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Fillibuster Spells Demise For Global Warming Bill

Submitted by Dan Hendrick on Fri, 2008-06-13 07:38.

Senate Democrats pulled a long-stalled measure on global warming from the floor last week after failing to muster enough votes to overcome a Republican-led filibuster.


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Carbon Dioxide Vacuums: Wishful Thinking?

Submitted by Liana Grey on Wed, 2008-05-07 16:25.

Klaus Lackner, a Columbia University physicist, has proposed a new solution to global warming: massive carbon dioxide vacuums. The Los Angeles Times reported last month that "placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century, like a climatic time machine." The only major obstacle is cost.

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In a New Climate Model, Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World

Submitted by Nana-Yaw Acheampong on Thu, 2008-05-01 16:57.

After decades of research to prove that global warming exists and that human impact is the cause for the change in climate, scientists are beginning to find a new way to create a decade long climate report as meteorologists do creating a weekly forecast, reported

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Troy Homes Get A 'Green' Makeover

Submitted by Michelle Subbiondo on Thu, 2008-04-17 15:54.

A restoration project in Troy to bring two historic homes into the 21st century could end up serving as a blueprint for energy-efficient "green" building projects all over the state.


Bush Offers Plan To Tackle Climate Change

Submitted by Michelle Subbiondo on Thu, 2008-04-17 11:57.
With only nine months left in his term, President Bush made his position on climate change clear as he delivered a speech Wednesday challenging the U.S. to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and urging other countries to follow suit.

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Bush Blocks States' Efforts to Cut Vehicle Emissions

Submitted by Michelle Subbiondo on Tue, 2008-03-04 13:20.

As if to further cement its seven-year denial about the impact of climate change, the Bush administration has now denied California permission to develop its own stricter guidelines for vehicle emissions. 


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DiNapoli Joins Top Investors To Fight Global Warming

Submitted by Michelle Subbiondo on Thu, 2008-02-28 15:41.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has joined nearly 50 institutional investors at the United Nations in pledging to invest a total of $10 billion over two years in technology to counter climate change.

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