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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged Global Warming

The Colorado River cuts through a mesa. (Photo/Wolfgang Staudt, Flickr)

Salazar: Bleak USGS Rocky Mountain water report shows ‘real impacts of carbon pollution’

By | 06.14.11 | 9:09 am

There’s more bad news for water watchers in the Rocky Mountain West, where record snowpack from last winter has led to a dangerous runoff in some places, including Colorado’s Western Slope. The bad news is this season is apparently a statistical blip in a 30-year historical decline in Rocky Mountain snowpack, which provide between 60 and 80 percent of the water supply for the 70 million people living in the western United States.

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Romney the RINO: GOP frontrunner (still) believes in climate change science

By | 06.09.11 | 12:30 pm

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the Mormon former governor of Massachusetts who led the nation in government-based health reform, is already no favorite with the Tea Party-wing of the Republican electorate. He has now cemented that unpopularity by saying in public what he said in his book last year: that he stands behind the vast majority of the world’s climate scientists who believe that the planet is warming and that that’s a bad thing and that humans are no small part of the problem– not that he’s going to do anything about it, policy-wise.

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Pawlenty: Human contribution to climate change still up for debate

By | 04.06.11 | 5:01 am

Science is still unclear how much humans contribute to global climate change, but the consensus seems to be “it’s a modest amount,” former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Friday in an interview with WHO-AM’s Jan Mickelson.

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Colorado climate-change clash: Gardner votes down DeGette on greenhouse gases

By | 03.16.11 | 12:27 pm

The House Energy and Commerce Committee was the site of a climate change Colorado showdown Tuesday. Considering a bill that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating green-house gas emissions, the committee’s majority Republicans voted in lockstep against broad consensus among the world’s scientists that climate change exists. Colorado Democratic member of the committee Rep. Diana DeGette introduced an amendment that asserted that greenhouse gases generated by human activity were the “root cause” of global warming. Colorado Republican Rep. Cory Gardner joined with the other thirty Republicans in voting down DeGette’s amendment and two other similar amendments put forward by Democrats.

Al Gore discusses climate change and forest health in Aspen. Troy Hooper photo

Gore says Colorado must face fact bark beetle devastation is linked to global climate change

By | 02.18.11 | 10:09 pm

While Al Gore’s passion for the environment helped him ascend to the highest political offices – and earned him a Nobel prize and an Oscar — he told a symposium audience in Aspen Friday night that the Colorado forests he learned to love on a road trip 40 years ago have plunged into despair no thanks to rising temperatures, poor political will and tiny insects.

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House Republicans take aim at EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases

By | 02.12.11 | 5:56 am

The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases.

Colorado’s new Public Health and Environment director still hedging on climate change science

By | 02.04.11 | 6:14 pm

In the end, after some false starts and rhetorical meandering, the question was simple: Do you believe that carbon dioxide is a green house gas and contributes to climate change and therefore poses a serious health threat to humans? Al Gore and an overwhelming majority of climate scientists the world over answer a straightforward yes to that question. Most of the Republicans in Congress, however, answer no. Oil and gas climate “researchers” also answer no. Dr. Chris Urbina, the new Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment didn’t seem sure how to answer the question, or at least didn’t know how to answer state Republican senators asking him the question at his confirmation hearing Thursday.

Anti-regulation U.S. Chamber of Commerce pouring record sums into lobbying

By | 01.28.11 | 1:18 pm

The Obama years have so far been a predictable boom-time for the army of anti-regulation lobbyists paid by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that the Chamber spent $276 million over the past two years lobbying against, among other things, health care reform, environmental protections and Wall Street regulations. The Chamber is the number-one spender on lobbying this year as in years past, but it is outdoing itself, setting records in its own outrageous largess. In just the last three months of 2010, the Chamber spent $50.9 million on lobbying at the federal, state and grassroots levels. That’s a step down from last year, when in the last financial quarter as health and financial industry reform were being discussed in DC, the Chamber spent $79 million from October through December to defeat or water-down Democratic legislation.

A problem: Climate change remains mostly a political story

By | 11.24.10 | 11:44 am

One of the standout moments in the last weeks of the heated U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Republican Ken Buck against Democrat Michael Bennet came when Buck appeared on the stump with famous climate-change-denying U.S. Senator James Inhofe,…

Colorado climate scientists aghast at Buck views on global warming

By | 10.26.10 | 3:01 pm

Members of Colorado’s world-renowned climate science research community blasted U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck at a conference Friday for touting his skepticism about global warming and supporting arch-climate change denier Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who believes global warming…

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