December 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
NASA scientists say the most recent meteorological year, which ran from December 2009 through November 2010, was the warmest in 131 years of of record keeping. The world’s average temperature in 2010 was 14.65 degrees Celsius, or 58.57 degrees Fahrenheit. In 2005, the former front-runner...
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September 9, 2010, 12:05 AM
The attorneys general of at least four states are preparing to sue California if the state’s landmark law limiting greenhouse gas emissions survives a challenge at the ballot box this November. The attorneys general of Alabama, Nebraska, Texas and North Dakota have been devising a legal...
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July 21, 2010, 12:05 AM
At heart, America’s global warming scientists are just “curious kids who were always trying to figure out the world around them.” So says the Union of Concerned Scientists environmentalist group, which is sponsoring a national advertising campaign “to showcase the...
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June 16, 2010, 1:18 AM
Valero Energy Corp. has given hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional contributions to a November ballot initiative that would suspend California’s global warming law until unemployment falls significantly. Valero, a Texas-based oil company, has been the largest contributor to the...
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June 1, 2010, 5:23 AM
A bill that would require state-funded academic research to meet “minimum academic standards” may not be able to quell substandard public policy studies from entering policy debate, according to some experts. The bill, AB 2656, which passed though the Assembly last week,...
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May 13, 2010, 6:54 AM
Environmentalists now face a second fight in their efforts to protect California's landmark global warming law. Beyond a November ballot initiative that would delay implementation of the state's climate legislation, Congress has added "troubling provisions" into the long-...
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May 4, 2010, 12:04 AM
We're number one! We're number one! Mother Jones is highlighting the government's efforts to capture and control cow farts, which are part of a two-year study into the environmental load inflicted by the nation's cows. The large number of dairies in California and the...
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March 19, 2010, 12:07 AM
When it comes to California's landmark global warming law, gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is now at odds with the environmentally conscious company she helped run for nearly a decade. EBay has been a prominent business supporter of the carbon-reduction law signed by Gov. Arnold...
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March 8, 2010, 12:08 AM
Two Texas oil companies have been evasive about whether they are backing a California ballot initiative that would suspend the state's landmark global warming law, signed with fanfare by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006. But it wouldn't be surprising if Tesoro Corp. and Valero Energy Corp....
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February 24, 2010, 12:03 AM
Well, sea levels are not really attacking. Instead, oceans are increasingly spreading their watery tendrils into the low-lying areas of cities all over the world. An infographic produced by David McCandless and the Data Blog crew at the Guardian attempts to illustrate "which cities...
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