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WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 3–A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action on the issue. According to [...]

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Scientists monitor only a few of India’s vital glaciers, which are receding by as much as 100 feet each year.
By Janaki Kremmer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW DELHI – Billions of people in China and the Indian subcontinent rely on South Asia’s Himalayan glaciers - the world’s largest store of fresh water outside [...]

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By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - A resurgent El Nino and persistently high levels of greenhouse gases are likely to make 2007 the world’s hottest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said Thursday.
Britain’s Meteorological Office said there was a 60 percent probability that 2007 would break the record set by 1998, which [...]

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This is an excellent don’t hold any punches investigative report by CBC’s The Fifth Estate. It talks about how Big Oil and the Republicans have systematically created a denial machine and instilled doubts in the public’s mind.
Well worth watching until the end.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=522784499045867811&q=Fifth+Estate&hl=en-CA 

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By ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: January 1, 2007, The New York Times
Amid the shouting lately about whether global warming is a human-caused catastrophe or a hoax, some usually staid climate scientists in the usually invisible middle are speaking up.
The discourse over the issue has been feverish since Hurricane Katrina. Seizing the moment, many environmental campaigners, former [...]

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RICHARD BLACKWELL
Globe and Mail, January 2nd, 2007.

Canada’s wind power business could face a tough year in 2007, with increasing doubts about this green energy source promising to buffet the industry.
While a record amount of wind power is likely to come on-stream next year, with close to a dozen projects across the country set to be [...]

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