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Posts Tagged Climate Change

Casida takes on Tipton: Conservative says West Slope congressman isn’t her cup of tea

By | 12.01.11 | 10:07 am

Tisha Casida is a 29-year-old southern Colorado-bred conservative. The Keystone XL Pipeline, she suggests, is safer and probably better for the environment than sending oil tankers across the Atlantic. The country’s conflict over carbon dioxide, she hints, may be as much a waste of time as the war on drugs. She makes no bones that she is disappointed in her congressman, Scott Tipton, because he hasn’t demonstrated leadership on a few crucial issues, like speaking out against the Patriot Act.

Federal officials caught in ‘snarky’ exchange with public over coal mine expansion

By | 11.30.11 | 6:59 am

Clearly U.S. Forest Service (USFS) officials and opponents of coal mine expansion in western Colorado won’t be exchanging Christmas cards this holiday season. Instead, shovelfuls of coal and snark to spare will be dumped in their respective stockings.

In Texas, climate change is the thing that must not be named

By | 10.20.11 | 7:26 am

After deleting references to climate change from a study on rising sea levels, a Texas environmental regulatory agency has reached a standoff with the researcher who authored the report, and will scrap the study entirely.

A beetle kill forest near Breckenridge (Image: Hustvedt, Wikimedia Commons)

Pine beetles on the march to world domination?

By | 10.01.11 | 7:04 am

As the planet heats up, forests die. Pine beetles–formerly killed during harsh winters, thrive, turning much of Colorado a dirty brown. As forest die, they trap less carbon dioxide, causing the earth to get warmer still.

Al Gore speaking in Aspen earlier this year. (Hooper)

Al Gore dials it up a notch with 24-hour climate charge

By | 09.15.11 | 5:28 pm

Former Vice President Al Gore is honored by the blowback he received after he blasted climate change deniers with a certain eight-letter epithet during an off-the-cuff speech last month in Aspen.

(Photo by Patrick Michels)

New polls show Perry leading Romney, but Obama leading Perry

By | 09.15.11 | 10:35 am

A poll released this week by Bloomberg shows Texas Governor Rick Perry with a small lead (26-22) over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, with no other candidate preferred by even 10 percent of Republicans. Perry, though, is viewed favorably by only three in ten Americans while being viewed unfavorably by four in ten. Perry, at this point, trails Obama 49-40 among all voters, according to the poll.

Professional snowboarder Jeremy Jones is in Washington, D.C., to talk about climate change. (Photo courtesy of Protect Our Winters)

Pro snow riders bumming out over GOP’s assault on the EPA and climate science

By | 09.14.11 | 6:28 am

A trio of professional snow shredders are charging the biggest hill in
Washington, D.C., this week. Their message: Congress is getting too radical on Capitol Hill.

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New NCAR study finds little climate benefit in switch from coal to natural gas

By | 09.09.11 | 1:20 pm

Natural gas may be a cleaner-burning energy source than coal, but making the switch isn’t likely to slow global warming any time soon, according to a new study in the journal Climatic Change.

Patrick Michels/Texas Independent

Perry debuts ‘like a piñata’ at GOP debate, wins applause for execution record

By | 09.08.11 | 12:13 pm

All eyes focused on Texas Gov. Rick Perry as he made his debate debut Wednesday evening at the fourth GOP showdown, this one hosted by Politico and NBC.

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When it comes to energy, some politicians prefer to talk about jobs

By | 08.29.11 | 2:52 pm

What’s the difference between a Democrat and a Republican in Congress these days? In one key aspect, not a lot. They’re both talking about jobs, jobs, jobs. That much became apparent in a session last week in Denver when aides to U.S. Sen. Michael Bennett and U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter met with members of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society.

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