U.S. Sen. Harkin: 21 western Iowa counties designated as presidential disaster declaration areas

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has declared 21 counties in Iowa as “Presidential Disaster” areas. This declaration will trigger the release of Federal funds to help the State and local governments recover from the damage caused during December’s severe winter storms. Harkin wrote to President Obama on January 29 supporting Governor Culver’s request for this declaration.

[Oct '09: Tom Harkin on global warming]

On another high-profile issue, Harkin said it is time for the U.S. to move forward to stem global warming via the Boxer-Kerry climate change bill that some see having dim odds of passage in 2009. Harkin says he supports the bill and “hopes” it advances, since the U.S. uses the most energy and is the globe’s biggest polluter.

“We have to take the lead in the world,” and “show the rest of the world we mean business” to reduce carbon emissions, Harkin said.

The Scholar and Feminist Conference on Feminism and Climate Change | NYLCV - New York League of Conservation Voters

Event Date: 02/27/2010
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The Barnard Center for Research on Women brings together a group of panelists to explore how global climate change poses not just a disproportionate threat to some, but also how scholars and activists are responding. How does social exploitation parallel environmental exploitation in regional and global contexts, and how can an analysis of gender and race help build an effective response? How can the diverse groups that are affected find common ground? What are the challenges and complexities of working within multiple movements, including those for environmental, racial, and gender justice?

BBC tells the truth – shock horror! – iceberg not caused by global warming – Telegraph Blogs

It may seem like zero coming up in roulette, but British state television refrained from telling a global-warmist porkie on this one.
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In itself, it is a very small victory for the truth; but its implications are enormous. It tells us the scam merchants are on the back foot; they are in retreat; it will still require trench warfare for years to dislodge them, but the tide has turned. Just one sentence, almost a throwaway line, in a news report, but it signals an awareness that we are on their case. The AGW hysterics have irretrievably lost the battle for public opinion and now it is time to peel their layers of fabrication and falsehood like an onion.