The destructive tornado that destroyed the quiet town of Moore, Oklahoma on the afternoon of May 20 was only a few hours gone, the devastation had yet to be measured, and the dead barely counted much less mourned and laid to rest before Politico’s Glenn Thrush felt it was already time to politicize the event and by scolding Oklahoma’s Senators because they are against global warming and big government spending, no less
via wizbangblog.com
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The last time the worldwide carbon level was probably that high was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That was during the Pleistocene Era. "It was much warmer than it is today," Tans said. "There were forests in Greenland. Sea level was higher, between 10 and 20 meters (33 to 66 feet)."
A cold winter may have caused Americans to change their beliefs on global warming, a study published Thursday suggests.
As previous polls have shown, Americans' thoughts on climate change seem to vary with the weather.
via www.usnews.com
The shale gas industry has long thought that the Environmental Protection Agency may undercut its possibilities. But the regulator’s latest unveiling is now fueling the unconventional natural gas, noting that its heat-trapping emissions are much less than originally thought.
This power generation sector is embracing the results given its increasing reliance on natural gas to provide electricity to its customers.
via www.forbes.com
You would think university professors would have some respect for books regardless of their content.
Apparently that's not the case for two San Jose State University professors who actually published a picture at their department's website of the two of them burning a book skeptical of anthropogenic global warming.
via newsbusters.org
Happy May Day!
On International Workers' Day, laborers from around the world unite to demand improved working conditions. Since 2006, May Day has become closely linked with calls for immigration reform. Many of the May 1 rallies will include calls to end the deportation of immigrants and for Congress to pass the Gang of Eight's immigration bill. The Occupy Wall Street movement has a series of events planned in major cities in the US. You can find a scheduled list of events below.
"WWU faculty find overwhelming scientific evidence to support global warming." Of course there is overwhelming evidence of global warming! Everyone agrees! But that doesn't prove it was caused by carbon dioxide! The authors fail to understand:
Of the two periods of global warming this century, the first, and warmest, occurred before rise in carbon dioxide;
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