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Reuters' climate coverage slashed under "skeptic editor"
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Last week, former Reuters reporter David Fogarty published a scathing letter online accusing his former employer of abandoning coverage of climate change. Fogarty, who had been covering climate change in Asia, said he'd been told climate change was no longer a top-priority issue for the wire service. Fogarty described one high-level editor, Paul Ingrassia, as a climate skeptic and said that it became increasingly difficult to publish stories on global warming under his leadership: In April...
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05.01: Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
2013-04-15 18:37:00| Powells Books Events Calendar
Part adventure story, part cultural history, David Downie's Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James (Pegasus) explores the phenomenon of pilgrimage along the age-old Way of Saint James in France. This event is sponsored by Alliance Française de Portland.
Washington state climate skeptic disavowed by faculty
2013-03-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bellingham Herald: On March 26, 2013, a long-retired faculty member of our department, Don Easterbrook, presented his opinions on human-caused global climate change to the Washington State Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee at the invitation of the committee chair Sen. Doug Ericksen, R.-Ferndale. We, the active faculty of the Geology Department at Western Washington University, express our unanimous and significant concerns regarding the views espoused by Easterbrook, who holds a doctorate...
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EPA: Former McCarthy skeptic signals 2nd-round battle over nomination
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
E and E: Environmental and industry sources alike have praised current U.S. EPA air chief Gina McCarthy, President Obama's pick to head the agency, for her regulatory knowledge, straight-shooting personality and willingness to engage all sides. But McCarthy's open style may not matter when it comes to her confirmation in the Senate, since the process offers Republicans one of their best opportunities to weigh in on Obama's environmental regulations. "I have great reservations about her," Sen. John Barrasso...
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A global warming skeptic has a change of heart
2013-03-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tribune: I was a global warming skeptic. I questioned the validity of the studies purporting to be factual. You see, since the 1970s seawater temperatures along the coastline of San Luis Obispo County weren't changing to any great extent. If anything, they've been slowly trending downward. What caused this condition if the oceans were supposedly warming? After careful review of the wind data from the Diablo Canyon meteorological tower, I discovered that the northwesterly winds during the spring and summer...