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Break Stuff to Save the Planet: Gore

Former VP endorses civil disobedience against climate change

Nov 6, 09 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Al Gore says nonviolent disruption of polluters and airports is justified considering the grave threat posed by climate change. "Civil disobedience has an honorable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a... More »

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climate change • Al Gore • global warming • Copenhagen • civil disobedience • US Senate • Copenhagen climate change conference

Dana Milbank

GOP Boycotts Climate Bill, Dems Get Bored

Climate hearing boycott ends with whimper

Nov 4, 09 11:08 AM CST
(Newser) - For a while yesterday, Democrats got to live the dream: a world without Republicans. The GOP made good on its promise to boycott the Senate environment committee’s hearing on its climate change bill, and Democrats had a good time lambasting them in absentia, calling them the party of “... More »

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climate change • global warming • Senate • boycott • George Voinovich • Barbara Boxer • Dana Milbank • Republicans • Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION?

 UK Man Worships at 
 Church of Climate Change 

And claims his belief deserves protection just like Islam or Judaism

Nov 4, 09 8:01 AM CST
(Newser) - You can't force a Muslim to eat pork, or a Jew to pray to Jesus, and a UK man is claiming in court that his religious belief deserves similar protection. Climate change, that is. Tim Nicholson of Oxford is suing for religious discrimination after an employer, annoyed with his attempts... More »

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climate change • religion • frivolous lawsuits • religious persecution • Tim Nicholson

 Merkel Addresses Congress, 
 Wants Climate Pact 

German chancellor speaks to joint session

Nov 3, 09 2:39 PM CST
(AP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress to "tear down the walls of today" and reach a deal to combat global warming. Merkel, frequently interrupted by robust applause, also reiterated her country's... More »

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climate change • Congress • Angela Merkel • Germany • global warming • Chancellor of Germany • joint session

 Critics Lash 
 Gore's Green 
 'Profiteering' 

Investment profits go back into his nonprofit, counters ex-VP

Nov 3, 09 5:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Al Gore is going to become the world's first "carbon billionaire" thanks to investments in firms that will profit from policies he advocates, his critics say. The ex-VP is a partner in a venture capital firm that stands to make huge profits from investments in green technology, causing accusations... More »

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climate change • environment • Al Gore • venture capital • green technology • Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

 Dems Use Nukes to 
 Lure GOP to Climate Bill 

Plants, drilling offered as sweetener for cap-and-trade

Nov 2, 09 9:28 AM CST
(Newser) - The climate change bill up for Senate committee debate tomorrow doesn't stand a chance unless its Democratic backers can sweet talk some of their GOP colleagues, the Washington Post reports. The legislation focuses on a cap-and-trade system where companies could buy and sell emissions permits as needed. But Republican support... More »

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climate change • environment • Democrats • nuclear power • cap and trade • Senate • Lindsey Graham • emissions standards • Lisa Murkowski • Republicans

 NASA Mission 
 Monitors Polar Ice 

Antarctica jet filling in for dying satellite

Oct 30, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - NASA has begun a mission much closer to home than usual. The agency is flying a DC-8 over Antarctica to track melting glaciers and any subsequent rise in sea levels. Operation Ice Bridge is designed to buttress the work of a fading satellite, ICESat, which is just about spent after... More »

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climate change • NASA • global warming • sea level • Antarctica • satellite • glacier • polar ice caps

Bret Stephens

Freakonomics Guys Freak Out Climate Acolytes

The Church of Gore doesn't want to hear simple solutions

Oct 27, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wouldn't it be great to make global warming disappear with a helium balloon, a few miles of garden hose, and a stream of sulfur dioxide? “Maybe, but not if you’re Al Gore or one of his little helpers,” writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal.... More »

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Iraq • climate change • global warming • Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics

 Obama to MIT: 
 Win the Green Race 

President pushes climate change legislation

Oct 23, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama urged MIT to get cracking on green energy research today, saying America’s future depends on it. “The nation that wins this competition will be the nation that leads the global economy,” he said. “I want America to be that nation. It’s that simple.... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • energy • MIT

 Biofuel Laws Make No Sense: Scientists 

Kyoto Protocols actually encourage harming the environment

Oct 23, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Biofuel laws around the world actually encourage harming the environment, prominent scientists argue in the latest issue of Science. Under the Kyoto Treaty, in laws throughout Europe, and in the bill that passed the US House, biofuels count as carbon-neutral, on the theory that the plants the fuel is... More »

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climate change • environment • trees • biofuel • Kyoto Protocol • deforestation • carbon emissions

ANALYSIS

 Fewer Americans 
 Believe in Global Warming 

Those seeing evidence of it dropped from 71%-57% in 18 months

Oct 22, 09 8:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The percentage of Americans who think there’s serious evidence of global warming has dropped precipitously in the past 18 months—from 71% to 57%, the Pew Research Center finds. Numbers were down across the political spectrum—Democrat, independent, Republican—but the drop was most pronounced among independents, to 53%... More »

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climate change • global warming • cap and trade • science • Pew Center • opinion polls

Jeffrey Sachs

 Coal Harms the Planet 
 —and Owns the Senate 

Blame industry as well as ideology if US shirks Copenhagen

Oct 21, 09 8:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the world turns to Copenhagen this December, the US, which never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, may once again fail to sign up to save the world from serious climate change. Ideology plays a part, Jeffrey Sachs notes, as many Republican senators are "intent on derailing any Obama initiative.... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • environment • coal • Kyoto Protocol • coal mining • treaty • Copenhagen climate change conference • Jeffrey Sachs

West Eases Off Carbon Demands for China, India

Copenhagen deal closer, but 2050 goal less likely

Oct 20, 09 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Industrialized nations backed away from long-term carbon cut demands on developing nations yesterday, in the hopes of reaching a deal at December's Copenhagen summit. The US and EU have pushed for a 50% reduction in global carbon emissions by 2050, but China and India refused to sign up, wary of... More »

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China • climate change • India • global warming • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • developing countries • carbon emissions • Copenhagen climate change conference

Obama Tries to Hobble Chamber of Commerce

Conservative business group now 'radioactive' in Washington

Oct 19, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is deliberately freezing out a US Chamber of Commerce seemingly chilly to its entire agenda. White House officials have pointedly ignored the Chamber, speaking instead directly with the CEOs of its member companies. “We prefer the approach where the actual people who are on the front... More »

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climate change • Barack Obama • cap and trade • lobbyists • Obama administration • US Chamber of Commerce

COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

 5 Years Until Climate 
 Disaster, Warns WWF 

Checking global warming requires 'green revolution'

Oct 19, 09 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disastrous climate change is inevitable unless the world begins cutting carbon emissions within the next five years, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a new report. Ahead of December's clutch Copenhagen summit, meant to forge a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the fund repeats that global temperature rises could stay... More »

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climate change • environment • global warming • Gordon Brown • World Wildlife Fund • WWF • carbon emissions • Copenhagen climate change conference

Brit Cops Sic
Dogs on Eco-Protesters

Officials call it a 'different style of policing'

Oct 19, 09 2:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Climate change activists were chewed up by police dogs as British cops sicced German shepherds on protesters scaling fences at a power station. ''Of course this is regrettable, but it's a combination of reckless behavior by some protesters and us having to respond with a different style of policing,"... More »

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climate change • environment • police • Britain • political demonstrations • protesters • eco-protesters • power station • police dogs

 Maldives Leaders Meet 
 Underwater on Climate 

Stop climate change or we're sunk, they say

Oct 17, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(AP) - Members of the Maldives' Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals today at an underwater meeting staged to highlight the threat of global warming to the lowest-lying nation on earth. President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials submerged and took their seats at a table on the sea... More »

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climate change • global warming • sea level • polar ice caps • Maldives

 Brothel Goes 'Green' 
 With Bike Discount 

Public transit passengers get a price break, too

Oct 16, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Berlin brothel that offers a discount to patrons who arrive by bicycle or public transportation is touting itself as the first “green” sex stop. Clients simply present their helmet, bike lock, or bus ticket at the Maison d’Envie, which just happens to be in a district where... More »

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climate change • prostitution • environmentalism • Berlin • public transportation • bicycles • brothel

eliot spitzer

How to Kill the Chamber of Commerce...

...before its lobbyists
do more damage on climate change, etc.

Oct 15, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chamber of Commerce's outrageous stand against action on global warming, which has spurred a number of huge corporations to drop out, is not an anomaly, says Eliot Spitzer. From environmental protection to deregulation to fiscal policy to health care reform, it’s always on the wrong side of history,... More »

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climate change • Eliot Spitzer • mutual funds • 401k • pension funds • US Chamber of Commerce

Terror Act Used to Block
Climate Activist's Trip

Protester stopped en route to Copenhagen

Oct 15, 09 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A British climate change activist says police abused anti-terror laws to prevent him from traveling to this week's climate change conference in Copenhagen. Police yanked him and another activist off a bus they stopped on the way to the Channel Tunnel. The activist, who has taken part in several acts... More »

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climate change • terrorism • political activism • protesters • Copenhagen climate change conference

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