Global Warming News Watch

From www.mercurynews.com:

Calling the issue the defining difference between himself and Republican Meg Whitman in the governor’s race, Democrat Jerry Brown gave an impassioned defense Thursday of California’s landmark global warming law.

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From www.philly.com:

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council concludes that a third of all the counties in the contiguous United States will face water shortages by 2050 as a result of global warming. Among the 400 highest-risk counties, eight are in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, and seven are in New Jersey.

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Read the complete article: Editorial: Senate wilts on warming - Philadelphia Inquirer

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From timeslahore.com:

BEIJING,  Meteorological experts have blamed global warming for this year’s extreme weather in the country, which continues to be hit by persistent heat waves and floods.

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From www.popsci.com:

The quickest way to slow the melting of Arctic sea ice is through reducing soot emissions, according to a new study of soot’s climate effects. Eliminating soot entirely could undo nearly a century of global warming, the study says.

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Read the complete article: Reducing Soot Might Be Shortcut to Reverse Climate Change, New Study Says

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From rss.sciam.com:

Just six months ago residents of the eastern U.S. were shoveling themselves out of the snowiest winter ever—weather that prompted mockery of global warming among some people. Now, scientists have a new explanation for why such anomalous snowstorms can coexist with global warming: The storms were kicked up by the convergence of two natural, large-scale weather patterns.

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Read the complete article: Weather or Not?: Last Winter’s Record Snow Driven by Short-Term Meteorologic Patterns, Not Long-Term Climate Change

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From www.wired.com:

A massive simulation of soot’s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century’s temperature change.

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Read the complete article: Controlling soot might quickly reverse a century of global warming

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From noisyroom.net:

Global Warming Fever Cooling – Even on the Left · Thu, July 29th, 2010 Morning Update – Rush Limbaugh · Sean Hannity Interviews Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer – 07/28/10 · Glenn Beck – The Game Plan · Statists Distrust Everyone …

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From rss.sciam.com:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday rejected 10 petitions challenging EPA’s 2009 finding that climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and the environment.

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Read the complete article: EPA denies challenges to greenhouse gas rule

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From buffalograss.wordpress.com:

A new report for the National Resources Defense Council claims one-third of all counties in the lower 48 states will face higher risks of water shortages due to global warming. The report finds that 14 states face an extreme or high risk to water sustainability, or are likely to see limitations on w …

Read the complete article: Climate change threatens water shortage

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From www.latimes.com:

Backers of Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California’s 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, filed suit in Sacramento County Superior Court on Tuesday against Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown for what they called “false, misleading and unfair” language that would describe the measure on voters’ ballots.

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Read the complete article: Proposition 23 backers sue over ballot language - Los Angeles Times

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