The global-warming club has narrowed to the U.S. and China, he said, making it tougher to bring in the other nations necessary to achieve any sort of political bargain with the industrial economies.
Remember all the media brouhaha about global warming causing hurricanes that commenced following the devastating U.S. 2004 season?
Over at the Brookings Institution, Mark Muro recently argued that a carbon tax, by itself, might not be enough to make a significant dent in U.S. global-warming emissions.
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The public thinks it's likely that Obama will improve race relations, improve economic conditions, bring stability to the financial markets, make the U.S. safer from terrorism, reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, win the war in Afghanistan and remove U.S. troops from Iraq without causing a major upheaval in that country.
The United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is supposed to represent the best science of the U.S. government on the issue of global warming.
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While the pipeline project is a better alternative from a carbon pollution standpoint than shipping the oil by rail, the emissions created by harvesting tar sands, processing them into oil and eventually burning it in automobiles in the U.S. and abroad will contribute to global warming.
Some EU countries had clashed with the U.S. at the last effort to get the global warming strategy off the ground, in The Hague, last November.
CO2 Tech Ltd, a publicly traded company based in London that claimed to sell products for combating global warming, found itself on the wrong side of criminal fraud charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice last week.
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As U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to decline, one would think global warming alarmists would celebrate the ongoing achievement.
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Yet even as concerns about the price of oil and global warming have intensified--along with cries that the industry do something about it--U.S. energy policy has become increasingly impossible to count on, causing major problems for companies.
When a hurricane strikes the U.S. Northeast it only seems unusual because during recent decades, as global warming has gradually occurred, once-frequent Northeast hurricane strikes have almost ceased to exist.
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