Posts Tagged ‘Warming’

Tea party: Warming or resigned to Mitt Romney? (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colo., Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – Long skeptical of Mitt Romney, tea party activists are either warming up to the GOP presidential front-runner or reluctantly backing him after abandoning hope of finding a nominee they like better.


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Cashman warming up to hot stove 

With 30 major-league GMs gathered at the same hotel for 48-72 hours, it’s easy to imagine a whole lot of wheeling and dealing taking place at the meetings this week.

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Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real (AP)

In this Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 photo, Richard Muller, left, and his daughter, Elizabeth Muller, right, pose with a map from their study on climate at their home in Berkeley, Calif. A new study of Earth’s temperatures going back more than 200 years finds the same old story: It’s gotten hotter in the last 60 years. What’s different is the scientist behind the latest study, Richard Muller. The California physicist was doubtful of what climate scientists have been saying - until he did his own research, partly funded by climate change skeptics. Elizabeth Muller, co-founder and executive director of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Study, ran the study. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP – A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.


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The American ‘allergy’ to global warming: Why? (AP)

In this July 15, 2011 photo, atop roughly two miles of ice, technician Marie McLane launches a data-transmitting weather balloon at Summit Station, a remote research site operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and situated 10,500 feet above sea level, on top of the Greenland ice sheet. Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that manmade greenhouse gases are warming the planet, accelerating the melt of Greenland's ice, and yet resistance to the idea appears to have hardened among many Americans. Why? 'The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows,' concludes one scholar who has studied the phenomenon. Analysts now see climate as another battleground in America's left-right 'culture wars.' (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP – Tucked between treatises on algae and prehistoric turquoise beads, the study on page 460 of a long-ago issue of the U.S. journal Science drew little attention.


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Perry expresses doubts on manmade global warming (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks in Bedford, N.H., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011.  (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP – GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming, calling it a scientific theory that has not been proven.


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Perry says he doesn’t believe in global warming (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks in Bedford, N.H., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011.  (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)AP – GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry told New Hampshire voters Wednesday that he does not believe in manmade global warming, calling it a scientific theory that has not been proven.


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Gore: Obama lacks `bold action’ on global warming (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2011 file photo, former US Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore delivers his speech in Jakarta, Indonesia. Gore is doing what few environmentalists and fellow Democrats have done before, criticizing President Barack Obama's record on global warming. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)AP – Former Vice President Al Gore is doing what few environmentalists and fellow Democrats have done before, criticizing President Barack Obama’s record on global warming.


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