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Costs of climate change, state-by-state: Billions... ( Climate change will carry a price t...)

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:14:44 -0000

Climate change will carry a price tag of billions of dollars for a number of U.S. states, says a new series of reports from the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER). The researchers conclude that the costs have already begun to accrue and are likely to endure.

Combining existing data with new analysis, the eight studies project the long term economic impact of climate change on Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey and Ohio. Studies on additional states are in the works.

Tags: energy energy.news climatechange health

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Government Accountability Project: EPA Quietly Releases Climate Change Health Effects Report

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:57:15 -0000

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a major study by the US Climate Change Science Program synthesizing current scientific knowledge of climate change-induced threats to human health. This information should be critical to the EPA’s previous “endangerment finding” for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. However, the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, the branch assigned rulemaking responsibility, evidently did not rely on and did not cite the CCSP report.

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Governors can't agree on climate change fix - Salt Lake Tribune

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:06:41 -0000

Governors from across the country agree that it will take bold leadership to confront the nation's energy crisis.
But they couldn't come to a consensus position on climate change or nuclear expansion or the future of coal.

Tags: energy energy.news climatechange us policy

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Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence? - NewTalk

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:52:39 -0000

Calling climate change one of the greatest challenges ever faced by the human race, some former opponents of nuclear power have recently become its advocates, if cautious advocates. Our purpose here is not to debate climate change, but rather "Is nuclear power essential to addressing climate change and energy independence?"

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The Raw Story | Climate change puts US way of life at risk: EPA

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:20:26 -0000

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under fire for apparently discounting the impact of climate change, on Thursday said global warming poses real risk to human health and the American way of life.

Tags: energy energy.news epa us climatechange

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“Beyond the Phony ‘Debate’: Government Science and the Climate Crisis” (posting from Climate Science Watch)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:08 -0000

We have been, for quite some time, up against a corporate-funded, what I have called global warming denial machine, or disinformation campaign, whose fundamental aim has been to create an exaggerated sense of scientific uncertainty about human-driven global warming and its consequences.

Tags: energy energy.news climatechange

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The US Goes Nucular: Prefab Reactors and Longer Life-Spans - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:12:10 -0000

No nuclear reactors have been built in the United States since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island. But that is about to change. A number have recently been approved and dozens more are waiting in the wings.

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Act now or face disaster, Garnaut report warns | theage.com.au

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:24:06 -0000

PETROL should be included in Australia's carbon emissions trading scheme, but low-income households should be compensated for higher power and fuel bills, the nation's top climate change expert has warned.

Issuing a stern challenge to the Rudd Government to include petrol in the scheme, when it begins in 2010, Ross Garnaut warned of dire consequences for Australia's natural icons unless urgent and decisive action is taken.

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ENN: LCD Chemical Found to Have 17,000 Times the Climate Impact of CO2.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:20:17 -0000

Dubbed the "missing greenhouse gas," nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) was found by a recent study to have a global climate impact 17,000 times greater than carbon dioxide. The chemical is found in the LCD panels of cell phones, televisions, and computer monitors, as well as in semiconductors and synthetic diamonds. The chemical is not one of the greenhouse gases monitored by the Kyoto Protocol, due to the fact that LCDs were not produced in significant quantities when it was drafted.

Tags: energy ecology energy.news climatechange zounds!

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EPA Seeks Comment on Emissions Rules, Then Discredits Effort - washingtonpost.com

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:19:18 -0000

The Bush administration yesterday unveiled but immediately disparaged a proposal to seek public comment on whether the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, declaring at the outset that the proposed approach would be unworkable.

Tags: energy energy.news climatechange epa ecology

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President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter' - Telegraph

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:17:43 -0000

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

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Bush sidesteps court ruling on warming - Climate Change- msnbc.com

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:14:36 -0000

The Bush administration on Friday rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would cause too many job losses.

In a 588-page federal notice, the Environmental Protection Agency made no finding on whether global warming poses a threat to people's health, reversing an earlier conclusion at the insistence of the White House and officially kicking any decision on a solution to the next president and Congress.

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World must aim for 90pc emissions cut: climate lawyer - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:11:27 -0000

An Australian climate lawyer says the G8 nations' commitment to a 50 per cent cut in global greenhouse gas emissions would require a much bigger reduction target for industrialised nations.

Countries agreed at the G8 summit to a "vision" of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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We cannot afford not to invest in renewables | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:08:52 -0000

The UK government's renewables consultation called for a green revolution in energy. In doing so, it created a perfect tabloid rod for its own back. The proposed cost-to-consumer calculated by the Department of Business were based on the vanishingly unlikely prospect of an oil price as low as $70 a barrel in 2020. Expected additions to UK energy bills, at that oil price, would be 10-13% for electricity and 18-37% for gas, the government said.

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The Associated Press: Cheney reportedly wanted cuts in climate testimony

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:32:06 -0000

Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.

When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October, the White House insisted the changes were made because of reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science.

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White House in climate change "cover up"-Sen Boxer | Reuters

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:28:26 -0000

A leading U.S. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of a "cover-up" aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from tackling greenhouse emissions.

"This cover-up is being directed from the White House and the office of the vice president," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

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Tomgram: Mike Davis, Welcome to the Next Epoch

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:08:53 -0000

For those who didn't happen to notice, perhaps because it wasn't exactly front-page news in most of the country, NASA's James Hansen, the man who first alerted Congress to the dangers of global warming 20 years ago, returned to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this week. This time around, he was essentially offering a final warning on the subject.

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Global Warming Examiner - Three Mile Island Proves Nuclear Power is Safe - Examiner.com

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:59:10 -0000

Nuclear power has a major advantage over fossil fuel power sources when it comes to global warming. Generating power from nuclear fuel does not produce any carbon dioxide. Shouldn’t we be retiring our coal-fired power plants and replacing them with nuclear plants?

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Administration Blocking EPA from Addressing Global Warming Pollution

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:53:58 -0000

The White House is currently blocking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from complying with a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that directed the agency to develop global warming pollution regulations under the Clean Air Act.

Below is a statement by Brendan Bell, a Washington representative with the Union of Concerned Scientists:

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Judge: Reduce CO2 Or Don't Build Coal Plant - thedailygreen.com

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:17:13 -0000

In a ruling believed to be unprecedented, a Georgia judge halted the construction of Dynegy's Longleaf coal-fired power plant because it had not made provisions for reducing its emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most widely implicated in man-made global warming.

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