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Terrorism work to be unaffected by climate review
Washington Post, Walter Pincus
A proposed intelligence assessment on climate change and its impact on national security will not divert analysts or collectors from working on issues related to Iraq, Afghanistan or terrorism, according to a senior intelligence official.
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Brookings opportunity 08: Global warming
ABC News
What is an election about? Is it about personality and leadership? Or is it about the issues that will challenge a president?
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Water conflicts heats up: Montana takes case in Supreme Court
Casper Star Tribune, Lorna Thackeray
*originally posted in Billings Gazette
BILLINGS, Mont. — If Montana and Wyoming were independent nations, troops would be lined up at the border waiting for an order to fire. At stake are the troubled waters of the Tongue and Powder rivers that rise in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming and flow across the state line into reservoirs and irrigated fields in Montana.
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Lead or step aside, EPA
Washington Post, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jodi Rell
Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is governor of California. Jodi Rell, a Republican, is governor of Connecticut.
It’s bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public’s health and welfare.
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Coal Man
Wall Street Journal, Kimberley Strassel
Ms. Strassel is a Washington-based member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Every good party has its wet blanket. In the case of the energy industry’s merrymaking for a global warming program, the guy in the dripping bedspread is a 67-year-old, straight-talking coal-mine owner by the name of Robert E. Murray.
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Carbon-dioxide output outstrips expectations
Wall Street Journal, Guatam Naik
The rate of carbon-dioxide emissions from global industry has accelerated in recent years, outstripping even the highest earlier projections, a new study has found.
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New York’s taxis to be entirely hybrid by 2012
Yahoo! News – AFP
NEW YORK (AFP) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that the city’s signature yellow taxi cabs would all be using hybrid energy within five years, reducing air pollution and helping to combat climate change.
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World growth spurs faster climate change: report
Washington Post – Reuters, Michael Perry
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global warming is occurring faster than predicted because rapid economic growth has resulted in higher than expected greenhouse gas emissions since 2000, said an Australian report on Tuesday.
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May 23rd, 2007 at 8:03 pm
You missed a recent move by the international oil companies to nationalize a $16.2 billion project.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=da61bc62-00f7-4eb5-b72a-270fd3070827&k=44187
The shareholder owned oil companies apparently now want the Canadian federal gov’t to build this pipeline to their stranded natural gas.
Socialism is bad, except when it’s good for the bottom line ?
Alan