SPPI eWire 8/21/2007
Al Gore calls for civil disobedience Print E-mail
Written by Nicholas Kristof   
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
I ran into Al Gore at a climate/energy conference this month, and he vibrates with passion about this issue -- recognizing that we should confront mortal threats even when they don't emanate from Al Qaeda.
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DDT for Health Print E-mail
Written by Henry I. Miller   
Thursday, 16 August 2007
The eight-year-old U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus shows no signs of abating. Last year, there were 4,300 serious cases and almost 200 deaths. And though it is still very early in the season, statistics released by the CDC on Tuesday are alarming:
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Carbon's upside Print E-mail
Written by John Linder   
Thursday, 16 August 2007
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell has decided that the debate over global warming calls for a tax increase. Surprise, surprise!
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Global Warming Lawsuits Impacting Climate Change Debate Print E-mail
Written by Noel Sheppard   
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
As climate change legislation hopefully gets bogged down in a do-nothing Congress that continually punts on major issues of the day - keep your fingers crossed! - America's courts are likely to become the real battleground where the war over anthropogenic global warming is waged.
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A Report from the Global Warming Battlefield Print E-mail
Written by Roy Spencer   
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
In case you hadn't noticed, the global warming debate has now escalated from a minor skirmish to an all-out war. Although we who are skeptical of the claim that global warming is mostly manmade have become accustomed to being the ones that take on casualties, last week was particularly brutal for those who say we have only 8 years and 5 months left to turn things around, greenhouse gas emissions-wise.
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Before Gore Print E-mail
Written by John McCaslin, Washinton Times   
Monday, 13 August 2007
D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the Nov. 2, 1922 edition of The Washington Post: "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."
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Global warming? Look at the numbers Print E-mail
Written by Lorne Gunter, National Post   
Sunday, 12 August 2007
In his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claims nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade. That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really hot lately -- abnormally hot -- so we all need to be afraid, very afraid. The trouble is, it's no longer true.
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Global Warming Debate Reignited After NASA Quietly Corrects Temperature Data Print E-mail
Written by Dave Silverberg, Digital Journal   
Sunday, 12 August 2007
A Toronto blogger discovered a problem with how NASA records U.S. temperatures, concluding that 1934 is actually the hottest year on record, not 1998. The climate change controversy is heating up once again.
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Are Gore and Newsweek’s Climate Change ‘Deniers’ Accusations Coordinated? Print E-mail
Written by Noel Sheppard   
Tuesday, 07 August 2007
As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Newsweek's current issue featured a cover story blasting anthropogenic global warming skeptics as "deniers," and pointing fingers at companies like ExxonMobil as participating in a coordinated misinformation campaign akin to the tobacco industry misleading citizens about the dangers of cigarette smoking.
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Early 2007 saw record-breaking extreme weather: U.N. Print E-mail
Written by Laura MacInnis   
Monday, 06 August 2007
GENEVA (Reuters) - The world experienced a series of record-breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.
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EPW Blog: Newsweek Climate Editorial Screed Violates Basic Standards of Journalism Print E-mail
Written by Marc Morano   
Saturday, 04 August 2007
Newsweek Magazine’s cover story of August 13, 2007 entitled, “The Truth About Denial” contains very little that could actually be considered balanced, objective or fair by journalistic standards.
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Calling out Ozone Al Print E-mail
Written by Dimitri Vassilaros, Tribune Review   
Thursday, 02 August 2007
Al Gore isn't saying if he's feeling the heat.
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