow cap disappearing from Mount KilimanjaroThe snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers report.
Al Gore Set To Become First "Carbon Billionaire" Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
Gore's Dual Role - Advocate and Investor - NYTimes.comMr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.
GOP Senators Warn Boxer on Climate-Bill Strategy Six ranking Republican U.S. senators Monday warned the head of the environment committee that pushing ahead with a vote on a landmark climate bill this week would "severely damage" the chances of passing the legislation.
America's Natural Gas Revolution The biggest energy innovation of the decade is natural gas—more specifically what is called "unconventional" natural gas. Some call it a revolution.
Urban Growth Versus Global WarmingHouses on stilts, small scale energy generation and recycling our dishwater are just some of the measures that are being proposed to prepare our cities for the effects of global warming.
As if Iraq and Afghanistan weren't enough, President Obama has engaged in yet another war, and this one might be felt a little closer to home. Obama's foe? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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