Global Warming Concerns Continue To Drop
Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:34
Frank Newport, Gallup
Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence. In response to one key...
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China Unsure On Global Warming
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 20:57
Reuters
BEIJING: China's top climate negotiator said on Wednesday that the cause of global warming was still not clear but the problems it was creating were so serious that the world must anyway act to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Xie Zhenhua, vice-chairman of the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, also warned the United States it...
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EU Worries About Russia Turning To Coal
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 16:06
EurActiv
European efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions could be undermined by Russian plans to dramatically increase energy production from coal, Western experts said in Brussels yesterday (9 March). Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently said that for his country to continue exporting gas while satisfying growing domestic demand, it must turn...
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ABC Chairman Criticises Media Coverage Of Climate Change
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 14:31
Brendan Trembath, ABC News
ABC chairman Maurice Newman has attacked the media for being too willing to accept the conventional wisdom on climate change. In a speech to senior ABC staff on Wednesday morning, Mr Newman said climate change was an example of "group think". He says contrary views on climate change have not been tolerated and those who express them have been...
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EU Commission Threatens Member States With Carbon Tax
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 12:48
EurActiv
The EU's new taxation commissioner, Algirdas Šemeta, will revive debate on harmonised minimum CO2 tax rates on fuels at EU level, and plans to table fresh proposals as early as next month, it has emerged.
The commissioner wants to discuss the legislation with his colleagues in the college of commissioners in the second half of April, with a...
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Carbon Traders Depressed About Japan's Climate Bill
Monday, 08 March 2010 23:10
James Murray, BusinessGreen
Carbon traders and green businesses are increasingly concerned that Japan's planned emissions trading scheme could be watered down after the government released a draft climate bill that provided few details of how the proposed initiative would work.
The bill, which was released last week, would enshrine the Japanese government's high-profile...
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Global Warming Has No Impact On Himalayan Glaciers, Indian Experts
Sunday, 07 March 2010 06:58
Ashwani Maindola, Hindustan Times
Senior scientists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WITG) have rejected the Global Warming [scare] and told that the Himalayas are quite safer zones on earth, where Global Warming has no role in controlling the conditions.
In an exclusive chat with HT, Director WIHG Dr AK Dubey said that the conditions of the Himalayas are...
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U.S. States Sue EPA Over Global Warming Ruling
Saturday, 06 March 2010 20:06
Fox News
The bitterly contested fight in Washington over global warming and pollution is also taking hold at the state level. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs at the worst possible time.
Texas, Alabama and...
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Czech President Vaclav Klaus Warns Of Threat To Freedom
Saturday, 06 March 2010 09:18
Czech News Agency
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, now on a working visit to the USA, today warned of the threat to freedom and prosperity by environmentalists who are trying to dominate people and stop economic growth under the excuse of the protection of nature and climate.
"Environmentalism and its most extreme version, global warming alarmism, asks for an...
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