50,000 people tell the Senate to protect people, not polluters | Greenpeace USA

No Senator can honestly say that s/he doesn't know that coal may cost voters as much as $500,000,000,000 annually on top of the cost of electricity. Or that air pollution from burning coal kills up to 34,000 Americans every year.
...Senator Rockefeller wants a two-year delay of restrictions on global warming pollution. He's pitching it as prudent, but the truth is that EPA is usually happy on its own to delay regulations.

A question of balance - National News - National - Environment - Camden Advertiser

Californian heavyweight Henry Waxman called Republicans a ''party of science deniers'' and declared that they ''can't cure cancer by passing a bill that declares smoking safe. And they can't stop climate change by declaring it a hoax.''
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In Australia last week, as a talkback radio campaign urged voters objecting to the government's proposed action on climate change to rally against a carbon tax, local scientists put out a strong, bluntly worded statement of their own, pleading for politicians and the public to heed and respect the scientific findings on climate change.

''The peer-reviewed verdict is in. Action on climate change is too important to be derailed by naysayers and Luddites,'' said Anna-Maria Arabia, chief executive of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS), which represents 60,000 working scientists.