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Posts Tagged Global Warming

Snowless ski race helps connect dots between climate change, real problems

By | 05.07.12 | 9:21 am

Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.

Forestry budgets sapped by scourges of warming climate

By | 03.06.12 | 2:42 pm

The warming climate is breeding more beetle-ravaged forest and prolonged fire seasons, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell testified before a Senate committee on Tuesday, as he fielded questions about the White House’s proposed agency budget for fiscal year 2013.

Santorum and Gingrich dismiss climate change, vow to dismantle the EPA

By | 02.06.12 | 5:30 pm

GOLDEN — A day before Republicans voice their presidential preferences in Colorado caucuses, Rick Santorum dismissed climate change as “a hoax” and advocated an energy plan heavy on fossil fuels.

In Colorado classrooms, climate change skepticism rising like ocean levels

By | 01.31.12 | 10:23 am

Climate change skepticism is creeping into classrooms even as advocacy groups try to broaden their reach using new-school X Games athletes to spread the message to high schools students.

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.

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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.

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Green voter anger at Obama could open door for ‘environmental clown’ Perry, observers say

By | 09.08.11 | 1:24 pm

Even before tonight’s jobs speech, conservation groups in Colorado and across the Rocky Mountain West say it’s clear President Barack Obama has chosen polluting industry jobs over other employment sectors, demoralizing the environmental base ahead of the 2012 campaign.

Texas Army National Guard helicopters respond to North Texas fires in April. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm McClendon/Flickr)

As Texas blazes roar, Udall says Colorado not yet out of wildfire woods

By | 09.07.11 | 12:00 pm

Despite the recent round of wet weather in Colorado – including some snow above 12,000 feet – Colorado politicians and fire officials warned fall can be one of the most active seasons for wildfires.

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

Something stinks in the climate change debate

By | 08.15.11 | 8:24 am

No wonder global warming has Al Gore so hot under the collar. His harangue against climate change deniers induced a frenzy of conservative chest-pounding last week wherein Fox News and the usual suspects swore his scatological sermon must be a symptom of dementia. They went on to spew the same misleading memes the ex-vice president decried in Aspen.