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And we thought the foreclosure crisis was bad!
Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few dec...
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Stephen Harper: the only leader in North America advocating inaction on climate change
After years in which North America was the leading international holdout against action on climate change, the continental tide appears to have turned...
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Oregon Bracing for Climate Refugees
Portland Metro Council President David Bragdon, says that mass migrations caused by climate change the potential wild card in the planning effort to...
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Greens back away from strategic voting - sort of
Canada's Green Party is backing away from strategic voting after party leader Elizabeth May was quoted last week endorsing the concept: We are too cl...
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Obama vs. McCain: Where Do the Candidates Stand on Science Issues?
Prying answers out of the candidates about science-related issues this electoral season has proven almost as challenging as prying interviews out of S...
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Are We Seeing Early Signs of a Planetary Croak?
Half of Europe's amphibian species could be wiped out in the next 40 years. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London say that the combined for...
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It's Not Just Wall Street that Needs a Bail-Out!
The rapid rise in emissions means the world could warm faster than previously predicted, said professor Barry Brook, director of the Research Institut...
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Letterman on Global Warming: "We're Dead Meat" [video]
As always, Letterman puts us straight - this time on global warming: ...
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Global warming deniers aim to hold New Hamsphire back
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch has struck a climate change task force to craft an action plan with the goal of finding ways to reduce greenhouse g...
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DeSmog Number 3 in the Top Ten Global Warming Blogs
The Youth Climate Movement's blog, Its Getting Hot in Here, has released their analysis of the top 10 global warming blogs and we're very proud to se...
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Climate Change Deniers Deluded: UK Met Office
Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. The evidence is clear, the long-term trend in global temperatures is rising,...
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As Humans Squabble, Nature Starts to Vent!
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from benea...
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GM Vice-chair touts "Volt" but still denies climate science
Click on this hilarious video and you will hear comedian Stephen Colbert asking if global warming is being caused by sunspots and GM vice-chair Bob...
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Arctic Ice Growing: Record NOT Set!
The return of fall temperatures have ended the annual Arctic melt, leaving the Arctic sea ice cover just shy of a record low, according to the U.S. Na...
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Guest Commentary: Is Stephen Harper an Economic Conservative?
Guest Commentary... As I constantly awake to politics, it is becoming increasingly clear to me that the so-called Conservative Party of Canada is not ...
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Breaking: Harper to call election for October 14th
MONTREAL (AFP) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set Sunday to seek to dissolve parliament and call snap elections for October 14, ending...
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"Green" funding for Ford: Why Government Shouldn't Pick Winners
The Canadian government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is reported to be on the verge of giving $200 million from a green initiatives fund to For...
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Check out NASA's new science blog
When it comes to climate science, its usually best to talk to climate scientists. And a new blog set up by NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a...
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It's Not Easy Being Green(land)
In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-squa...
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Polluters Beware
I've often wondered if EPA actually stands for Environmental Pillaging Act, so contrary to environmental protection are the policies and recommendatio...
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The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On . . . The Amazon Rainforest?
Spain is experiencing its worst drought in 40 years. Climate experts warn that the country is suffering badly from the impact of climate change and th...
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T. Boone Pickens Sniffs the Wind, Makes a Plan
I Love Capitalists (Smart Capitalists, Anyway)Oil magnate and takeover king T. Boone Pickens has a plan to save America from its unaffordable depend...
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A Burst of "Green" Power Courtesy of the World Bunk!
Once the new Tata Ultra Mega power plant in western India is fired up in 2012 and fully operational, it will become one of the world's 50 largest gree...
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Mike Mann and Lee Kump weigh in with "Dire Predictions"
Summer Reading? No, actually, Required ReadingI don't know how I missed Michael Mann and Lee Kump's new book Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Wa...
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The Guardian Offers "Words of Warming"
Yet More Summer ReadingHere's a book page extravaganza from The Guardian, beginning with a fairly comprehensive survey of recent climate change liter...
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The Computer Models Are All Wet -- But the Skeptics are Wetter!
US and British researchers have confirmed the link between warmer climate and an increase in powerful rainstorms, according to a study that underscore...
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Paris Hilton's Energy Policy [video]
So who knew Paris Hilton was an energy pundit. Outside of her platform on offshore oil, I think she hits the nail on the head. But the whole painting...
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New NASA satellite map pinpoints worldwide sea level rise
According to new data analysis from the Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1 satellites, NASA is reporting that warming water and melting land ice have raised...
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Prehistoric Deep Freeze Occurred in One Year!
It's one of the most dramatic examples of climate change in Earth's history, and scientists now say it happened almost entirely in one year's time. A...
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US oil company profit higher than the GDP of Canada
On news of the massive profits reported by ExxonMobil today, ABC News crunched the numbers and has found that the combined profits of the top 5 US oi...
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US oil company revenue higher than the GDP of Canada
On news of the massive profits reported by ExxonMobil today, ABC News crunched the numbers and has found that the combined revenue of the top 5 US oi...
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Massive Profits, High Gas Prices and $33 billion in Taxpayer Giveaways to Big Oil
Over the next 5 years oil companies will receive $33 billion in taxpayer funded giveaways.According to the report set to be released tomorrow morning ...
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Monckton Goes Postal Over RealScience Riposte
Journalist and failed politician Christopher Walter (the self-celebrating Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) has launched a blustering counter-atta...
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Senator John McCain the Oil and Gas Presidential Pick
The Washington Post has a story out today on the dramatic spike in campaign contributions to John McCain right after the Senator reversed his opposit...
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Is ExxonMobil following you on Twitter?
Seems even ExxonMobil is catching the micro-blogging fever on Twitter. Julie a Community Evengilist at ExxonMobil Corp. writes: Hi there, I'm Janet...
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Where's the best place for wind power?
Generating electricity from the power of the wind is one of the many ways we can begin to wean North America off its reliance on dirty fuels like coal...
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Ofcom Global Warming Swindle Website
A new website has been launched containing all the nitty gritty details of the complaint to Ofcom, the UK's communications regulatory board, over Chan...
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Details of Bush's new climate control plan leaked to the media
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has uncovered the details of a new climate control plan personally developed by US President George W. Bush that is set...
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Expense vs Environment: The Energy Dilemma
TheTyee.ca takes a trenchant look at the failure of British Columbia's (electrical) power brokers to embrace alternative forms of energy because they ...
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DeSmogBlog's Golden Oldies
With more than three years of writing on climate change issues and the climate denial industry, DeSmogBlog has amassed a lot of information - close to...
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Bush to Nature: "Shove It!"
The Bush administration rejected its own experts' conclusion that global warming poses a threat to the public welfare, launching a comment period tha...
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Climate Change Delusion: Woefully Official
This story is legitimately tragic, but it's far from the first case of climate change delusion. Have they never heard of Benny Peiser? Larry Solomon?...
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UK Guardian Video: Canada Oilsands the 'bottom of the barrel'
...the country famed for its wilderness and clean living finds itself caught between fuelling the world's oil-hungry economy and the ecological devast...
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Global warming up close and personal on the edge of the earth
Today we have yet another report about a far off place most people have never heard about being destroyed by the effects of global warming.The massive...
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Bush Ignores Supreme Court Order on Greenhouse Gases
The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressur...
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Bush to Supreme Court: 'Shove it!'
The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressur...
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One American child generates as much CO2 as 106 Haitian kids
Did you know that American children make up 4% of the world's population, but they consume more than 40% of the world's toys? Check out What's Your Ba...
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Canada's oilsands are an environmental problem, not a public relations one
The companies' record on land reclamation speaks for itself. And only baby steps have been taken to date to develop carbon capture and storage technol...
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Carbon Capture and Storage: An Expensive Dead End
Check out Andrew Nikiforuk in Canadian Business, offering a devastating analysis of carbon capture and storage - and a corresponding solution for tr...
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Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax
In a surprising exception (an interesting article in the National Post ), Jonathan Kay makes what he calls a conservative argument for a carbon tax...
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