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Royal Society's climate change guide cuts confusion out of the hard science | Duncan Clark | Environment | guardian.co.uk

UK's 'definitive voice of science' hopes guide will counter confusion and bogus claims about man-made global warming
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The document entirely supports the mainstream scientific view of man-made climate change as summarised by the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Hopes dim for energy bill in Senate - Darren Samuelsohn and Josh Voorhees - POLITICO.com

Senate Democratic leaders are backing away from plans to tackle any type of energy legislation during the upcoming lame duck session, including a renewable electricity standard and a response to the BP oil spill.

Jay Rockefeller: Anti-EPA climate bill won't pass - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Congress won’t act this year to block the Obama administration from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, a key coal state senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) acknowledged that his bid to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s global warming policies is only a "message" bill that doesn't have any chance of making it into law.

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Tom Friedman at Stanford energy conclave: He's with Cheney on acting on low-chance, big outcome risk (Cheney on Iraq WMD; Friedman on CO2)