Apr. 18, 2008
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Environmentalists threaten civilization
By MICHAEL S. BERLINER
SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL
Earth Day approaches, and with it a grave danger faces mankind. The danger is not from acid rain, global warming, smog or the logging of rain forests, as environmentalists would have us believe. The danger to mankind is from [...]
Bush Unveils
’Realistic’ Climate Strategy in
Rose Garden Speech
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
WASHINGTON — Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a new target for stopping the growth of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
The president also called for putting the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants within 10 to 15 [...]
Bush plans White House speech
Wednesday on climate change
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - In a Rose Garden speech Wednesday, President Bush will outline the way he thinks the United States can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and challenge lawmakers on climate change legislation up for debate in June.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said Tuesday [...]
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Los Angeles considers
global warming tax
April 7, 2008 The Orange County Register
To fight global warming, a bill in Sacramento would enable Los Angeles County transit officials to increase taxes on motorists. It’s a bad idea that may foreshadow even worse to come.
Billed as a “climate change mitigation and adaptation fee,” the measure would cost motorists either [...]
Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.
The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, [...]
House Votes to Spend $50 Billion Over Next Five
Years to Fight AIDS, Other Global Illness
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to triple to more than $10 billion a year U.S. humanitarian spending on fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other stricken areas of the world.
About $41 billion of the $50 billion [...]
The Mystery of
Global Warming’s
Missing Heat
by Richard Harris
Morning Edition, March 19, 2008 · Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a [...]
Floodwaters Rage Through
Central U.S. After Heavy Rains,
Killing at Least 11
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
AP
PIEDMONT, Mo. — Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain pushed rivers and creeks out of their banks in the nation’s midsection. At least 11 deaths had been linked to the weather, and four [...]
Jindal ‘bats a thousand’ at session
BATON ROUGE — The state Legislature on Friday wrapped up its second special session during the 2-month-old administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal by completing a full sweep of the governor’s proposed package of business tax cuts and $1.1 billion in surplus spending priorities.
Jindal and his legislative allies won all the [...]
