When it comes to key warriors in America’s battle over the causes of climate change, few rival Pennsylvania State University professor Michael E. Mann . Mann, who directs the Penn State Earth System Science Center, led a 1998 reconstruction of temperature records going back thousands of years and showing that global averages had shot up in recent decades. Read full article > >

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Book review: Michael Mann’s ‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars’

Local authorities across the UK should have a statutory duty to combat climate change, government advisors recommend.

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Councils ‘must lower emissions’

A stark mugshot of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski briefly took center stage in the increasingly ugly debate over climate change Friday as the Heartland Institute , a libertarian think tank funded by major corporations, launched a billboard campaign equating people convinced that global warming is real to the convicted killer. Read full article > >

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Group pulls plug on billboard linking global warming believers to terrorists

In recent years, climate change skeptics have seized on one last argument that cannot be so readily dismissed. Their theory is that clouds will save us.

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Temperature Rising: Clouds’ Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters

The Toronto International Film Festival last year produced an unlikely star: a quiet, slight-of-stature leader of a tiny country few attendees might have been able to locate on a globe, much less care about. Read full article > >

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Mohamed Nasheed talks about ‘The Island President,’ keeping fragile democracy afloat

Slammed opponent on health care and climate change.

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Santorum: Mitt ‘Doesn’t Tell the Truth’

Slammed opponent on health care and climate change.

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Santorum: Mitt ‘Doesn’t Tell the Truth’

As concerns over climate change and resource depletion grow, comparing the environmental impact of various products has become something of a pastime: Paper towels or hot-air hand dryers? Paper or plastic grocery bags? Plane, train or automobile? Read full article > >

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Determining the environmental impact of a product is a complex process

The Canadian firm hoping to build a massive oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. gulf coast announced Monday that it will push ahead with plans to construct the segment running from Cushing, Okla., to Port Arthur, Texas, and will apply for a federal permit for the cross-border section of the pipeline. Read full article > >

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TransCanada to push ahead with part of Keystone pipeline

The attempt by Newt Gingrich to cover his tracks on climate change has been one of the shabbier little episodes of the 2012 presidential campaign. His forthcoming sequel to “A Contract with the Earth” was to feature a chapter by Katharine Hayhoe, a young professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas Tech University. Hayhoe is a scientist, an evangelical Christian and a moderate voice warning of climate disruption. Read full article > >

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Climate and the culture war

Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, say scientists.

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Africa’s rainforests ‘resilient’

Possible cause of climate change.

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Hybrid Sharks Discovered

Convertible or no convertible? That was the critical question. I was booking a rental car for a January trip to California’s Napa Valley, while simultaneously checking the wine country weather online. Something I’d been doing for days. As if I could affect climate change by hitting “refresh.” The forecast called for highs in the measly low 50s with a likelihood of rain. No convertible. Read full article > >

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In California’s Napa Valley, winter is a season that really cuts the mustard

2011 was an unforgettable year with the rise of the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movements challenging the corporate world and a general overall social consciousness. Architects , too, learned that it is our responsibility to design in such a way to enhance and impact some of the world’s urgent concerns: poverty, climate change, unemployment, energy crises and education. With community’s no longer willing to accept the status quo, as we’ve seen in many parts of the world with successful protests, education is a key component for the mass majority. Education has always been a right and architecture has played a vital role in creating school buildings, which have become a teaching tool for urban sprawl in a poverty setting, have responded to climate change, sustainability, energy crises and preservation of culture and heritage. For example, the Children Academy in Haiti, the Boarding School for Girls in India, the Bamboo School in Liberia and The United Nations Relief and Works Agency Zero Carbon Gas Schools in Gaza Palestine, are all exemplary projects that can be set a new standard for architectural education.

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2011: A Year of Change

A month after joining Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi in a televised call to fight climate change in 2008, Newt Gingrich pivoted to a much different message: Increase domestic drilling and block legislation aimed at implementing a “cap-and-trade” system to curb carbon pollution. “We could drill here, drill now and pay less,” Gingrich said in a May 2008 video for his now-defunct nonprofit group, American Solutions for Winning the Future. Read full article > >

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Donations flowed to Gingrich’s nonprofit after he shifted on energy issues in 2008