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[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: "Two-thirds of Democrats think that the government can do something about global warming, but only a third of Republicans feel that way," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "The same number of Republicans don't believe that global warming is happening at all.

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Rep. Hoyer says "no consensus" on climate bill: Representative Fred Upton of Michigan, a senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told reporters: "The Democrats know that we have a pretty solid line in the sand" against cap and trade, which he called "a dagger to the Midwest."

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Energy and Global Warming News ...: I despise the right wing roadblocking and denying on climate change and clean energy initiatives just as much as anyone, but in the interests of fair reporting, you can’t blame Reagan and Gingrich for the decline of the U.S. solar industry in the 1990s without also blaming so-called liberal democrat Bill Clinton, who was President from 1992 through 2000. And Clinton had a Democrat majority in congress for his first two years, the same situation Obama is in right now.

[Home] Climate Change Fraud - NASA Warming Scientist James Hansen Hopes ...: According to Pielke, Jr., the collapse “is due to the fact that policy makers and their political advisors (some trained as scientists) can no longer avoid the reality that targets for (emission) stabilization such as 450 ppm (or even less realistic targets) are simply not achievable with the approach to climate change that has been at the focus of policy for over a decade. Policies that are obviously fictional and fantasy are frequently subject to a rapid collapse.”

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] House Dems narrow energy, climate bill differences: As the Democrats met with Obama, House Republicans gathered at the Capitol for an energy summit to criticize the Waxman-Markey bill, which they said would create a national energy tax and hurt middle-class families and small businesses. Similar meetings are being planned this month in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and California before Republicans roll out their own plans to curb fossil fuel use and clean up the environment.

[The Gaea News] US supports reducing climate-warming gases, but won't propose it ...: Former VP Gore endorses House global-warming billWASHINGTON ”” Former Vice President Al Gore, the leading American voice on climate change, urged lawmakers Friday to overcome partisan differences and take action to reduce greenhouse gases, calling the climate issue the most important ever before Congress. Gore told a House hearing that the Democratic bill that would limit carbon dioxide and other pollution linked to a warming of the earth will simultaneously solve the problems of the climate, economy and national security.

[POLITICO.com: Congress] Chamber under fire on warming - Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com: The poll, conducted by the Public Opinion and Policy Center of the National Center for Public Policy Research, found that 65% of Americans reject spending even a penny more for gasoline in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The survey also found that 71% of Americans reject spending more for electricity.

[The Gaea News] US submits first plan for crafting a new UN climate treaty, but no ...: US supports reducing climate-warming gasesUNITED NATIONS ”” The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners "a very significant" threat to climate change Monday, and expressed a preference for drastically reducing HFCs that are promoted under the U.N.'s ozone treaty rather than phasing them out entirely. But a senior State Department official stopped short of endorsing a formal proposal last week by the two small island nations of Micronesia and Mauritius to alter the ozone treaty known as the Montreal Protocol by cutting HFCs by 90 percent by 2030.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Energy and Global Warming News ...: The new technology is the work of a researcher and his colleagues who developed a way to print ultrathin, semitransparent and flexible cells on plastic, cloth and other materials. If the technology succeeds, it may provide the solar industry with alternatives to the fixed installations that are common today: cells may be printed on plastic rolls that could be unfurled for dozens of uses, or stamped onto fabric for T-shirts or other clothes that collect energy while worn.

[OntheWilderSide] Global Warming: How Immediate is the Crisis? video « OntheWilderSide: Scott Carlin, the founder of the Long Island Climate Solutions Network, speaking about Global Warming: How Immediate is the Crisis? www.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Energy and Global Warming News ...: That figure, however, only covers money given to lawmakers from the various political action committees (PACs) of corporations and advocacy groups and does not include donations from specific employees of the various companies or law firms that lobby on those issues.

[Coyote Blog] A Helpful Primer on the Politics of a Carbon Tax | Coyote Blog: Why?  Well, for one, it doesn’t have mandatory targets and timetables.  Thus it doesn’t guarantee specific emissions results and thus doesn’t guarantee specific climate benefits.  Perhaps more important, it doesn’t allow us to join the other nations of the world in setting science-based targets and timetables.  Also, a tax lacks all of the key complementary measures ”” many of which are in Waxman-Markey ”” that are essential to any rational climate policy, but which inherently complicate any comprehensive energy and climate bill.

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