Tag: global warming
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A refreshing dose of honesty (Global Warming Legislation)
Economist: A refreshing dose of honesty Maria Cantwell and the politics of global warming. … Enter Maria Cantwell, the junior senator from Washington state. She is pushing a simpler, more voter-friendly version of cap-and-trade, called “cap-and-dividend”. Under her bill, the government would impose a ceiling on carbon emissions each year. Producers and importers of fossil…
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Microfinance: An Economic Development Failure?
Social Edge: Microfinance: An Economic Development Failure? Microfinance doesn’t clear land mines, save rain forests or stop global warming. … Today, many armchair economic development experts, trained economists and sideline pundits have started to wonder why microfinance is not the next Industrial Revolution. Since I usually agree with myself, I quote here from my speech to…
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Gas could be the cavalry in global warming fight
Kansas City Star: Gas could be the cavalry in global warming fight An unlikely source of energy has emerged to meet international demands that the United States do more to fight global warming: It's cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under our feet. It's natural gas, the same fossil fuel…
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Presbyterians back carbon emission agreement
Presbyterian News Service: Presbyterians back carbon emission agreement Research shows skepticism about other environmental measures. LOUISVILLE — A strong majority of Presbyterians supports U.S. participation in international agreements to lower carbon emissions, such as the one negotiators are trying to develop this week in Copenhagen, Denmark. They agree with proponents of the Copenhagen process that…
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“Big Science” and Climate Change
In honor of the meetings on climate change in Denmark and the recent "Climategate" revelations, I thought I would reprise the first post I wrote about climate change back in September 2005. We frequently hear people decry big insurance, big oil, big business, or big labor, etc. How about big science? Publicly Funded Science, Global…
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Global Warming With the Lid Off
Wall Street Journal: Global Warming With the Lid Off The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about climate science. … However, we do now have hundreds of emails that give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to…
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What happened to global warming?
BBC: What happened to global warming? This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And…