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Today, Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he wasn’t touching the Keystone pipeline decision with a ten-foot pole: “I am staying as far away from that as I can now so that when the appropriate time comes to me, I am not getting information from any place I shouldn’t be , and I am not getting engaged in the debate at a time that I shouldn’t be,” Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Right now, Kerry has the State Department’s Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, but if that is all he information he relies on, he won’t get the full picture. While he will see that the project will only bring 35 permanent jobs , which is true, he would also see almost no discussion of the pipeline’s impact on the climate

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If the UK Telegraph does not retract and apologize for James Delingpole’s latest piece of pure hate speech , then it is declaring its own publication policies a sham.

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Memo to Nocera: You really need to issue a retraction and multiple apologies, rather than writing yet another error-riddled smear job on Hansen. The good news is that I’m home from Johns Hopkins, sans pancreatic neuro-endocrine tumor, with a very good prognosis. The bad news is NY Times business columnist Joe Nocera took this moment to utterly misrepresent two (!) posts of mine in a shameless effort to smear the nation’s top climatologist, James Hansen.

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An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists found that 93 percent of Fox News’ recent climate change coverage was misleading. Over the last two years, several leading scientists have told Media Matters the same thing, calling Fox’s climate change stories “completely wrong,” “patently false,” and “utter nonsense.” Here are ten scientists who have criticized Fox for distorting science to downplay the threat of climate change: 1. Scientist Called Fox’s Global Warming Claims “Utter Nonsense.” Last summer, Fox News hosted global warming “expert”  Joe Bastardi  to claim that the human-induced climate change contradicts the 1st law of thermodynamics and Le Chatelier’s Principle

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How much extra energy are we putting in the atmosphere through emission of greenhouse gases? One Australian researcher put it into context : “The radiative forcing of the CO2 we have already put in the atmosphere in the last century is … the equivalent in energy terms to almost half a billion Hiroshima bombs each year.” With more energy radiating down on the planet rather than back up into space, the planet continues to heat up. As the atmosphere warms, it is able to hold more water vapor — thus strengthening the global hydrological cycle.

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Arctic sea ice extent takes a nosedive this year. What does it mean for us? (Source:  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ) By Neven Acropolis with Kevin McKinney In the past week the Arctic sea ice cover reached an  all-time low , several weeks before previous records, several weeks before the end of the melting season. The long-term decline of Arctic sea ice has been incredibly fast, and at this point a sudden reversal of events doesn’t seem likely.

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by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz, via Planet Change In the wake of the economic crash of 2008, the resilience of millions of Americans’ personal finances collapsed in the face of unexpected stresses — loss of a job, collapse of a home’s value, decline in stock prices, or a medical emergency. Personal bankruptcy filings accelerated from just under 600,000 in 2006 to over 1.5 million in 2010. Sometimes the stresses piled on one another, as when the loss of a job deprived a family of medical insurance and then a medical emergency hit

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by Peter Sinclair, via Climate Change and the Media A basketball metaphor illustrating changing stats pairs with analyses from a range of experts and independent commentaries in a Yale Forum video capturing the stresses of the summer’s weather anomalies across the U.S.: “Oh the weather outside is frightful.” You can forget about the next line … chances of snow are nil for most of the United States for the next several months. It’s the first line of the second verse that might be a bit more relevant, though not very comforting: “It doesn’t show signs of stopping.” Holiday carolers and those behind the “Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow” lyrics could not have had the nation’s 2012 spring and summer in mind when they penned those words

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/04/634901/arctic-death-spiral-continues-new-record-low-sea-ice-volume-appears-likely.

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The frustration of one moderate Republican House member boiled over today, with Ohio Rep.

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