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Observed climate change in Tennessee E-mail
Written by SPPI   
Saturday, 02 February 2008
There is no observational evidence of unusual long-term climate changes in Tennessee. No emissions reductions by Tennessee will have any detectable regional or global effect whatsoever on climate change.
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Antarctic Ice Loss: Is There Really a Problem? E-mail
Written by SPPI   
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Michael Kaufman, a Post staff writer, describes new research results by Eric Rignot and colleagues that “Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming…raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.”
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Penguins and Climate Change E-mail
Written by Robert Ferguson   
Friday, 14 December 2007
The press out of Bali today includes coverage of a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report about the fate of penguin species under climate change. The press reports draw heavily from the press release put out by the WWF to draw attention to their report on penguins, but more importantly, the WWF’s desire for large and immediate carbon dioxide emissions restrictions.
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Kansas Climate Profile E-mail
Written by Robert Ferguson   
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
On October 18, 2007, The Kansas Department of Health and Environment rejected a request to build two new 700-megawatt coal-fired electricity generating power plants, citing concerns over the contribution of the proposed plants’ carbon dioxide emissions to climate change and “the potential harm to our environment and health.”
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SPPI Fact sheet: West Nile Virus in Kansas E-mail
Written by Robert Ferguson   
Friday, 30 November 2007
West Nile Virus was introduced to the United States through the port of New York City in the summer of 1999. Since its introduction, it has spread rapidly across the country, reaching the West Coast by 2002 and has now been documented in every state as well as most provinces of Canada. This is not a sign that the U.S. and Canada are progressively warming. Rather, it is a sign that the existing environment is naturally primed for the virus.
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