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Unknown length - 2008-11-08 A fight within the Democratic Party over control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee could influence the outcome of President-elect Obama's efforts to limit the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.

Unknown length - 2008-11-07 The head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Friday that he hopes the United States will take a more active role in fighting global warming once Barack Obama becomes president.

From : YouTube :: Videos by greenpeaceusa President-elect Obama promises the U.S. will be represented at the U.N. climate talks in Poland. Author: greenpeaceusa Keywords: greenpeace obama president global warming climate change united nations UN Poland energy efficiency election bara...

By Joe That’s the part of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today.  No doubt he’s keeping his major remarks on global warming for Copenhagen next week (see “Obama’s double Copenhagen stunner: He agrees to global climate assistance fund for developing countries and will go to Denmark on the 18th...

Copenhagen: 'High Water Mark' for the Global Warming Movement? Seeking Alpha (blog) On December 8, the Obama administration's deputy special climate change envoy Jonathan Pershing blamed the developing nations: Pershing repeatedly noted ...

By sarahpalintruthsquad Sarah Palin’s column today in the Washington Post calling for President Obama to boycott the Copenhagen summit is pure malarkey. Which is why the Post was absolutely right to print it. Sarah Palin’s column today in the Washington Post calling for President Obama to boycott the C

By ignoranceisntbliss “I call it ’scientific fascism,’” Sensenbrenner said during a press conference with fellow climate change skeptics. Sensenbrenner said, “The U.N. should throw a red flag” on scientists who support global warming to the exclusion of dissent.

By Jacob Heilbrunn In allowing Palin to air her wacky views, the Washington Post isn't doing its readers a disservice. It's alerting them to what the radical right intends to accomplish if it's returned to office. Sarah Palin's column today in the Washington Post calling for President Obama to boycott the Co...

By LeisureGuy Once again, the Washington Post has given Sarah Palin the chance to harness herself to the political story of the hour. The former Alaska governor has written an op-ed, published Wednesday, about the "Climate-gate" controversy at East Anglia University. Palin calls on President Obama t...

The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people’s health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is prepared to contain global warming without congressional action if necessary. …

By Michael For more, see “Earth much more sensitive to global warming than thought.” Obama, in Shift, Expects Climate Deal at Summit Meanwhile, Pew has bolstered its presence in Washington of late. Climate Talks Aim to Move from Pledges to Action

By Joe The Obama administration set a provisional target for greenhouse gas pollution reductions. President Obama announced on November 25 a provisional U.S. greenhouse gas pollution reduction target “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. This was the first time the United Stat...

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By Suzanne Goldenberg The official declaration would allow Obama to use the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency to begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions. That would avoid waiting for action from Congress, where a proposed climate change law has stalled in the Senate.

By papundits At this stage, Australia will be represented by Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, but the prime minister may join US President Barack Obama on the sidelines as a new global pact is signed off. Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Aust...

By Robin McKie However, there was more encouraging news last week when India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, announced he would attend the summit, joining Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama on the final day of the meeting. India is the world's fourth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and has...

Unbelievable.  But also illuminating.  If there was ever a question that what was motivating the politicians on environmental issues were power grabs and enriching themselves and their cronies there shouldn’t be a question now.  Despite clear evidence that this science is far from “set...

By Joseph Romm Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. If the world doesn't stop catastrophic climate change -- Hell and High Water -- then all Presidents, indeed, all of us, will be seen as failures and ri...

By waltjr Podcast James Taranto on Obama, Alinsky and Fox. But Alinskyite tactics are of no use to Obama. As president of the United States, he is the ultimate Have. Maybe he is wearing an exquisite suit of clothes, but Obama doesn’t seem to have a clue that he is the emperor. We Blame Global Warming

By Emily Gertz Under the new rule, new or significantly modified facilities would be required to get pollution permits if they emit 25,000 tons or more of carbon dioxide and five other climate-changing pollutants. These facilities would be required to use the "best available control technologies" (...

By Jonathan The level of financing for renewable energy is not enough to cut carbon emissions and limit average global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the increase above which some of the most severe effects of climate change are predicted.

By papundits In case you haven’t heard, that was Secretary of Energy Steven Chu discussing your ability to curb greenhouse gas emissions. As long as we’re acting like teenagers, we might as well be treated like them. According to the Obama administration, we can’t understand what greenhouse gases are...

By Emily Gertz Given that the heads of state chewed over global warming at the United Nations Climate Summit on Tuesday, where will climate figure into tomorrow's G20 agenda of meetings? From what I heard at the Climate Summit, strong leadership by the US is still considered key to negotiating a strong...

By Emily Gertz In one of the sharpest breaks with its predecessor on the international stage, the Obama administration has promised that the United States is in the game on climate change policy, ready to cut emissions, fund research and development, and help developing nations both adapt to the wors...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Obama: ”...[T]he threat from climate change is serious, it is urgent, and it is growing.” Sydney's huge dust storm caused by global warming? U.S. SENATORS MOVE TO REIN IN EPA WHILE OBAMA TALKS TOUGH ON CLIMATE Climate change and the nanny state

By Emily Gertz While climate is not formally on the G20’s agenda, some are hoping that President Obama will come off his speech at the New York event ready to signal to other world leaders that the U.S. will lead on forging a strong replacement to the Kyoto Protocol treaty to reduce greenhouse-gas emission...

After signing into law legislation telling us all what kind of cars we drive, and putting in a hard week explaining why our carbon emissions need to be taxed to stave off a global warming apocalypse, Obama and Michelle and a posse of reporters and Secret Service agents hopped on a myriad of G...

By Emily Gertz The Obama administration is almost definitely not being riven from within by disagreements over how to handle global warming. But you wouldn't know that from how major news outlets broke a story today about the Environmental Protection Agency's endangerment finding on greenhouse gas...

By Joe “What can we do this year? I want to see a bipartisan bill on health care. I want to us attack this issue of global warming and climate change, and to make sure that America is moving toward energy independence, green jobs in this new economy. Those are things we can accomplish,” Durbin said on F...

By papundits Diplomats see the gathering of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European commission, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Britain, the United States, Denmark and the UN as an important ­station on the road to Copenhagen.

By Kevin Grandia The Obama administration has put the brakes on a Bush administration plan to open pristine Utah wildlands to oil and gas drilling. But an environmental activist who staged a one-man act of civil disobedience to do the same is being indicted on federal felony charges.

By Suzanne Goldenberg The EPA did not suggest regulations. But the ruling – coupled with Barack Obama's agenda of moving America to a low carbon economy – improves prospects that the US will move this year to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, possibly through a climate change bill now before Congress. Obama h...

By budsimmons But Holdren noted that shooting particles into the air—making an artificial volcano as one Nobel laureate has suggested—could have grave side effects and would not completely solve all the problems from soaring greenhouse gas emissions. So such actions could not be taken lightly, he s...

By budsimmons Asked about North Dakotans’ concerns that his carbon trading scheme might harm the state’s vital coal and power-generating industries, Mr. Obama quickly changed the subject:   OBAMA :       I actually think the science around climate change is real. It is potentially devastating.  The...

It’s not global warming.  It’s just a once-in-a-decade-or-so bad winter coupled with the unusual geography of the area. Not that politicians like Barack Obama aren’t above trying to capitalize on disaster and global warming hysteria for the sake of furthering their political agendas.

The president mentioned the flooding during his answer to Cole’s question about North Dakotans’ concerns about how a “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas reduction policy could hurt the state’s coal and power-generating industries.

The EPA has sent a proposal to President Obama that would allow the regulatory agency to begin suing greenhouse gas emitters (which is everyone, given that we all emit greenhouse gases during the course of berating and, uh, digesting) based on the notion that the global warming caused by...

By Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Tim Maby If Barack Obama commits America to the deep carbon cuts needed to tackle global warming, he'll face a revolution, Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, tells environment correspondent David Adam.

By budsimmons With the Obama administration calling for curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and the nation in the grip of the most severe economic downturn since 1929, it would seem prudent to re-examine the debate on the causes of global warming before tossing aside entire industries and technologie...

By cheaplikeme This is especially good considering news that was released on NPR today that global warming is irreversible, for practical purposes — meaning that we should reduce our carbon dioxide emissions NOW to try to have a positive influence for people in, oh, a thousand years. Good news on the car...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) How far do politicians believe they can push the global-warming scam? We know, after his inauguration, Barack Obama intends to officially classify carbon dioxide as a "dangerous pollutant." After such a declaration, his actions will reveal whether he truly views carbon dioxide as a th...

By cbowman@sacbee.com (Chris Bowman) Today and Friday are expected to be monumental in California's fight against global warming and air pollution. President-elect Barack Obama has said he intends to quickly reverse the Bush administration's decision last December to deny California authority to curb heat-trapping ca...

By Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte The message is: we can't let it get that far. This is why a detailed energy plan needs to be formulated to stop greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. Barack Obama has called for an 80% decrease of these emissions from current levels by the year 2050. Environment America (EA) has just rel...

By David Roberts If that's not enough to sour your Obamamania, get a load of this: Obama, who is sponsoring separate legislation to cap carbon dioxide emissions, said his support for coal fuel depended on finding a way to remove the greenhouse gases emitted in production.