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House GOP bows to fossil fuel bosses
2013-07-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: We are facing an epic dilemma: Our use of fossil fuels isnt being curbed by supply or demand. Domestic natural gas supplies are growing, and prices are dropping. Yet if we burn all the fossil fuels that are accessible with modern techniques such as fracking and directional drilling, we are doomed. Burning coal, oil and natural gas releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which contributes to global warming. This is what causes extreme weather like blazing heat waves, prolonged droughts, storm...
GOP senator: 'Tolerance' needed for different climate change views
2013-07-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Thursday that people should be more open minded to differing opinions on climate change. At the very least, I think its time for some tolerance in the public discourse regarding the many scientific viewpoints on climate change. Respect should be shown to those who have done the research and come to a different conclusion, Wicker said during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on climate science. The consensus in the scientific community...
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How the GOP Could Win the Climate Debate
2013-07-16 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Real Clear Science: Someone in the GOP needs to say it: conservation is conservative; climate change is real; and conservatives need to lead on solutions because we have better answers than the other side. From traditionalists like Russell Kirk to progressive conservatives (far from an oxymoron) like Theodore Roosevelt, to movement conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, conservatives have long fought to protect the natural rights and property rights of individuals, living and unborn, from infringement...
House GOP Taking Immigration Bill 'Step by Step'
2013-07-16 17:07:35| ENR.com: Headline News
No word yet from Boehner on how House will deal with issue of visas for temporary workers in construction.
GOP senator presses Obama to defend climate change plan at hearing
2013-07-15 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) sent a letter to President Obama on Monday urging him to send an administration official to a hearing this week and defend his proposals to address climate change. Vitter said hes skeptical Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will maintain pledges to make the White House testify at a later hearing. To date, Chairman Barbara Boxer has refused to invite any government witnesses to participate in this hearing. Although she...
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