Attacks on Climate Science Connected to New Era of Hydrocarbon Development, Climate Action Hotline 8.20.10

August 20, 2010
Attacks on Climate Science Connected to New Era of Hydrocarbon Development

There’s nothing polite about the House and Senate campaigns that attack directly the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and man-made carbon emissions are its primary cause. It doesn’t matter that independent scientific panels uniformly concluded that the emails stolen from East [...]

A Turning Point in Attack on Climate Science

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network

On May 5, in an unusually aggressive response to what they saw as an academic witch hunt, the University of Virginia Faculty Senate condemned state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand to turn over six years of documents related to the work of Michael Mann, a former UVa climate scientist.

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Report Examines Hidden Costs of Energy

The external damages from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter created by burning coal at 406 coal-fired power plants, which produce 95 percent of the nation’s coal-generated electricity, were about $62 billion in 2005. These nonclimate damages average about 3.2 cents for every kilowatt-hour of energy produced.
Those are some of the findings of [...]

Climate Change on Two Continents: Climate Action Hotline, Nov. 5

November 5, 2009

The work to clean the skies of climate changing pollution took center stage this week in influential policy forums on two continents– the 5-day UNFCCC climate negotiating session in Barcelona, and the U.S. Senate. The objective of climate advocates, which includes the White House and many Democrats on Capitol Hill was to [...]