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Researchers studying climate now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide and water vapor in a key part of Earth's atmosphere. The data are courtesy of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft and confirm the mainstream scientific view that large changes in the climate are likely over the next century.Moustafa Chahine, the instrument's science team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, unveiled the new...
The University of East Anglia announced Thursday it is formally investigating whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit falsified data on global warming studies, The Associated Press reported.In late November, emails between some of the world's leading climate scientists were stolen from the university and leaked to the Internet. As a result, skeptics of man-made global warming say the emails are proof that scientists have been conspiring to hide evidence showing that...
The University of East Anglia said Tuesday that the chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, The Associated Press reported.Phil Jones, whose e-mails were among the thousands of pieces of correspondence leaked to the Internet late last month, will relinquish his position as director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an...
Daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over past decadeSpurred by a warming climate, daily record high temperatures occurred twice as often as record lows over the last decade across the continental United States, new research shows.The ratio of record highs to lows is likely to increase dramatically in coming decades if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to climb.Results of the research, by authors at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Washington Briefing titled Advancing the Global Debate on Climate Change Policy will be held at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel on November 4. The 9.00-4.30 event will bring together scientists and policy experts, members of Congress and international leaders in a robust debate on the pros and cons of climate change legislation being developed in the Congress, and the agreements that might emerge from the Copenhagen Climate Summit in...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by StopTheWitchHunt.org: This Halloween, take action against the lies and hate speech that Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Paul Brown, and Pat Buchanan have been spewing in a nationwide witch hunt. Echo Justice, a coalition of national and local organizations launched a multi-media counter to the right-wing's echo chamber. StopTheWitchHunt.org is a newly formed multimedia watch dog portal that will use...
A new poll released this week shows that Americans are becoming more skeptical about global warming.The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press polled 1,500 US adults from September 30 to October 4.The new poll found that only 57 percent of Americans believe there is "solid evidence" for the existence of global warming, compared to 71 percent in April 2008.Additionally, the poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe global warming is caused by human activity has dropped...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Taylor Crichton filed papers in the Los Angeles Probate Court in connection with a petition Taylor intends to file seeking to remove Mrs. Sherri Crichton as a Co-Trustee of her late husband Michael Crichton's trust. Adam Streisand, partner of Loeb & Loeb and Mrs. Sherri Crichton's attorney, commented: "Taylor Crichton has absolutely no legal or factual basis to make any claim that Mrs. Crichton has done anything other than faithfully...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization Of A New Destiny, issued the following statement about the scandalous and shameful way NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith treated Rush Limbaugh, effectively blocking his bid as part of a group to purchase the St. Louis Rams: "As an American civil-rights leader I am deeply disturbed by the unfair treatment...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Taylor Crichton filed papers in the Los Angeles Superior Court to challenge the paternity of Michael Crichton's eight-month old son, John Michael Todd Crichton, in order to block him from obtaining his rightful inheritance from his father. Michael Crichton was in the process of updating his estate plan to include John Michael but was unable to complete revisions before he passed away. As a matter of public policy, the law provides for a child...
