Study: Gingrich tax plan would worsen deficit

The tax plan by GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich would provide big tax breaks to the rich and blow a huge hole in the federal budget deficit, according to an independent study released Monday.

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Texas' most destructive wildfire season ever closes

Nov 15, 2011 10:58am EST DALLAS (Reuters) - The most destructive wildfire season in Texas history officially ends on Tuesday, but experts caution that the fire threat is far from over. "We see no real changes in the climate ahead," state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon told …

Federal report: Arctic much worse since 2006

Federal officials say the Arctic region has changed dramatically in the past five years — for the worse.

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Thawing permafrost vents gases to worsen warming

Massive amounts of greenhouse gases trapped below thawing permafrost will likely seep into the air over the next several decades, accelerating and amplifying global warming, scientists warn.

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November Warmth Still Breaking Records - WSJ

Monday’s hot spot was Newark, N.J., which made it to 72 — tying a record set in 1973. Central Park, New York City’s official weather observation site, hit 70 and toppled a record set in 1896.

Climate change and the acidifying, freshening, warming Southern Ocean

Report author Dr Steve Rintoul, Oceans Program Leader, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre The oceans as a whole are really important for climate because they can absorb huge amounts of heat and carbon dioxide.

Scientists sound alarm over Southern Ocean warming - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

New research shows the Southern Ocean is storing more heat than any other ocean in the world. The study, carried out by Tasmania's Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem centre, has found that carbon dioxide levels in the Southern Ocean will be corrosive to some shellfish by 2030 if  …

Weeding Out Corporate Psychopaths

Given the state of the global economy, it might not surprise you to learn that psychopaths may be controlling the world.

Last time carbon dioxide levels were this high: 15 million years ago, scientists report

You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.

Greenhouse gases soar; no signs warming is slowed

Heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are building up so high, so fast, that some scientists now think the world can no longer limit global warming to the level world leaders have agreed upon as safe.

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UN: Concentrations of greenhouse gases hit record

Global warming gases have hit record levels in the world's atmosphere, with concentrations of carbon dioxide up 39 percent since the start of the industrial era in 1750, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.

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November 18 News: Climate-Conscious Republicans Call Gingrich's Flip on Climate Change "Disconcerting"

“I don’t know if he’s just being opportunistic or of he’s had a real change of heart, but it is a bit disconcerting,” said Jim DiPeso, the policy director for Republicans for Environmental Protection. In the more than 30 years since Gingrich wa …

Science panel: Get ready for extreme weather

Think of the Texas drought, floods in Thailand and Russia's devastating heat waves as coming attractions in a warming world. That's the warning from top international climate scientists and disaster experts after meeting in Africa.

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A funny thing happened while Canada was dragging its feet on climate change: The permafrost began to melt

While the political debate raged on, with one Conservative MP musing not long ago about "alarmism" over climate change and Canada, meanwhile, cementing a reputation as an international laggard, reality intervened in the form of thawing tundra, landslides, erosion, flooding, and n …

IEA: Time running out to limit earth's warming

The International Energy Agency warned Wednesday that the world is hurtling toward irreversible climate change and will lose the chance to limit warming if it doesn't take bold action in the next five years.

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Experts Have Failed To Prepare Americans For Devastation Of Climate Change

Economists who have attempted to assess the exposure of the American economy to climate change have generally delivered insane underestimates based on a naive presupposition that wealth insulates the nation against significant damage, ignoring the systemic risks from the rapidl …

Bernie Sanders: Republicans Doing Nothing To Create Jobs

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Thursday it was “absurd” that Republicans claimed they were trying to create jobs. “They’re doing nothing to create jobs,” he told MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.

Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

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Almost half of Florida voters believe Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy to hurt Obama

The poll, which surveyed Florida voters, was conducted by Suffolk University.

Catastrophic $5.3 Billion Texas Drought Hits Global Cotton, Beef, Peanut Butter and Even Pumpkin Market

As the economic losses pile up, they are having an impact on global commodities like cotton and beef — stretching this crisis well beyond the state of Texas, and showing just how “global” the problem of global warming truly is.

Increase of extreme events in a warming world

A major new study has reanalyzed the connection between global warming and the record-breaking temperatures we’ve been seeing. Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou conclude in their PNAS paper, “Increase of extreme events in a warming world“:

APNewsbreak: Future holds more extreme weather

For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.

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Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

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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Republicans Done Jumped the Shark, Fox News Poll Favors Obama's Job Creation Policies

Well slap me silly and call me Susan, but on this day the Right Wing just thrown it’s feathery limb around President Obama’s job proposals.

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