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From The Daily Green:
It was California Senator Barbara Boxer versus EPA head Stephen L. Johnson yesterday on Capitol Hill.
It wasn’t even a close match.
In an extraordinary hearing on Johnson’s much-maligned decision to deny California and 14 other states the right to cut tailpipe emissions, committee head Barbara Boxer was quoted as saying:”You’re going against your [...]

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A new study to be published this week shows that increased wind shear might actually mean that global warming will result in less hurricanes.
This is highly controversial and most climatologists disagree with this finding. I think the trend over the last 20 years has been pretty clear that hurricanes are getting stronger and more frequent, [...]

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Although air temperatures on the Antarctic continent have not been going much at all, puzzling scientists, this new study shows that ice loss is accelerating. The cause is likely to be the warming water of the circumpolar current.
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I have discussed in these pages the environmental disaster of biblical proportion that is caused by oil sand exploitation in northern Alberta.  Now it looks like Premier Stelmach is in total denial. It’s amazing how low people can sink just for money.
Reposted from DeSmogBlog.
Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was in Washington, DC today hyping his province’s [...]

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Last month Scientific American published an interesting article on a grand plan to replace most of America’s energy sources through the use of large scale solar energy.  After reading it, I would say that it is quite realistic and feasible.
The biggest obstacle is the cost: 420 billion dollars over 40 years.  But then again [...]

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The exploitation of the tar sands in Northern Alberta is an economic disaster of epic proportions. Now the Pembina Institute and the World Wildlife Fund have issued a scathing report on the lack of effort from the industry to do better, and from the government to oversee and regulate them.
By BOB WEBER
The Canadian Press
January 10, [...]

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“Changing one’s mind in light of the evidence is not weakness: Changing one’s mind is the essence of intellectual growth.”
Thomas W. Martin
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DeSmogBlog has just handed out their very first SmogMaker Awards
This is the first year for the SmogMaker Awards, honoring those who have subverted honest and forthright public conversation on global warming.
Judged by an expert panel of fraudbusters – the staff at the climate change watchdog DeSmogBlog.com – these awards recognize clever, deceptive or merely devious [...]

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