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Experts warn of climate change errors

February 16, 2009 By Morning Star

Leading scientists warned a US conference on climate change at the weekend that the rate of global warming has been seriously underestimated.

Organize for a green economy, Ellison tells participants in national conference

February 7, 2009

WASHINGTON (PAI) -- Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., urged 2,000 delegates to the Good Jobs Green Jobs conference to build support in communities across the nation for a new, green economy.

Climate change: Obama signals end to era of denial

January 28, 2009 By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - Environmental activists have hailed the first moves by U.S. President Barack Obama to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by setting tough new fuel efficiency and pollution standards for the country's...

Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe

March 11, 2008 By Sam Webb

Greenhouse gases can be both a curse and a blessing. Too little in the atmosphere leads to the cooling of the earth, too much to its heating up. If the atmosphere were free of greenhouse gases,...