You are browsing the archive for Global Warming.

‘Fracking’ overtakes ‘Climate Change’ in Google searches

December 25, 2012 in The Dickinson Press

Pro and anti-drilling camps trade barbs for the cameras
Continue Reading

‘Fracking’ overtakes ‘Climate Change’ in Google searches

December 25, 2012 in The Dickinson Press

Pro and anti-drilling camps trade barbs for the cameras
Continue Reading

OUR VIEW: Heat renews debate about global warming

August 10, 2012 in The Daily Republic

Five years ago, The Daily Republic opined that maybe there is something to all of this global warming talk.
Continue Reading

July in US was hottest in recorded history

August 8, 2012 in The Daily Republic

WASHINGTON This probably comes as no surprise: Federal scientists say July was the hottest month ever recorded in the Lower 48 states, breaking a record set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Continue Reading

OPINION: Climate vs. weather – Is it warming, or is it just too darn hot?

July 9, 2012 in The Daily Republic

WASHINGTON As Washington, D.C., endures a record ninth straight day of near-triple-digit temperatures, it might be hard for the city’s residents to remember that just two years ago, when the capital was blanketed with record snowfall, Republican senator and noted climate change skeptic James Inhofe and his family were building an igloo on the national mall to mock former vice president and leading environmentalist Al Gore.

Continue Reading

Avatar of WDAZ

by WDAZ

This Summer is ‘What Global Warming Looks Like’

July 2, 2012 in WDAZ

WASHINGTON (AP) If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
Continue Reading

John Dwyer, Bismarck, column: EPA puts jobs, low-cost electricity at risk

June 14, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald

The Clean Air Act never was intended to regulate greenhouse gases, but President Barack Obama’s administration has been implementing new rules directed at just that: regulating greenhouse gases. Continue Reading

New U.S. planting map for gardeners revised to reflect global warming

January 25, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald

It’s the first time since 1990 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has revised the official guide for the nation’s 80 million gardeners, and much has changed. Nearly entire states, such as Ohio, Nebraska and Texas, are in warmer zones. Continue Reading

Experts say key to slowing global warming is to cut emissions of methane, soot

January 12, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald

An international team of scientists says it’s figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air. And they say their proposals would save more money than it would cost. Continue Reading

United Nations negotiators struggle to keep world’s only global warming treaty alive

December 9, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world’s poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling against an unlikely alliance of the United States, China and India. Bleary-eyed delegates worked through the night and all day today, and the two-week U.N. conference stretched past the hour it was supposed to end, with the negotiators looking ahead to a second and final night of meetings expected to last until dawn Saturday. Continue Reading