Monday, March 01, 2010

Global Warming Kicks Up Allergy Storm - Health News - Health.com
Between 1981 and 2007, the researchers noted an earlier start for pollen season. In the case of parietaria, the pollen season began about 80 days sooner at the end of the study period than it did at the beginning.
Feb 23, 2010: Black Eyed Peas push climate [swindle] bill - The Hill's E2-Wire
On Tuesday afternoon, will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas is slated to announce a new partnership between the popular band and three groups including the League of Conservation Voters (LCV).
[Global warming swindle threatens] Europe’s Forests - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
Europe’s forests have been expanding for the past 60 years.
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Those demands included increasing need for pasture to meet food needs, use of croplands to produce biofuels and conversion of land for urban development, Mr. Potocnik said. In the future, there will also be more demand for forest products from the renewable energy industry for biomass products to burn for heat and electricity.
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But potentially the greatest threat to forests was from climate change, which Mr. Potocnik said had already driven up average temperatures in Europe by 1 degree Celsius in the past century and threatens to unleash deadly pests, set off more forest fires and destructive storms and alter the suitability of entire regions for certain types of forest.
Inhofe accused of turning climate row into 'McCarthyite witch-hunt' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Michael Mann, a scientist at Penn State University who is on Inhofe's list of 17, said that he had seen a sharp rise in hostile email since November.

"Some of the emails make thinly veiled threats of violence against me and even my family, and law enforcement authorities have been made aware of the matter," he told the Guardian.

He said the attacks appeared to be a co-ordinated effort. "Some of them look cut-and-paste."
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Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at Nasa's Goddard Institute who is also on the list of 17, said he had seen an increase in freedom of information act requests. "In my previous six years I dealt with one FoIA request. In the last three months, we have had to deal with I think eight," he said. "These FoIAs are fishing expeditions for potentially embarrassing content but they are not FoIA requests for scientific information."

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