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FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 9, 2010 (ENS) - A Siberian section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that stores vast amounts of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and is venting the potent greenhouse gas, an international research team reported Friday.
The permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic...
British officials and lawmakers carried out the first hearing against climate scientist Phil Jones yesterday over uncertainties in his research results made public by leaked emails now known as "Climategate." Simon Hoggart of The Guardian described Jones as "taut, nervous, often miserable. Often his...
Three major groups in America's pro-climate bill lobby announced their exit due to their opposition to the current direction of the Congressional plan to cap greenhouse gasses. BP America, Caterpillar, and ConocoPhillips announced their defection from the climate lobby simultaneously; a move that ma...
Lawyers representing the United States Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit in federal courts challenging a ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency that would allow them to collect fees from businesses for their greenhouse gas emissions. The Chamber of Commerce stated that it will not be challe...
Robert Watson, former chief of the United Nations IPCC, says that the current organization needs to investigate the warming bias present in the mistakes being uncovered in their assessment report. Watson said that if the numerous mistakes found in the IPCC report were truly innocent errors, as curre...
As record snowfall encases the Washington DC, climate skeptic congressmen and political pundits are using the opportunity to mock climate science. Some climate scientists are responding that global warming is to blame for the unusually cold winter and extreme weather, and point to the abnormally hig...
The Obama administration announced plans to form a federal office of climate science with the open intent of challenging the IPCC as the gold standard for research in this field. Described as "one-stop shopping" for climate information, the proposed service would vary greatly from programs institute...
Republican politicians across the country are joining in a campaign to repeal California's global warming law. In what is being called the "jobs initiative," Republicans nationwide are pushing a new piece of legislation that would suspend more than half of California's greenhouse gas laws if statewi...
Tomorrow when the delegations from the world's largest economies meet in Iqaluit, a capital "city" in the Canadian arctic, the meeting won't cover how to stop global warming, but rather how to profit from it. The remote location was chosen specifically for its proximity to Canada's northern border,...
Industry groups are suing California's recently adopted low-carbon fuel regulation on the basis that it discriminates against fuels not produced inside California's state limits. The first-of-its-kind law requires petroleum producers to reduce their carbon footprint by 10%, including extraction, pro...
