Can Stored Carbon Dioxide Leak?

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EMERGING ISSUE: Potential CO2 leaks from carbon capture and storage projects, like this one at the Mountaineer coal-fired power plant in West Virginia, could simply postpone global warming, experts …

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Global warming and the move to ‘anti-science’ - Examiner.com

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As advertised, the defenders of the received wisdom regarding global warming are going on the attack. Those who believe it is the crisis of the millenium and a catastrophe in the making have suffered defeats in the media, the literature and levels of public opinion and, as Stephen Schneider and many others have said, they need to come out swinging to regain their lost ground.

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Left Coast Rebel: More anecdotal evidence that global warming is a …

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By Conservative Generation for Left Coast Rebel It will be another day before the National Enquirer follows up their claims to an Al Gore sexual assault with some alleged evidence.  The article is scheduled to hit news stands tomorrow.  While we wait, I felt it would be a good time to add yet one more nuance to the old “global warming is a religion” analogy. So let’s look at the analogy thus far:  We have a movement whose sole tenant is that all of mankind is a sinner …

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A Game With Heart: Soccer and Global Warming

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Now that the U.S. is out of the World Cup, how can we maintain that fragile unity that we began to feel while watching our team play? Perhaps, global warming is the answer.

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US Government Makes $24 Million Investment in Algae Biofuel Research

From inhabitat.com:

The investment is going to three consortiums and is part of the US government’s goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create new jobs to bolster the economy. The Sustainable Algal Biofuels Consortium in Mesa, Arizona will be studying how to turn algae into acceptable replacements for current petroleum products. The Consortium for Algal Biofuels Commercialization in San Diego, California will be researching how to use algae as a robust biofuel feedstock as well as how to develop genetic tools. The Cellana, LLC Consortium in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii will be looking …

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Glacier melt in NZ shows end of ice age - Sydney Morning Herald

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The ice age was sent into retreat, at least initially, by an orbital shift of the planet which caused more sunlight to fall across the northern hemisphere, where floods of fresh water from the melting ice sheets effectively shut down the Gulf Stream carrying warm equatorial water into the North Atlantic.

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How close are we to catastrophic climate change?

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As you may have noticed, scientists remain convinced that humans are altering the global climate with an excess of greenhouse gas emissions—soot, methane and the ever-present carbon dioxide we pump out from our lungs and coal-burning power plants. The question is: how bad is said climate change going to get? After all, concentrations in the atmosphere are going up by roughly 2 parts-per-million per year—now hovering at roughly 387 ppm, and climbing. But it may be that the Earth’s climate is resilient and can withstand a lot more CO2 …

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Oklahoma Senator On Global Warming: I’ve Been Vindicated - NewsOn6 …

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To Oklahoma's senior U.S. Senator, the insults just validate his efforts to expose what he says are the lies and exaggerations of global warming alarmists. And, as he told our Oklahoma Impact Team, his efforts are finally paying off, because public opinion on the issue is shifting.

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Climate Change Researchers: Not all Expertise is Equal

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The report comes even as public opinion remains split. A recent Gallup survey carried out for Yale University found that 40% of Americans believe scientists remain of two minds about global warming. (At the same time 68% favored the idea of an international treaty binding the United States to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 90% by the year …

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American Physicist Joins Attack on Global Warming Theory - Suite101.com

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The catalyst for the sudden willingness to speak out against the once widely accepted theory of global warming may be an impressive new online publication, ‘A Greenhouse Effect on the Moon?’ by Dr. Martin Hertzberg, Alan Siddons and Hans Schreuder.

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