Cities, towns step up global warming fight (Boston Globe: Mon, 25 Dec) BOULDER, Colo. - Frustrated with the federal response to global warming, hundreds of cities, suburbs, and rural communities across the United States are taking bold steps to slash their energy consumption and reduce emissions of the pollutants that cause climate change.
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Global warming not to blame for weather (Sentinel & Enterprise: Sun, 24 Dec) The surprisingly warm weather recently is not a manifestation of the often-blamed global warming. And it's not nationwide, either. "Las Vegas has already seen more snow than Fitchburg has this year," said Alan Durham, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton.
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'Liar' charge is no help in the debate over global warming (Boston Globe: Sun, 24 Dec) I RECENTLY testified before the US Senate on the issue of global warming. Among the other witnesses was Harvard professor Daniel P. Schrag. Schrag and I disagree on the issue. But as scientists and scholars, presumably we are both dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of truth.
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Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island (Independent: Sun, 24 Dec) Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.
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Global warming 'may impact' bluefin tuna (AAP via Yahoo!7 News: Mon, 25 Dec) Bluefin tuna stocks in the Pacific could be hit seriously by the end of this century if global warming progresses at the current pace, researchers say.
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