Friday, March 08, 2013

Obama's EPA chief pick known for dogged pursuit of anti-climate change policies
Inhofe recalls her response to his pointed question years ago, when he chaired the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He asked whether costly EPA air quality regulations would actually have any effect on reducing carbon dioxide levels worldwide.

"She said, no, it wouldn't because this isn't where the problem is. It's in China, it's in India," Inhofe said. "Well, that took a lot of courage to be that honest."
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Climate change reforms would save $20bn: Coalition | News | Business Spectator
The Coalition has said it will produce $20 billion in budget savings by cutting from the climate change bureaucracy and industry carbon assistance if elected in September's federal vote, according to The Australian Financial Review.
The Guilfordian : Talking about a queer Quaker response to climate change
studies show that gay and lesbian people are much more interested in climate issues than straight people, to the point of 55 percent compared to 30 percent of straight people.
Meteorologist On Climate Change: Viewers Are Less Skeptical, Forecasts Getting Fuzzier
Dan Satterfield recently recalled the angry emails that used to flood his inbox whenever he brought up climate change on the air.

"I don't get very many at all now," Satterfield, the chief meteorologist at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md., said this week. "The number of climate skeptics has really dropped. I think we are basically left with the conspiracy theory types."

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