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• Another part of global warming theory 'topples'

  The fragile and tentative nature of climate science is once again on display, this time via new data of novel high precision , obtained by glacier researchers in New Zealand, utilizing radioactive isotopes in studying behavior of a glacier in that country. The New Zealand Herald reports The first direct confirmation of differences in glacier [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 2:47am EDT
  

• Synonymous with Sneaky

  EcoAmerica, an environmental messaging firm, conducted research to figure out how to manipulate people into giving a hoot about global warming, er, 'deteriorating atmosphere.' Instead of grim warnings about global warming, the firm advises, talk about “our deteriorating atmosphere.” Drop discussions of carbon dioxide and bring up “moving away from the dirty [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 1:53am EDT
  

• In My View: Climate emergency is overstated

  Those are all good questions. You must be a denier. Al Gore should be ashamed that he equated cap-and-trade legislation with civil rights legislation. Civil rights legislation was used to give equal rights to those who had been oppressed and abused and to allow them economic freedom and democracy. Cap and trade [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 1:45am EDT
  

• Greatest Scam in History

  http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/ (http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/comments_about_global_warming/) The victims of Mad[e]off's scam are typical of scam victims. They allowed their greed to override their common sense. They failed to consider the advice of the police that if some opportunity sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Victims of the global warming scam have done nothing to make themselves victims, [...]
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 1:39am EDT
  

• Obama's Big Lies and Small

  POTUS's pandering to a piteous press Watching President Obama’s third prime time press conference in three months, I found myself wondering how the White House press corps had been reduced to a bunch of bit players in the great drama of Barack Hussein Obama. They are absolutely in love and enthralled. He, [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 8:50am EDT
  

• An Overlooked Part of Global Climate Change

  article (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/nsf-fia042309.php).......... In addition to carbon dioxide, methane, aerosol particulates in smoke, and the changing reflectance of a charred landscape each contribute to changes in the atmosphere caused by fire. Consequences of large fires have huge economic, environmental, and health costs, report the authors of the study. [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 4:34am EDT
  

• What You Can('t) Do About Global Warming

  Change out an incandescent bulb with a compact fluorescent and save the Earth? Hardly. We are always hearing about ways that you can “save the planet” from the perils of global warming—from riding your bicycle to work, to supporting the latest national greenhouse gas restriction limitations, and everything in between. In virtually each and [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 4:11am EDT
  

• Quoted as Saying: Reid

  I think health care reform is easier than all this global warming stuff, so health care may jump ahead of that. —U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090501-708125.html) , on the prospects of passing bipartisan health care legislation. He does not foresee any global warming bills before 2010. [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 4:01am EDT
  

• Which MP dares launch this book in Victoria?

  A politician makes a stand: Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell today announced that in the interests of a balanced debate on Climate Change he would launching the Brisbane release of ”Heaven + Earth – Global Warming: The Missing Science (http://www.connorcourt.com/catalog1/PLIMER.pdf)” by controversial author Professor Ian Plimer… “As far as I’m concerned the debate on [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 3:51am EDT
  

• Mayday - May Day!

  NSIDC Arctic Ice Extent (http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png) Just a few pixels from “average”. [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 3:40am EDT
  

• We need to be listening to science

  We are often told we must cut carbon dioxide emissions drastically and without delay. The first urgent call came over 15 years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. But despite innumerable international meetings since then, each one producing promises and agreements, emissions from almost every country in the world have continued to [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:23am EDT
  

• A primer for global warming deniers

  Another day, another denier comes forward to challenge the views of Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The number of scientists who are speaking out for the first time is heartening -- I take it as a sign that the climate of fear is subsiding, and that reason may soon reign [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:11am EDT
  

• Global warming caused the housing bubble

  Environmental activists have blamed every conceivable ill in society on global warming - from the spread of disease to increased risks of forest fires to environmental despoliation and the retreat of glaciers. If you read the enviro literature, you'll be hard-pressed to find any problem worldwide that might not be exacerbated by the Earth's [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 1:55am EDT
  

• Oxygen Thieves: Specter, Gore and Just one more

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  Posted: May 01, 2009, 1:47am EDT
  

• Bureau blows hot and cold over Antarctica warm-up

  Bureau blows hot and cold over Antarctica warm-up as Bureau of Metereology backs down from a claim that temperatures at Australia's three bases in Antarctica have been warming over the past three decades A senior bureau climatologist had accused The Weekend Australian of manufacturing a report that temperatures were cooling in East Antarctica, where Australia's Mawson, [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
  

• Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 1, 2009

  This is what happens when you buy Viagra on the Internet May Day, when Englishmen dance around the maypole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maypole_dance)and young men's thoughts turn to the darling buds. Or something. It's also the international commie day of showing off your missiles, and organized labor's day off. In 2009, May day also welcomes this weeks skeptics' [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 3:16am EDT
  

• ObamaÂ’s ‘Cap and TradeÂ’ Plan Likely Will Raise Energy Prices, Says Senate Energy Chairman

  President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” plan is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that allegedly contribute to global warming. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told CNSNews.com that to attain that reduction, it is “likely true” that energy costs for Americans will go up. “I think the [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 3:08am EDT
  

• Obama's energy, climate plans would drag U.S. back to 1905 – or 1862

  President Obama wants to prevent “runaway global warming,” by slashing U.S. carbon dioxide emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. According to Oak Ridge National Laboratory data, this would return the country to emission levels last seen in 1905! The Wright brothers had just made history. Coal and wood heated homes. Few had telephones [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 3:05am EDT
  

• Watch the Wilkins ice shelf collapse in time lapse animation - looks like 'current' events to me

  Previously on WUWT we discussed the media’s fascination with “melt” (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/media-addicted-to-melt-when-it-it-should-be-crack/) when it comes to ice shelves cracking off. Then there’s also this picture that keeps getting recycled (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/17/the-antarctic-wilkins-ice-shelf-collapse-media-recycles-photos-and-storylines-from-previous-years/). http://www.ogleearth.com/wissm.jpg (http://www.ogleearth.com/wissm.jpg) It is clear from the photo above that we see a stress crack, not a melt. Now we have a time lapse [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 3:02am EDT
  

• Those with the most tell the rest of us to do more with less

  THE thought of being lectured about living more meekly by a taxpayer-subsidised prince who has never done a proper day's work in his life - and who is flying around Europe on a private jet with a master suite and plush bathroom that will spew a whopping 53 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 2:49am EDT
  

• Global Warming's Real Danger

  The global warming debate has taken on a new dimension — taxation. And, by the way, global warming has changed its title to climate change. Just when you think you have heard everything, the far left envirocrats have found a new way to take more money from the public. For all intents and purposes, [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 2:46am EDT
  

• Solar Energy Meets Greenies and Big Labor

  It was a squirrel, a labor group and an environmental group along with California's tough environmental regulations, which helped kill a hybrid solar power plant project for a Mojave Desert city. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The City of Victorville prides itself on being a green city. They recently bought a number [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2009, 2:42am EDT
  

• President Obama warns of ‘cataclysmic hurricanesÂ’ despite evidence to the contrary

  Citing a long disproven theory of 'cataclysmic hurricanes,' President Barack Obama pushed for action to battle manmade climate change and global warming. During a town hall meeting prior to his primetime press conference Wednesday, the president offered a dire global weather forecast to mark his 100th day in office. During the town hall a student [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
  

• Cap-And-Trade: Al Gore's Cash Cow

  Global Warming: At the cap-and-trade hearings, it was revealed that not everyone will suffer from this growth-killing energy tax. A congresswoman wanted to know why sea levels aren't rising but Gore's bank account is. When Gore left office in January 2001, he was said to have a net worth in the neighborhood of $2 million. [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
  

• Add it to the list: GW causes kitty explosion

  They grow up so fast! Editor's note: As much as I love cats, even kittens, blaming global warming for their purrfectly natural propensity for procreating is not surprising in this day and age of making the climate the culprit for any 'unexplained' trend. My own theory of exploding cat populations is [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 8:35am EDT
  

• North Pole Sea Ice twice as thick as expected

  Catlin Expedition (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/28/catlin-crew-out-of-time/) The research aircraft Polar 5 today concluded its Arctic expedition in Canada. During the flight, researchers measured the current ice thickness at the North Pole and in areas that have never before been surveyed. The result: The sea-ice in the surveyed areas is apparently thicker than scientists had suspected. Normally, newly [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:52am EDT
  

• Staring at the Sun Too Long?

  Look, I understand that enviros are generally rich people who feel so badly about their wealth that they want to make sure that others avoid the same fate, but this must be one really big house we're talking about here (http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1104838306 play=1) (about two-and-a-half minutes in). Like, John Edwards-big. And that is by no' [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 5:04am EDT
  

• For Early Hurricane Forecasts, Consult a Telepath

  See how forecasters predictions stack up to reality (click to enlarge) Long-Term Storm Predictors Post a Sorry Track Record but Vow to Improve; One Certainty Is Their Guesses Get a Lot of Press If analysts did no better than predicting stock prices would equal the average of the last five years, one would [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 4:41am EDT
  

• The Real Danger of Global Warming

  I am surprised at how so many people nowadays in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere have come to support policies underpinned by hysteria over global warming, particularly cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and subsidies for green energy sources. I am convinced that this is a misguided strategy - not only because of [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 4:36am EDT
  

• Sins Of Emission

  Congress: Democrats may ram universal, taxpayer-provided health care through this year, but they might not be able to do the same with a climate change bill. Is this another sign the issue is fading? The public has grown skeptical of the global warming threat. Polls show a growing number of Americans think the risks [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 4:15am EDT
  

• Icecap science rattles Craig Emerson

  FEDERAL Small Business Minister Craig Emerson has split from Kevin Rudd and ministerial colleagues by declaring science is undecided on key aspects of the global warming debate. Dr Emerson yesterday became the first minister in the Rudd Government to cast doubt on the assertion that scientific evidence was conclusive for a catastrophic meltdown of the polar icecaps [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 4:11am EDT
  

• Is global warming the defining challenge of our age?

  You may already have guessed my opinion on the issue, but a new paper is out in Energy and Environment, titled Is Global Warming the Defining Challenge of Our Age (http://goklany.org/library/Goklany%202009%20EE%2020-3_1.pdf), by Indur M. Goklany, and I caught the link at Science blog of the year, Watt's Up With That [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 4:05am EDT
  

• UK's Guardian Fabricates America's Climate Change Apology

  In an atmosphere of seemingly endless America-blaming apologies spewing from the Obama administration, a British newspaper apparently figured no one would question the one they invented yesterday. They were wrong – Hey, US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg, where exactly did Hillary issue an apology for “America's role in causing climate change?” Oh sure, the Guardian’s headline [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 6:55am EDT
  

• Salvation on Demand

  In one of the ads of the We Can Solve It campaign of Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, its on-screen text says: Save us from this climate crisis ... Use the wind ... Use the sun ... We demand that we use them ... Click here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydOPBL5iO2Y) to watch the original [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:45am EDT
  

• Cold facts dispel theories on warming

  The IPCC: Misleading the world since 1988 FOR more than a decade public opinion on human-caused global warming has been moulded by pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its army of acolytes. Arguably the zenith of acceptance was the IPCC's fourth assessment in early 2007 followed soon after by the release of the Al [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:31am EDT
  

• Al Gore lies to Congress: Part 2 — Goldman who?

  It’s a good thing Al Gore didn’t have to raise his right hand and take an oath to tell the truth before he testified on April 24 to the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee about the Waxman-Markey climate bill. GreenHellBlog.com first reported on April 24 that Al Gore lied to the Subcommittee about his personal finances [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:28am EDT
  

• This Didn't Take Long: Connection to climate and swine flu being studied

  Weather experts are studying swine flu (http://www.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/swineflu) to see if climate could influence its spread and severity. Determining the impact of cold, heat, dryness and humidity on the H1N1 strain -- which has killed up to 149 people in Mexico and had milder effects elsewhere -- could illuminate the countries and regions most vulnerable [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:23am EDT
  

• Greenpeace Protest Ties Up Traffic; Not So Green

  seven Greenpeace protesters (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042701306.html) made their Stop Global Warming message heard loud and clear to 17 environmental leaders from around the world -- and in the process ruined the Monday morning commute for thousands of Washingtonians and (oops!) actually contributed to global warming. D.C. area rush hours can be rough even when everything goes right -- [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:19am EDT
  

• US admits responsibility for emissions to bring big polluters together

  ObamaNation is now ApologiNation [h/t to climatedepot.com (http://climatedepot.com/)] The Obama administration issued a mea culpa today on America's role in causing climate change, in a move to get the major economies working together on a global warming treaty. The admission by Hillary Clinton at a two-day meeting of the world's biggest polluters (http://www.state.gov/g/oes/climate/mem/) was intended [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:11am EDT
  

• Catlin Crew Out Of Time

  here (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/10/can-the-catlin-arctic-survey-team-cover-683-km-in-the-next-21-days/#more-6947) two weeks ago, April 30 is the last safe date to recover explorers from the Arctic. The people who rescued Pen Hadow (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1136134.ece) from the Arctic in May, 2003 said this (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rescuers-criticise-arctic-explorer-for-risking-lives-539163.html) : “People are at risk - the ice breaks and it shouldn’t really happen. No one should expect [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:05am EDT
  

• No Trends in Hurricane Landfalls in Mexico: 1951-2008

  Yesterday I provided reference to studies showing (http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/no-trends-in-landfalling-tropical-cyclones-5161) that there have been no trends in tropical cyclone landfalls for the U.S., Australia, and East Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Phillipines). I requested any information on Mexico and the Indian Ocean. Graciela Raga from Mexico City promptly sent me an email with reference to a paper [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 5:02am EDT
  

• How long before the swine flu gets blamed on global warming?

  I'm just asking. Almost everything else in this world today that is not good or is going in a bad direction has been blamed on this mythical, largely imaginary process. Remember when you do read it that the temperature of this planet has risen by 0.7 degrees in the past century. When they do' [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 4:50am EDT
  

• Offshore Oil Drilling: An Environmental Bonanza

  On Earth Day, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis wanted to make Obama's energy policy perfectly clear: If we are going to create clean energy industry jobs in this country, they write in a widely syndicated op-ed, break the stranglehold that foreign oil has on our economy [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 4:45am EDT
  

• Ministers split over Antarctic ice shelf claims

  A SPLIT over global warming has emerged in Kevin Rudd's cabinet after it was revealed that a 13-month-old photograph was published this month to support the view that a catastrophic melting of Antarctic ice was imminent. Federal government sources said Climate Change Minister Penny Wong was disappointed with the way her ministerial colleague, Peter Garrett, weighed into [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 4:37am EDT
  

• Global warming alarmists out in cold

  The myths of global warming fingerprints: the polar caps are NOT melting IT'S snowing in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever. And that's just the news of the past week. Truly, it never rains but it pours - and all over our global' [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 4:34am EDT
  

• Al Gore's Inconvenient Enron

  This is a worthy topic for continued congressional exploration. In short, the video and accompanying narrative dissect Al Gore’s Friday Capitol Hill appearance touting a scheme to ration energy while in the process rewarding those businesses who helped concoct the scheme: Al Gore obfuscates, downplays and refuses to discuss the role that CEOs have played in [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 4:16am EDT
  

• NBC Affiliate Meteorologist Rips MSNBC for Apocalyptic Global Warming Special

  A journey that shows the end of scientific integrity Michigan affiliate's chief meteorologist slams disingenuousness of MSNBC's 'Future Earth' special; GE's financial stake in cap-and-trade passage. NBC Universal and its networks have been criticized for the global warming alarmism it parades on a regular basis. However, now the criticism is coming from its own affiliates. Prior to its' [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 8:04am EDT
  

• Complain now to the NYT about Revkin

  NY Times' resident Alarmist in Chief Would others like to complain to the New York Times about this inaccurate article, as I have done (see attached)? Send your letters of complaint to the Public Editor - public@nytimes.com (mailto:public@nytimes.com). Original article link from Andrew Revkin Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/science/earth/24deny.html?_r=1) Please download the PDF file' [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 7:12am EDT
  

• Repeat After Me, Class: 'Global Warming Is Not A Hoax'

  The Green movement has reached a fever pitch, and this was true on Earth Day at Harvard Business School. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is prepared to take serious steps to curb emissions of carbon dioxide. As such, the case for manmade climate change should be evaluated on its merits, especially at HBS. Many people [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 7:04am EDT
  

• Dems delay climate change bill

  The House of Waxman is beginning to melt Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are postponing consideration of their landmark climate change measure, as moderate Democrats on the panel continue to voice their frustration about a proposal to cap carbon emissions. Authors of the legislation were expected to roll out their ambitious proposal [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 7:00am EDT