Friday, April 12, 2013

Stephen Harper’s energy minister denies climate change science | canada.com
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is casting doubt on climate change science.

“I think that people aren’t as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees,” Oliver said in an editorial board interview with Montreal daily newspaper, La Presse.

“Scientists have recently told us that our fears (on climate change) are exaggerated.”
United Nations News Centre - Sustainable development of oceans key to ending hunger, says UN official at Pacific meeting
12 April 2013 – The fight against hunger and climate change will hinge on the success of sustainable development of oceans and fisheries, a top United Nations official stressed today, adding that there can be “no truly ‘green economy’ without a ‘blue economy.’”
Global Warming Over Land Is Real: CU-Boulder, NOAA Study
Compo, in an email, stated that the actual number the 20CR analysis showed for warming since 1952 was 0.78 degrees Celsius, which he termed "statistically indistinguishable" from 1.18 degrees Celsius.
Environmental Questions Take Back Seat at Hearing for E.P.A. Nominee - NYTimes.com
Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, tried to turn the hearing into a seminar on global warming but few of his colleagues on either side of the aisle were willing to engage.

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