AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
Controversial Book On Obama Appears To Have Lifted Key Quote
Walker Recall Effort Struggles To Gain Momentum
climate change emails
Review: UN Climate Panel's Credibility 'Dented'
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (Aug. 30) -- The credibility of the United Nations' chief scientific body on climate change has been "dented" because of errors in its research and "fundamental changes" are needed in its management structure, according to outside investigators who reviewed the body's workings. The influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "has been successful overall, but fundamental changes are necessary for its continued success," said Harold T. Shapiro, a former president of Princeton University who chaired the international committee made up of members of the ...
Study Calls For National System to Track Emissions
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 22) -- The federal government should establish a national accounting system to track greenhouse-gas emissions as part of a broader strategy to improve information on climate change, according to a new report from the National Research Council. The feds should set up an overarching system to monitor greenhouse-gas emissions right down to the ZIP code level, rather than leave the task up to local authorities and entities, the study says. "Government agencies, the private sector and individuals need clear, accessible information about what is happening to the climate and to emissions," ...
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 ...
Pew Center: Leaked Climate E-mails 'Do Not Reveal Scientific Misconduct'
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe Pew Center on Global Climate Change released a statement Wednesday examining the leaked e-mails that provoked an international furor and emboldened global warming skeptics, who see them as proof of a conspiracy to promote the theory of man-made global warming. The Pew Center concluded that the e-mails, in which climate scientists from the University of East Anglia debated data and insulted research they saw as inferior, "do not appear to reveal fraud or other scientific misconduct." "The vast majority of the 1000+ emails are routine and unsuspicious. Perhaps one or two dozen of the email ...
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 ...
Prince Albert of Monaco: Global Warming Is For Real
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 30) -- Prince Albert of Monaco today waded into the controversy over the hacked e-mails that have given fresh ammo to climate change skeptics, saying, "There is no more room for doubt." The prince, who heads a private environmental foundation that works on issues related to climate change, said the tempest over the e-mails was predictable. But it doesn't change what he sees as the fundamental reality. "On every subject of scientific nature there is some controversy. There can be opposing arguments or opposing theories. [And] this will be reviewed," said the head of the ...
WikiLeaks Founder Sees Success in Exposing E-mails
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Nov. 29) -- Earlier this month, it posted internal e-mails that damaged the reputation of leading climate change researchers. Last week, it published more than 500,000 text messages sent from government personnel in the hours after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Such explosive disclosures are just business as usual for WikiLeaks, which since its founding two years ago has beaten legal challenges and criticism to establish itself as one of the leading, if controversial, bulwarks against official secrecy. While some are already calling for a congressional probe to look into how the 9/11 ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- Rudy Giuliani: Mitt's Great. I'm Just Better
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics