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US environmentalist McKibben wins Sophie Prize
American environmentalist Bill McKibben has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for being a mobilizing force in the fight against global warming. The award committee commended McKibben for "building a global, social movement, fighting to preserve a sustainable planet." McKibben, born in 1960, has written widely about the impact of global ...
Butterflies tell UT climatologist about climate
The University of Texas' star climatologist was planning a career in medical research until she met the white rats. "The cutest little white rats," she says with a smile, remembering the creatures she encountered on the first day of vertebrate physiology lab in her premed senior year at UT. She ...
The Colorado: Challenged by climate, population
The Colorado River's winter whisper in the Kawuneeche Valley was becoming a quiet spring roar last week as the stream hinted at the beginnings of the snowmelt's pell-mell tumble off the mountains. But not a drop of that snowmelt cascading into the Colorado River will reach the Pacific Ocean. The ...
Brown trustees want 'robust response' on climate
Members of Brown University's governing body have asked the school to develop a "robust response" to climate change but taken no action on a recommendation that it divest from coal companies. The Corporation discussed divestment during its commencement weekend meeting, held Thursday and Friday. Student representatives of the Brown Divest ...
Clarification: Fossil Fuels-Divestment story
In a story May 22, The Associated Press reported 72 percent of Harvard University's student body voted in favor of the school's endowment divesting from fossil fuel companies. The story should have made clear that the vote was held only among undergraduates and that of the ballots cast, 72 percent ...
Oil leasing dispute heads to federal court
A dispute over greenhouse gases from oil and gas drilling will head to federal court in Montana as attorneys for the government and the industry face off against environmentalists who say too little is being done to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change. The legal quarrel was scheduled to ...
Study: Amphibians disappearing at alarming rate
A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good. The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday that populations of frogs, salamanders and toads have been vanishing from places where they live at ...
Gov. Brown keeps pressing climate change crusade
Gov. Jerry Brown warned scientists and policymakers Thursday that they are losing the war on climate change and urged them to become advocates for the planet. "We've got a big challenge. It's daunting," Brown said. "This is not just about science, this is about activism." A team of climate change ...
Business Highlights
___ Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up. The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that ...
More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: Q. Is global warming to blame? A. You can't blame a single weather event on global warming. In any case, scientists just don't know whether there will be more or fewer twisters as global ...
Climate change linked to pattern
Research scientists and others studying the Earth’s climate say global warming could be linked to a signature weather pattern seen around the world that possibly contributed to this year’s drought and the ferocity of Hurricane Sandy.Some evidence indicates climate changes are pulling jet stream air flows into a more north-to-south ...
NOAA report: Global warming a factor in March record highs
March high temperatures that broke century-old records were in part fueled by global warming from human activity, an early analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.In a draft report dated April 3 from NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division, federal scientists examining Upper Midwest and Ohio ...
High court rejects global warming lawsuit against Ohio power company
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court Monday tossed out a global warming lawsuit by five states against Ohio-based American Electric Power and three other private power companies, ruling that the federal government has the authority to regulate emissions of greenhouse gasses. In an 8-0 ruling, the justices rejected pleas by ...
Severe weather of spring ’11 not result of climate change
No link has been determined between the recent severe weather that has swept through many Midwestern and southern states, and global climate change, according to two meteorological experts.At least not yet.Research is ongoing, but National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Dietsch said tornado statistical data taken in 2010 matches that of ...
Jonah Goldberg: Cooling on global warming
“What the heck went wrong?” That, apparently, is the question roiling the environmental community as it realizes that the fight against climate change has fizzled.As Brad Plumer writes in the New Republic, everything was looking great in 2008 for a sweeping effort to make good on candidate Barack Obama’s pledge ...
Cars & Climate Change
As the Obama Administration set out tough new rules for fuel mileage standards Thursday, getting less attention was the release of the first regulations ever placed on greenhouse gas tailpipe emissions, an effort by the feds to slow the effects of climate change. "Establishing a harmonized approach to regulating light-duty ...
David Harsanyi: Problems pop up for global warming’s true believers
All of you deniers and flat-earthers who are exploiting the glacial temperatures and bizarre snowfall to mock global warming fears are missing the point: Weather isn’t the same as climate.Shoddy evidence, bogus fears and a lack of transparency, on the other hand, are worth talking about. Yet the lack of ...
Climate Change End Run
The Obama Administration picked a Snow Day for the federal government in Washington, D.C. to announce the creation of a new climate change office, as well as a new "climate.gov" web site, though none of it seems to be in the federal budget. The announcement came from the Commerce Department, which proposed ...
Liberty Council plans conference on climate change
MIDDLETOWN — With energy and climate policy expected to take center stage nationally this year, the Ohio Liberty Council — whose membership includes area Tea Parties — will host an Ohio Energy and Climate Conference on Feb. 6 at Miami University, Middletown.Guest speakers will include Pat Michaels, senior fellow at ...
Jonah Goldberg: When global warming is used as a political tool
On Monday, Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, formally announced that her agency now considers carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant, subject to government regulation. The “finding” comes two years after the Supreme Court ruled that CO2 falls under the EPA’s jurisdiction.A day later, an unnamed White ...
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