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Last Entry: March 26, 2011 at 11:52:40

DailyTech - Dark Matter in the Sun May be Sustaining Life on Earth

Posted on July 13, 2010
Is life on Earth possible thanks to a bizarre solar effect of dark matter? via www.dailytech.comIs life on Earth possible thanks to a bizarre solar effect of dark matter? A mystery that has puzzled scientists for some time now is...

Antarctic glacier melt maybe 'not due to climate change' ? The Register

Posted on June 21, 2010
British and international boffins, having probed an Antarctic glacier which is thought to be a major cause of rising sea levels worldwide, report that increased polar ice melting may not be driven by climate change. *** Many scientists have theorised...

And business thought it couldn?t

Posted on June 18, 2010
And business thought it couldn?t get any worse in California? With an unemployment rate in this State over 12%, one would have thought that the Legislature would have said ?whoa!? (at least for awhile) in Sacramento?s continuing efforts to drive...

Environmentalists give Barack Obama a pass on oil spill - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com

Posted on June 12, 2010
Last week, it seemed, environmentalists were finally ready to let loose on President Barack Obama over the Gulf oil spill. Actress Q?orianka Kilcher chained herself to the White House fence while her mother slathered the ?Pocahontas? star in black paint...

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Overwhelming stench from monstrous stain on the sea - Times Online

Posted on June 01, 2010
Only from the air can the enormity and hopelessness of the situation be comprehended. Even before Lieutenant Rene Baez of the US Coast Guard lowers the ramp of the surveillance aircraft in which we are flying, opening up the cabin...

UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change' | Environment | The Guardian

Posted on May 23, 2010
Goods and services from the natural world should be factored into the global economic system, says UN biodiversity report ? Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet via www.guardian.co.uk "The TEEB report shows that on average...

Are You Ready For Global Cooling? - IBD - Investors.com

Posted on May 21, 2010
Climate Science: Noted scientists at a Chicago climate conference declare that global warming is not only dead, but that the planet faces a big chill for decades to come. What about those frozen wind turbines? It's not exactly Copenhagen or...

Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'

Posted on May 15, 2010
In the following interview, Dr. Willie Soon, a solar and climate scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, questions the prevailing dogma of man-made global warming and challenges his peers to ?take back climate science.? His remarks are his personal...

EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases - Yahoo! News

Posted on May 13, 2010
WASHINGTON ? The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to more tightly control air pollution from large power plants, factories and oil refineries, a step to limit emissions widely blamed for global warming. The EPA said it is completing a rule...

Bill Gates pays for ?artificial? clouds to beat greenhouse gases - Times Online

Posted on May 12, 2010
The first trials of controversial sunshielding technology are being planned after the United Nations failed to secure agreement on cutting greenhouse gases. Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every...

Whoops! CO2 has almost nothing to do with global warming, discovers top US meteorologist ? Telegraph Blogs

Posted on May 05, 2010
Dr Spencer, formerly senior scientist for climate studies at NASA, now leads the US science team for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSRE) on NASA?s Aqua satellite. He co-developed the original satellite method for precise monitoring of global...

FT.com / US / Politics & Foreign policy - White House defends oil spill response

Posted on May 03, 2010
The Obama administration defended its response to the oil spill on Sunday and insisted it had not been overly reliant on BP in assessing the disaster. However, even as the administration sought to reassure the public that it was doing...

BP says it will pay for Gulf spill's cleanup - Yahoo! News

Posted on May 03, 2010
VENICE, La. ? BP PLC said Monday that it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing crude for at least another week. The company posted a...

New federal rule targets harmful mercury emissions

Posted on April 30, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - New federal rules are in the works to limit the amount of mercury and other harmful pollutants released from boilers and solid waste incinerators. A proposal Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency targets mercury emissions from about...

� When It Comes To ?Pollution,? Most Of It Is In the Media?s Mind - Big Journalism

Posted on April 30, 2010
When it comes to environmental topics, the biggest failing of the lazy, old media is not what they tell you, but what they leave unsaid. Yesterday?s release of the American Lung Association?s State of the Air 2010 report provides textbook...

FOXNews.com - State of Virginia to Investigate Global Warming Scientist Mann

Posted on April 30, 2010
A legal battle is heating up faster than the planet for embattled climatologist Michael Mann. First word emerged that the inspector general for the National Science Foundation would look into the Penn State panel reviewing the climate scientist, who is...

Wind turbines making us sick: Protesters - thestar.com

Posted on April 29, 2010
Protesters descended on Queen's Park Wednesday in support of a Progressive Conservative motion calling on an immediate wind turbine moratorium until proper health studies are done.TANYA TALAGA/TORONTO STAR via www.thestar.com

PM delays emissions trading scheme as inconvenient political truth | The Australian

Posted on April 27, 2010
AFTER months of avoiding even mentioning an emissions trading scheme Kevin Rudd has formally dumped Labor's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme until at least after the next election, and possibly the one after that. After months of refusing to defend or...

Senators postpone climate bill unveiling - Yahoo! News

Posted on April 26, 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Monday's unveiling of a compromise Senate climate bill was postponed on Saturday, Democratic Senator John Kerry said, after a dispute arose over unrelated immigration reform legislation. via news.yahoo.com Translation: Efforts to destroy the little that's left of...

U.S. backs plan to stop leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well | Reuters

Posted on April 26, 2010
HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. agencies on Sunday approved a plan to use remote-controlled underwater vehicles to seal a leaking oil well beneath a drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last week. via www.reuters.com

Will a ballot initiative overturn California's climate law? | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times

Posted on April 25, 2010
The battle to delay enforcement of California's sweeping global warming law, the toughest in the nation, is heating up. Oil companies -- along with an obscure Missouri conservative action group -- injected a new infusion of cash into signature gathering...

Windmills Power Controversy on Great Lakes [Mackinac Center]

Posted on April 24, 2010
Lake St. Clair is the latest target for 160 wind turbines, according to State Rep. Timothy Bledsoe, D-Grosse Pointe Farms. Bledsoe has scheduled a community forum on May 3 to discuss the impact the wind turbines will have on the...

Global Warming Panic Attack - The Week (another excuse for government control)

Posted on April 23, 2010
Media personalities and Freakonomicists claim that the planet has recently experienced global cooling. But according to NASA?s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, we have just experienced the hottest twelve-month period in at least a thousand years. If global temperatures continue...

Budget crisis puts LA court system at risk - Yahoo! News

Posted on April 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES ? The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes. via news.yahoo.com While not strictly an...

Scientist says Arctic getting colder - UPI.com

Posted on April 23, 2010
MOSCOW, April 23 (UPI) -- A Russian scientist says the Arctic may be getting colder, not warmer, which would hamper the international race to discover new mineral fields. An Arctic cold snap that began in 1998 could last for years,...

International environmental justice court needed, summit participants say

Posted on April 23, 2010
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AlertNet) - A "people's agreement" reached at an alternative climate change summit this week calls for the creation of an international "climate and environmental justice" court with binding legal power to sanction those who contribute in unwarranted ways...

allAfrica.com: Africa: Volcanic Ash - Airlines Loss Rises to $1.7 Billion - Iata

Posted on April 22, 2010
Lagos ? Director General, International Air Transport Association (IATA), Giovanni Bisignani, said the Icelandic volcano crisis cost airlines more than $1.7 billion in lost revenue for the past six days, just as he disclosed that airlines lost $400 million per...

Too much green? Millions spent on recycling | Washington Examiner

Posted on April 22, 2010
Governments across the Washington region spend millions of dollars on recycling each year, but national recycling experts say a lot of that taxpayer cash is going to waste. Maryland, Virginia and the District require residents and businesses to recycle, and...

Bill would widen Clean Water Act - Washington Times

Posted on April 22, 2010
House Democrats pushed forward Wednesday with an effort to delete the word "navigable" from the Clean Water Act - a change that would give the government greater ability to enforce clean-water rules but that opponents said amounts to a federal...

Killer fungus seen in Pacific Northwest - CNN.com

Posted on April 22, 2010
A rare but life-threatening tropical fungus that causes lung infections in both people and animals has been seen in the Pacific Northwest and could spread, researchers are reporting. The fungus, known as Cryptococcus gattii (or C. gattii), has infected dozens...

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