Nancy Pelosi to bring climate change bill to floor - Patrick O'Connor - POLITICO.com

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will roll the dice on a top priority this week, bringing a contentious climate change bill to the floor despite strong misgivings from her rank-and-file and an outspoken chairman who remains a major impediment.

7 Democrats Join Paul Broun Head In the Sand Climate Amendment

We’re getting used to U.S. Representative Paul Broun promoting bizarre ideas, but a new amendment of his really takes the cake. Last week, Representative Broun offered an amendment to a commerce appropriations bill that would have forbidden any spending on a National Climate Service. The proposed National Climate Service will conduct research into climate change, but would have been stopped from doing so if Broun had his way.

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Our grandchildren can cry about phony global warming as they're paying off Obama's $12 trillion debt I guess.

Academic joins Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

A USQ academic will contribute to a global database on greenhouse gas emission factors during an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Santiago, Chile this month (June 24-26).

Dr Tek Maraseni, a research fellow from the Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments, is the only known Australian scientist to be attending the third expert meeting on data for the IPCC Database on Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors on Soil Carbon in Croplands and Grasslands.