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July 2008
- Global Warming Didn't Cause New England Tornadoes
  
  newser | Boston Herald | 3 hours, 39 minutes ago
  
  Two tornadoes have ripped through New England in the last few days, killing a New Hampshire woman and doing serious property damage. But don’t blame global warming for the uncharacteristically violent climate: local climatologists tell the Boston Herald equally extreme weather struck the region in the ‘30s and ‘60s, resulting from “blocks” of bad weather patterns that last up to 3 months. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • New Hampshire • weather • tornado • severe weather • New England • Rhode Island • climatologists
- Baltimore Opts Against Plastic Bag Ban
  
  newser | Baltimore Sun | Jul 22, 08 2:49 PM CDT
  
  A law that would have made Baltimore America’s second plastic-bag-free city got a resounding thumbs down from the city council last night, the Baltimore Sun reports. The council ixnayed the bill, 11-3, citing concerns over the cost and environmental impact of paper bags. “I know there has been a lot of pressure on this bill," said the measure’s main sponsor. "I think they're wrong about this." More »
  
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  global warming • environment • Maryland • Baltimore • plastic bags
- 8 Signs the Animal Kingdom Is in Trouble
  
  newser | LiveScience | Jul 21, 08 3:20 PM CDT
  
  Biologists have mounting evidence that human activity is causing real damage to the natural world. LiveScience lists overlooked indications that things are seriously out of whack. Earlier migration: Several bird species are getting their timing wrong. Jellyfish rule: The creatures are hitching rides on ships. More »
  
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  global warming • pollution • migration • penguin • scientist • reptiles • animals • jellyfish
- Hundreds of Penguins Found Dead in Rio
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 19, 08 2:37 PM CDT
  
  More than 400 penguins, most of them only babies, have been found dead on the tropical beaches of Rio de Janeiro over the past 2 months—an unusual and as-yet unexplained phenomenon, the AP reports. While Brazil’s beaches are no stranger to the occasional penguin—dead or otherwise—the sudden flood is stumping experts. More »
  
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  global warming • Brazil • penguin
- EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 17, 08 4:46 PM CDT
  
  Climate change will bring longer, hotter, smoggier summers in the coming decades across the US, a new EPA reports says. Expect more wildfires and hurricanes, too, along with water problems in the West, the Washington Post reports. The federal report is noteworthy because it refutes the Bush administration's rosier outlook on global warming, the Post notes. More »
  
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  Bush administration • climate change • global warming • environment • Environmental Protection Agency • heat wave • scientists
- 'Go Green,' Pope Urges Youth
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | Jul 14, 08 4:35 AM CDT
  
  The Pope yesterday called on the world—particularly young people—to combat global warming with "a style of life that eases problems caused to the environment," reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Pope Benedict issued his plea just minutes before touching down in Australia for an official visit. The Vatican is going green with a new solar power system. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • Australia • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • solar energy • priest sex abuse • World Youth Day
- Corals Face Extinction
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 11, 08 2:16 AM CDT
  
  Hundreds of species that make up the world's coral reefs are faced with extinction, which could result in the destruction of reefs that provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Up to a third of all coral is immediately threatened, reports the Los Angeles Times . Global warming is one of the dangers to the corals, but others include over-fishing and pollution of the world's oceans, reports the Los Angeles Times . More »
  
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  global warming • El Nino • coral reef
- Global Warming Caused by ... Cleaner Skies: Study
  
  newser | New Scientist | Jul 10, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  Reducing aerosols and other pollutants has been a major part of Europe’s campaign to reduce global warming, but a new study turns conventional thinking on its head, New Scientist reports. "The decrease in aerosols probably accounts for at least half of the warming over Europe in the last 30 years," says a co-author of the study. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • Europe • greenhouse gases • air pollution • smog • meteorology • aerosol
- Cheney's Staff Cut Testimony on Climate: EPA Official
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 8, 08 3:28 PM CDT
  
  Aides to Vice President Dick Cheney censored congressional testimony on climate change by a top government official, a former official at the Environmental Protection Agency charges. Jason Burnett claims Cheney’s office, fearing testimony would lead to greater regulation of greenhouse gases, excised six pages of text regarding the health risks of global warming by the director of the Centers for Disease Control last fall, the AP reports. More »
  
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  global warming • Dick Cheney • Environmental Protection Agency • Centers for Disease Control • Barbara Boxer • Stephen Johnson
- Flat-Screen TVs Pose Major Climate Risk
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 3, 08 12:03 PM CDT
  
  Soaring demand for flat-screen TVs could accelerate global warming faster than coal-fired power stations, the Guardian reports. A leading environmental scientist warns that a gas used in their manufacture and not controlled in the Kyoto treaty—as other greenhouse gases are—is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and is being made in escalating amounts. More »
  
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  global warming • greenhouse gases • carbon dioxide • flat screen TVs • Kyoto treaty • greenhouse-gas emissions
- Sticker Shock: Calif. Puts Emissions Rating on '09 Cars
  
  newser | San Jose Mercury News | Jul 2, 08 7:45 PM CDT
  
  A state-mandated sticker showing vehicles' global-warming rating is starting to show up in California showrooms, the San Jose Mercury News reports. "We are forced by the nature of our economy to drive vehicles to work and play. This gives people a tool to lessen their carbon footprint," a state spokesman said of the label showing autos' 1-10 rating on greenhouse gas emissions. More »
  
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  California • global warming • cars
- Global Warming's a Myth; Here's Why People Believe
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 1, 08 9:31 AM CDT
  
  Global warming is a bunch of hooey, a “nonfalsifiable hypothesis logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God”—and any discussion of it is not a matter of science but one of “sick-souled religion,” writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal . Evidence has emerged to undercut the theory—expanding sea in in the Antarctic, for example—yet its believers are resolute, Stephens writes. He offers three reasons why. More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • religion • science
June 2008
- Five Problems With Environmental Reporting
  
  newser | Columbia Journalism Review | Jun 29, 08 5:15 AM CDT
  
  If you’re flummoxed by ever-shifting information on climate change and the environment, just think what the folks who report it must be going through. Deadline pressures and conflicting scientific papers have reporters struggling to provide editors with sellable stories, the Columbia Journalism Review reports, and the results don’t always accurately represent the issue. CJR nails five big issues with environmental journalism: More »
  
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  global warming • environment • journalism • reporter • media criticism • Columbia University • Wired
- New Engine Could Rev Green Flight
  
  newser | Wired | Jun 26, 08 10:20 AM CDT
  
  In what is being hailed as the most exciting development in commercial aviation technology in years, Pratt & Whitney has developed a revolutionary jet engine that burns up to 15% less fuel and cuts carbon emissions by 1,500 tons per plane per year. The engine, which is also quieter and cheaper to maintain, could revolutionize the industry, reported Wired . More »
  
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  global warming • Boeing • Airbus • FAA • Dreamliner • alternative fuels • Mitsubishi • carbon dioxide emissions • NextGen • Bombardier
- Warming Will Kill 66% of Calif. Plants Within Century
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jun 25, 08 1:49 PM CDT
  
  If California’s climate warms significantly in the next 100 years the consequences could be grave for the majority of the state’s native plants, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A team of scientists from UC Berkeley and Duke found that up to 66% of the state’s plants wouldn’t have time to migrate to a higher, cooler elevation if carbon emissions continue at their current rate. More »
  
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  California • global warming • environment • carbon emissions • trees • plants • temperatures • plant
- US Weather Hell: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 20, 08 4:18 AM CDT
  
  The US will suffer a wide range of increasingly extreme weather events in the coming decades as a result of global warming—from drought and excessive heat to wildly destructive hurricanes and record floods triggered by intense rains, reports the Washington Post. The grim prognosis was revealed in the latest report by the US Climate Change Science Program, which called extreme weather "among the most serious challenges in coping with a changing climate." More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • drought • tropical storms • greenhouse-gas emissions • rainstorms • hurricanes • National Center for Atmospheric Research • National Climatic Data Center
- Half of Amazon Could Be Gone in 20 Years
  
  newser | Yale Environment 360 | Jun 19, 08 6:58 PM CDT
  
  An "unprecedented" combination of ills is threatening the Amazon, and if nothing is done to ease the pressure on the world’s largest rainforest, more than half of it could be gone or withered in 20 years, Rhett Butler writes for Yale Environment 360 . After a three-year decline, forest clearing doubled in the latter part of 2007 to help feed the insatiable demand of the growing economies in China, India, Russia, and elsewhere. More »
  
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  global warming • Brazil • greenhouse gases • agriculture • deforestation • Amazon rainforest • logging • cattle industry
- EU Will Ban Incandescent Bulbs
  
  newser | Der Spiegel | Jun 19, 08 2:07 PM CDT
  
  The European Union is set to begin phasing out the incandescent light bulb in favor of compact fluorescent bulb, Der Spiegel reports. The highest-wattage bulbs will go next year; the transition to CFLs—using a fifth of the energy and lasting 10 times longer—should be complete in 2015. More »
  
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  global warming • European Union • electricity • compact fluorescent bulbs • energy consumption • incandescent bulbs • bulbs
- Where's All the Climate-Change Finger-Pointing?
  
  newser | Treehugger | Jun 17, 08 4:48 PM CDT
  
  With the recent rash of severe and terrifying weather events, Treehugger notes a distinct lack of environmentalists pointing to the changes as evidence of global warming. The green site gives five reasons for the absence, starting with the fact that it's no fun to say "I told you so." The list in its entirety: More »
  
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  climate change • global warming • flooding • severe weather • global weather
- Alaskan Salmon Sick of Climate Change
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 14, 08 7:24 PM CDT
  
  Alaskan king salmon are getting sick, and experts have named a culprit: global warming. Marine ecologists say that a rise in "white spot disease" is tied to a 3-decade trend of higher temperatures in the Yukon River, the Los Angeles Times reports. With cold-temperature barriers melting, parasites and bacteria are moving north—and threatening Alaska's prized salmon stock. More »
  
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  global warming • disease • Alaska • fish • fishing • salmon • parasite

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