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10 Things to Know for Monday
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17.6.2013 |
Star Tribune: Nation |
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Overheated Frauds and Fools
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13.6.2013 |
American Spectator |
| The Age of Global Warming: A History
By Rupert Darwall
(Quartet Books, 448 pages, $45)
Who can forget it? In April 2008, as he campaigned for the Democratic nomination for president, Barack Obama intoned that history would say of his election, “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” The messianic declaration sounded over-the-top laughable, political theater meets theater of the absurd. But the future president was completely serious. He was pledging to treat man-made climate change as a real and present danger to the United States and the world.
Mr. Obama assumed office almost a year after delivering those remarks. Bringing with him a nearly filibuster-proof Senate in a Congress of his own party, perhaps the most left-liberal national legislature in American history, he rushed to make good on this declaration of priorities. He vaulted cap and trade, the domestic policy nirvana of global warming activists, into the top tier of his ... |
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[sattva_1 :: air]
[flenvcenter :: Policy]
[newstrust :: Climate change]
[newstrust :: Global warming]
[newstrust :: Greenhouse Gases]
[newstrust :: Legal Strategies]
[newstrust :: Strategies]
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[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
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Matthew M. Aid: Inside the NSA's ultra-secret China hacking group
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12.6.2013 |
Twincities.com: Opinion |
| Last weekend, U.S. President Barack Obama sat down for a series of meetings with China's newly appointed leader, Xi Jinping. We know that the two leaders spoke at length about the topic du jour -- cyber-espionage -- a subject that has long frustrated officials in Washington and is now front and center with the revelations of sweeping U.S. data mining. The media has focused at length on China's aggressive attempts to electronically steal U.S. military and commercial secrets, but Xi pushed back at the "shirt-sleeves" summit, noting that China, too, was the recipient of cyber-espionage. But what Obama probably neglected to mention is that he has his own hacker army, and it has burrowed its way deep, deep into China's networks. |
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Best of the Web Today: The Anti-Mentor Responds
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31.5.2013 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| A strange new factual claim in a long-settled dispute at law. |
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Heartland Institute wastes real scientists' time – yet again | John Abraham
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20.5.2013 |
Guardian: Science |
| Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring?
This spring, I began receiving calls and emails from colleagues about a strange little book that was mailed to environmental science professors around the country. This was a big mailing, in total, a reported 100,000 copies were sent out . What was it about this little book that got us talking? Many things. First, a coordinated mailing of a book is unusual. But what is more unusual is a book that purports to be the "real story" about climate change, with graphs, figures, and tables. It came with a foreward by Senator Harrison Schmitt who is well known for misrepresenting the science. There was also an accompanying letter by Fred Singer. Many of us already know of Fred Singer; he was focused on in an excellent book by Dr Naomi Oreskes who catalogued his history of undermining the science and concerns related to second-hand smoke, ozone depletion, and acid rain. The letter ... |
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The IRS Tea Party Scandal, Explained
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14.5.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| On Friday, May 10, a top official with the Internal Revenue Service dropped a bombshell. IRS staffers had singled out conservative organizations with "tea party" or "patriots" in their name that were seeking tax-exempt nonprofit status, subjecting them to extra scrutiny to see if they were abusing the tax law as it relates to political activity. They grilled these conservative groups about their members, their donors, their public statements, and who they employed. And there is no evidence yet that the IRS systemically treated non-conservative groups with the same level of attention.
Speaking to a group of tax lawyers, the IRS official, Lois Lerner, who oversees the agency's exempt organizations division, publicly apologized for the IRS's actions. Ever since, Democratic and Republican politicians have been falling over themselves to condemn the IRS. President Obama said that, if the allegations are true, "there's no place" for such behavior. Members of Congress have pledged to investigate any ... |
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Experts: CO2 record illustrates 'scary' trend
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12.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Latest |
| The old saying that "what goes up must come down" doesn't apply to carbon dioxide pollution in the air, which just hit an unnerving milestone. |
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[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
[demo :: Climate change]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
[irge304 :: Pollution]
[irge304 :: Environmental Justice]
[sattva_1 :: energy]
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The Most Controversial Chart in History, Explained
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9.5.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| Join us for an in-person conversation with Michael Mann at Climate Desk Live on Wednesday May 15 at 6:30 p.m. in Washington DC.
To attend, please RSVP to cdl@climatedesk.org .
Back in 1998, a little known climate scientist named Michael Mann and two colleagues published a paper that sought to reconstruct the planet's past temperatures going back half a millennium before the era of thermometers—thereby showing just how out of whack recent warming has been. The finding: Recent northern hemisphere temperatures had been "warmer than any other year since (at least) AD 1400." The graph depicting this result looked rather like a hockey stick: After a long period of relatively minor temperature variations (the "shaft"), it showed a sharp mercury upswing during the last century or so ("the blade").
The report moved quickly through climate science circles. Mann and a colleague soon lengthened the shaft of the hockey stick back to the year 1000 AD—and then, in 2001, the UN's ... |
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How Shutterfly and Other Social Sites Leave Your Kids Vulnerable to Hackers
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3.5.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| This spring, with millions of kids across the United States participating in sports leagues and other activities, coaches and harried parents are turning to social sharing websites to keep everything running smoothly. The most popular option is Shutterfly, which boasted around 5 million visitors per month as of March 2012. Shutterfly's free "Team" service allows users (which includes anyone over 13) to upload photos of kids, home addresses, emails, gender information, phone numbers, school names, jersey numbers, and game schedules—all in one place. The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) has a partnership with Shutterfly, and coaches actively encourage parents and coaches from over 50,000 soccer teams to utilize the service.
But there's a catch: Even though Shutterfly's privacy policy claims that the whole site is protected with SSL—a strong form of Internet security used to prevent websites from being hacked into—it isn't actually using the encryption for much of the ... |
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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps
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29.4.2013 |
Twincities.com: News |
| PITTSBURGH—The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change? |
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EPA report that lowers methane-leak estimates further divides fracking camps
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29.4.2013 |
Star Tribune: Nation |
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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps
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28.4.2013 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change? |
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EPA methane report further divides fracking camps
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28.4.2013 |
AP Top News |
| PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, in a shift with major implications for a debate that has divided environmentalists: Does the recent boom in fracking help or hurt the fight against climate change?... |
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[flenvcenter :: Oil and Gas]
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[flenvcenter :: Climate Policy]
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[newstrust :: Climate change]
[newstrust :: Greenhouse Gases]
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[sattva_1 :: air]
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[irge304 :: Oil Exploration]
[sattva_1 :: climate]
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[flenvcenter :: Media]
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Down to minus 45
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22.4.2013 |
Hindu: Opinion |
| A freezing Russian spring has reignited the climate change debate |
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[subbu :: Climate change]
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The Power of False Narratives
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18.4.2013 |
ConsortiumNews.com |
| The Power of False Narratives |
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Al Gore Is Fat, Therefore Global Warming Doesn't Exist
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11.4.2013 |
Mother Jones |
| Ever notice that when conservatives want to attack the science of global warming—or the idea that we ought to do something about it—they almost always find a way to rope in Al Gore? Occasionally, they even try to debunk the science by denigrating Gore personally, in a kind of guilt-by-association gambit.
One of the most striking examples came from Ann Coulter, who wrote in a column in early 2007:
The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me—we have to do something about saving the polar bears."
Never mind his carbon footprint—have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.
Funny stuff, huh? Coulter's attacks on the former vice president's weight were extreme—but new academic research on conservative syndicated columnists and their writings on global warming suggests that ... |
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Feelin' queasy: More air turbulence over Atlantic
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10.4.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Feelin' queasy: More air turbulence over Atlantic |
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[demo :: Greenhouse Gases]
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Study: More pollution means more air turbulence
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10.4.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Study: More pollution means more air turbulence |
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[newstrust :: Climate change]
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Study: More pollution means more air turbulence
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10.4.2013 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| Buckle up. |
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Study: More pollution means more air turbulence
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10.4.2013 |
Seattle Times: Top stories |
| Buckle up. |
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