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• Global Wealth is Cure for Planet

  —Errors of Enchantment

  Jonah Goldberg is one of the most thoughtful columnists in America. This Goldberg column which also appeared in the Albuquerque Journal makes a persuasive case that what environmentalists are pushing under the guise of "climate change" legislation is really wealth re-distribution and expanded government. If environmentalists are really concerned with [...]

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• The Dirt on Climate Change

  —The Westerner

  Though they have always been prized by farmers, the dark soils of the Amazon were largely forgotten by science for a century after their discovery. They are now re-emerging as an important topic of study, not because they're an ethnographic or historical curiosity, but because they show an exceptional ability' [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:49am EST
  

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• Ranking Ag Members Have Questions for Vilsack

  —The Westerner

  The Ranking Members of the House and Senate Ag Committees have questions about remarks made by Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack this week regarding USDA's climate change legislation analysis. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Representative Frank Lucas, R-Okla., say the Secretary's statement implies a lack of confidence in the modeling used [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:47am EST
  

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• Forest plan gets the ax at UN climate talks

  —The Westerner

  A plan to protect the world's biologically rich tropical forests by paying poor nations to protect them was shelved Saturday after world leaders failed to agree on a binding deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Burning trees to clear land for plantations or cattle ranches and logging forests for wood [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:46am EST
  

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• Copenhagen global climate deal falls short of expectations

  —The Westerner

  The outline of a weak global climate agreement was last night concluded in Copenhagen, but it fell far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaves months of tough negotiations to come. Following eight draft texts and all day talks between 115 world leaders, it was [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:58pm EST
  

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• Morning news brief from 770KKOB

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  Obama addresses COP15 conference
  President Barack Obama says the world's will to address climate change ``hangs in the balance.'' Speaking at the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen this morning, Obama said it's time to take a "substantial step forward'' and the U.S. is setting an example of bold action that" [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:27am EST
  by Peter St. Cyr

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• Russian Institute claims UK Scientists manipulated data they submitted, plus video

  —The Westerner

  Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:53am EST
  

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• The Fiction Of Climate Science

  —The Westerner

  Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age." Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:51am EST
  

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• As Forest Deal Nears, New Index Maps Profit Potential in Trees

  —The Westerner

  One of the major developments likely to come out of the Copenhagen climate talks tomorrow is a global agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests (REDD). A new index, launched yesterday in Copenhagen, now provides policymakers and investors with information on which of the world’s regions will [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:47am EST
  

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• Morning news brief from 770KKOB

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  Climate aid pledge
  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pledging that the U.S. will join other rich countries in raising $100 billion in yearly climate financing for poor countries by 2020. At the U.N. talks in Copenhagen, Clinton says the financing is contingent on world leaders reaching a climate [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:28am EST
  by Peter St. Cyr

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• Copenhagen: Our Own Climate E-mails (Un-Hacked Version)

  —SFReeper.com » News

  

  Activists at Copenhagen. (Photo courtesy Joan Brown)

  This ain’t no Climategate: SFR’s been getting its own totally legit e-mails from New Mexicans at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP-15, for short) that began Mon., Dec. 7 and [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 9:34am EST
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• Climate Talks Near Deal to Save Forests

  —The Westerner

  Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natural landscapes like peat soils, swamps and fields that play a crucial role in curbing climate change. Environmental groups have long advocated such a compensation program because forests are efficient [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:33am EST
  

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• Hollywood Conservatives Say Gore Should Lose Oscar Over Climate-Gate

  —The Westerner

  Just days ahead of an international climate change conference, global warming guru and former Vice President Al Gore has been hit by an inconvenient scandal -- one that's reverberated all the way back to Hollywood. Two conservative screenwriters say Gore should be stripped of his Oscar in light of the [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 5:30am EST
  

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• Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up

  —The Westerner

  There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row. Mr Gore, speaking at the [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:18am EST
  

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• Climategate: Who are the 'deniers' now?

  —The Westerner

  A couple of years ago, supporters of global warming theory began referring to skeptics as “deniers” — implying that anyone who doubted climate change should be lumped with Holocaust deniers. Now the shoe is on the other foot, thanks to the eye-popping e-mail dump that hit the Internet recently and [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:17am EST
  

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• Federal study tallies carbon stored in plants, soil

  —The Westerner

  The Oregonian recently reported on efforts to task federal forests with fighting climate change, and now the U.S. Geological Survey has issued a report attempting to tally just how much carbon the nation's plants and soil store. U.S. Interior Secretary made reference to the report in a speech at the [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:15am EST
  

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• Schwarzenegger Says States Key to Climate Fight

  —The Westerner

  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says countries cannot solve the problems of climate change without the help of local governments. In a speech planned Tuesday before the U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, Schwarzenegger will encourage international agreements but say that won't be enough to combat global warming. Schwarzenegger says cities, states, provinces' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:14am EST
  

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• Climategate: Gore falsifies the record

  —The Westerner

  In a recent interview Al Gore says about the leaked emails, "the most recent one is more than 10 years old" and pooh poohs their significance.
  
  Not so says Andrew Bolt:
  
  ...one Climategate email was from just two months ago. The most recent was sent on November [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:39am EST
  

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• Climategate: Which one blew the whistle?

  —The Westerner

  It is almost certain that the leak of 4000 documents from the University of East Anglia was not the work of a hacker but of a whisteblower. The sheer effort of retrieving, itemising and sorting all those documents, and of weeding out any that were purely personal or irrelevant, required [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:37am EST
  

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• Surprise, Surprise, Many Scientists Disagree On Global Warming

  —The Westerner

  As the Climate-gate controversy continues to grow, amid charges of hiding and manipulating data, and suppressing research by academics who challenge global warming, there is one oft-repeated defense: other independent data-sets all reach the same conclusions. "I think everybody is clear on the science. I think scientists are clear on" [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:35am EST
  

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• Vilsack speaks at Copenhagen conference

  —The Westerner

  Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke at "Agriculture and Rural Development Day," a day-long event at the University of Copenhagen with more than 300 policy makers, negotiators, rural development practitioners, producers, civil society and leaders from the agricultural and climate change scientific community. The purpose of the event was to assemble a [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:29am EST
  

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• COP15 in dissarray

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  U.N. climate talks have been thrown into disarray as developing countries blocked negotiations, demanding that rich countries raise their pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  Representatives from developing countries said they refused to participate in any working groups Monday at the 192-nation summit until the issue was resolved.
  
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 5:27am EST
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• Do the stolen e-mails prove that global warming is a hoax?

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  Umm... no.

  Check out what Politifact has to say about that claim by climate change deniers:However, we can say this with certainty: The e-mails do not prove that global warming is a hoax. In fact, there's overwhelming evidence that temperatures?have been rising and are continuing to rise. Just take a [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:12pm EST
  

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• Martin Chavez to Participate in Climate Change Panel in Copenhagen

  —Democracy for New Mexico

  

  Former Albuquerque Mayor Martin J. Chavez will participate in a panel on climate change as part of the larger United Nations climate change summit. Specifically, Chavez's panel will discuss "Leadership and Innovation by US Cities and Local Governments" as it relates to the reduction [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 7:02pm EST
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• Former ABQ Mayor Chavez to participate in Copenhagan climate change panel

  —New Mexico Independent

  Former Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez is headed to Copenhagan to participate in a climate change panel at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Chavez will participate in a panel called “Leadership and Innovation by US Cities and Local Governments.”
  
  Yesterday, Chavez promised to keep people up to date [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:48pm EST
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• The Tip of the Climategate Iceberg

  —The Westerner

  CRU's apparent obstruction of freedom-of-information requests, as revealed by the leaks, is only the tip of the iceberg. In 2004, retired businessman Stephen McIntyre asked the National Science Foundation for information on various climate research that it funds. Affirming "the importance of public access to scientific research supported by U.S." [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:50pm EST
  

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• EPA Must Be Stopped

  —The Westerner

  The Environmental Protection Agency's sneak attack on the U.S. economy and our freedoms, curiously timed for the opening day of the Copenhagen climate charade, won't go unchallenged. Nor should it. The EPA's finding that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant explains why the administration wasn't too concerned over possible failure [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  

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• ThinkProgress has a "climategate" timeline

  —New Mexico FBIHOP

  The Wonk Room over at Think Progress has a great timeline outlining how climate change deniers have "hijack[ed] the debate" over global warming.While the hacked e-mails may reveal that scientists might not have nice things to say about climate change deniers at times, they do nothing to [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:26pm EST
  

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• Blog Round-up: Copenhagen, Fleck on Climate Change

  —New Mexico Independent

  Joan Brown, osf, a Franciscan sister and Director of NM Interfaith Power & Light, is blogging from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which is happening Dec. 7-18. She went to Copenhagen with an international delegation of Franciscans.  She’s written three reflections so far, including a [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:25pm EST
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• Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak

  —The Westerner

  The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. The document [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:46am EST
  

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