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The intensity of Typhoon Haiyan, which sustained winds of up to 195 mph, is raising questions about the relationship between our warming planet and seemingly strengthening storms. Scientists hesitate to pin a single event to global warming, but the connection was the subject of UN climate talks in Poland. Gwen ...
levels? Will basic essential patterns of ocean circulation currents be changed? Will the Amazon rain forest dry out or die back? Will there be large-scale releases of currently contained CO2 and methane (an even more potent greenhouse gas) under melting permafrost, thereby accelerating the process of global warming itself ...
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist William Collins comments on global warming.
... can do something about it. SPENCER MICHELS: Doing something about global warming raises a host of other issues, including new regulations and the costs of reducing greenhouse gases, issues that inflame an already contentious debate. JUDY WOODRUFF: Online, Spencer talks to climate skeptic Anthony Watts about politics and global warming.
... lack of a better word, political tools on the issue. SPENCER MICHELS: One final question, do you consider yourself a skeptic when it comes to global warming? ANTHONY WATTS: I would call myself a pragmatic skeptic. Yes, we need to make some changes on our energy technology but more efficient ...
Spencer Michels talks to climate skeptic Anthony Watts who runs the popular blog "Watts Up With That?" about why he doesn't believe the data used to analyze climate change.
Ahead in Polls, Santorum Says Global Warming Is Politics, Not Science
... a couple weeks ago that found overwhelming majority of Americans, including a small plurality of Republicans, all support action to reduce carbon pollution that causes global warming. So, it's not a question of the public. It's a question of, you have a political party, the Republicans, is the ...
... old common-law doctrine. Justice Ginsburg wrote for a unanimous court here. She said that the question was who decides this kind of issue, this global kind -- global warming kind of issue? Is it the executive branch agency to which Congress has delegated authority in this area, or is it ...
Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry: "American Linden," "The Pajamaist" and "Come On All You Ghosts" (Copper Canyon, Fall 2010). He is editor for Wave Books and teaches in the low residency MFA program at UC Riverside-Palm Desert.
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