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Peter Berkowitz: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen

Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately distorted data to support dire global warming scenarios and sought to block scholars
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Climategate Stunner: NASA Heads Knew NASA Data Was Poor, Then Used Data from CRU

3.12.10 - Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU)....
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UN Reviews Climate Report -- But Will It Appease Skeptics?Evelyn Leopold, 03.11.2010

3.11.10 - It took a while for the United Nations to acknowledge errors by its climate panel and order an independent review. But the study will not tackle past mistakes and probably not change many minds. ...
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CHINA: Cause of global warming not clear...

BEIJING, March 10 (Reuters) - 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. ...
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At White House: 14 senators discuss climate-energy legislation

The White House hosted a meeting Tuesday with 14 key senators, many from coal- and oil-producing states, who oppose curbs on carbon emissions. Obama appears to be making a big push to win Senate passage of revamped climate-energy legislation. ...
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Solar lobbyists demand government protection to prop up industry

3.9.10 - It was like a scene from Atlas Shrugged: Polly Shaw of China-based Suntech told an Arizona House Government Committee hearing that massive solar production subsidies and even bigger consumer subsidies were not enough. If the Legislature passed House Bill 2701 ...
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TERMINATED: California watchdog sees climate policy job losses...

California is likely to see modest job losses in the near term from its aggressive climate change policy due to higher energy costs and other factors, the state's independent Legislative Analyst's Office ...
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Global warming doubts could hamper climate legislation

With more people expressing doubts about global warming, passing climate legislation in Congress will be more difficult. ...
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Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric...

THE CASE for global-warming alarmism is melting faster than those mythical disappearing Himalayan glaciers, but Al Gore isn’t backing down....
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Wanted: an eco prophet

3.8.10 - It's an exceptionally inconvenient truth. Only one American in three believes that human beings are responsible for climate change: a polling result 10% down on where opinion rested the year before. Worse, the number of Americans who believe that climate change is a hoax or a scientific conspiracy...
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If You Liked 'Planet Earth,' You'll Love 'Life'

3.7.10 - The Discovery Channel celebrated its 25th anniversary and the launch of the LIFE series with an incredible party at New York's Lincoln Center Thursday. How incredible? The ...
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The Donald Rumsfeld Guide to Understanding Climate Science

3.7.10 - "As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." ...
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Rise in UK carbon emissions disputed by report

3.7.10 - A major study for the UK government has cast doubt over claims that rising temperatures are causing soil to pump greater amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, further fuelling global warming....
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Solar energy farms may be built with EU’s help

JEDDAH: Efforts are being made to establish solar energy farms in different parts of the Kingdom with the support of the European Union, local press reports said on Friday....
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Clash over 'global warming' ratcheted up another degree

The clash over "global warming" has been ratcheted up another degree this week, with one member of Congress demanding U.S. taxpayer funding for the research be halted and scientists who have been accused of slipshod and deceptive work planning a campaign of retaliation against their critics. ...
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John Rockefeller leads charge against EPA on greenhouse gases

Sen. John Rockefeller of West Viriginia, a major coal-producing state, wants Congress to shape regulations for greenhouse gases. He introduced legislation Thursday that would delay EPA plans. ...
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Climate scientists plot to fight back at skeptics

Undaunted by a rash of scandals over the science underpinning climate change, top climate researchers are plotting to respond with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics. ...
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‘Symbolic’ Wind Turbines Generating More P.R. Than Power

3.5.10 - Tom Steward - Now that most of twelve California wind turbines retrofitted for Minnesota winters are finally operational, several cities have acknowledged to the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota that the $5 million project may be more suited for generating PR—both good and bad—than producing significant quantities of power....
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Traditional Knowledge and the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Guatemala

Guatemala City. The Latin American and Caribbean Indigenous and Local Community Capacity-building Workshop on the CBD including issues relevant to Article 8(j), Traditional Knowledge and Access and Benefit-Sharing: Mesoamerican Region will be held in Guatemala from Thursday, 4 March to Saturday, ...
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University to grant Gore Honorary Doctorate for 'visionary leadership'...

KNOXVILLE — Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will be honored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with only the third honorary degree granted by the campus. The degree was approved by the UT Board of Trustees at their meeting today....
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