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The Failed Climate Bill Gets Its Close-Up
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- Remember the climate bill? It's true that global warming hasn't exactly been all over the headlines recently (though the global anti-climate change party did attract some buzz over the weekend). But if you haven't yet read Ryan Lizza's fascinating and depressing investigation of the Senate's failed effort to pass clean energy legislation in last week's issue of The New Yorker, you should really do so now. Even if you're not particularly concerned about climate change, Lizza's piece is invaluable at showing, in vivid detail, just how corrupt, dysfunctional and partisan our ...
Vilified 'Climategate' Scientist Says He Considered Suicide
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPhil Jones, the British scientist at the center of a worldwide scandal over e-mails appearing to show climate scientists manipulating global warming data, says he considered killing himself "several times" during the crisis, the Times of London reports. "I am just a scientist," Jones said. "I have no training in PR or dealing with crises." As climate change deniers called for him to resign his post, and even making threats on his life, Jones lost weight and went on beta-blockers and sleeping pills. He continues to receive death threats, including two in the past week. "I was shocked," he ...
Obama Pushes Nuclear Energy to Boost Climate Bill
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 31) - President Barack Obama is endorsing nuclear energy like never before, trying to win over Republicans and moderate Democrats on climate and energy legislation. Obama singled out nuclear power in his State of the Union address, and his spending plan for the next budget year is expected to include billions of more dollars in federal guarantees for new nuclear reactors. This emphasis reflects both the political difficulties of passing a climate bill in an election year and a shift from his once cautious embrace of nuclear energy. He's now calling for a new generation of ...
Greenpeace Stages Dramatic Protest at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
By David Sessions - Politics DailyGreenpeace sent four green-and-white squad cars labeled "Climate Crime Unit" to the Washington headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Thursday morning, disrupting a field trip for local schoolchildren and provoking a response by D.C. police. Several demonstrators were arrested, but not before they had scaled the Chamber building on H Street, draping it in yellow "crime scene" tape and barking through bullhorns as if participating in a hostage negotiation. "We're asking the Chamber of Commerce to release our climate policy," said Molly Dorozenski, a Greenpeace official. "This is the ...
Objections from African Nations Bring Climate Talks to Standstill
By David Sessions - Politics DailyNegotiations at the climate summit in Copenhagen broke down Monday when a group of African nations accused wealthier countries of trying to abandon the Kyoto Protocol, The Guardian reports. Members of the Group of 77, a loose coalition of developing countries that includes much of Africa, the Middle East and China, spoke out against what they called an effort to sideline poor countries and walk away from the only binding agreement on carbon emissions. Talks were suspended for two hours Monday, but continued informally and were expected to resume later in the day. Delegates said the episode ...
Sarah Palin Denies Being a Global Warming Denier
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe reaction to Sarah Palin's Washington Post op-ed Wednesday has been swift and harsh among her liberal critics in the press. As Politics Daily's Walter Shapiro notes: "The Post was attacked for publishing the piece, sneered at for not fact-checking Palin's assertions, and ridiculed for failing to identify Palin's presumed ghostwriter. At the Atlantic's Web site, Marc Ambinder wrote a scathingly critical annotation that is almost as long as Palin's original text." In response, Palin has taken to her usual platform -- Facebook -- to defend herself: The response to my op-ed by global warming ...
The National Parks and Climate Change: The Canary in the Coal Mine
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIf you want to see glaciers in Glacier National Park, you had better hurry. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that within 20 years, the park will be empty of glaciers. As temperatures rise and politicians debate how to respond to climate change, the national parks already seem to be feeling the effects. At hearings in April, Jonathan Jarvis, the Obama administration's nominee as director of the National Park Service, called the national parks "the proverbial canary in the coal mine." He noted that the parks are both largely undisturbed and closely monitored, so the effects of the changing ...
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