Top senator hopes to work on climate change bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that he hoped senators would work on climate change legislation, though he did not provide a time frame for doing so. "Climate change is an extremely important issue for me ...www.chicagotribune.com
"I Thought We'd Already Answered That Question": Will Politicians Keep Talking ...
Then, suddenly, there was a new problem: Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, said that he wanted to pass immigration reform before the climate-change bill. It was a cynical ploy. Everyone in the Senate knew that there was no immigration bill. Reid ...www.tnr.com
Obama turns, in his victory speech, to the 'warming planet'
President Obama didn't say much about climate change during the election, even after Hurricane Sandy barreled into the East Coast, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered him a surprise endorsement premised on the notion the president would be better on ...www.capitalnewyork.com
The Day Climate Change Became A Second-Tier Concern Under Obama
In the summer of 2010, the US senate dropped the bill, with then Democrat Senate majority leader Harry Reid admitting: "We know we don't have the votes.www.businessinsider.com
Is co-operative energy the solution to climate change?
With climate change increasingly having a disastrous global impact, growing numbers of local communities are responding by launching their own renewable energy co-operatives in an effort to slash the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.socialenterprise.guardian.co.uk
New York's Bloomberg endorses Obama to lead on climate change
He said of Romney's position: "I think he is far better than Obama, who embraced the Markey-Waxman bill. That is the fear when you allow people like Pelosi and Reid and Obama to draft national legislation that is not so much aimed at climate change but ...www.guardian.co.uk
How does climate change cause extinction?
Authors:Abigail E. Cahill, Matthew E. Aiello-Lammens, M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid, Xia Hua, Caitlin J. Karanewsky, Hae Yeong Ryu, Gena C. Sbeglia, Fabrizio Spagnolo, John B. Waldron, Omar Warsi and John J. WiensJournal:Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...royalsociety.org
Frigid temperatures, blizzards no match for filmmaker Jeff Orlowski
In 2007, Orlowski began documenting photographer James Balog's quest to provide visual evidence of the world's changing climate.metronews.ca
Bloomberg endorses Obama, citing climate change
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today endorses President Barack Obama for reelection, citing, among other things, Obama's more aggressive approach to combating climate change. "We need leadership from the White House -- and over the past four years, ...www.capitalnewyork.com
Hook, line and sinker
Thanks, Jon, for picking up on that ridiculous study out of the University of B.C. that says the world's fish will be smaller because of climate change. I am sickened by the expenditure of public funds on these kinds of studies. Recently, a UBC ...www.theprovince.com
How global warming finally became a presidential campaign issue
But the primary issue the independent, aggressively antipartisan mayor cited for his decision is one that has decidedly not been front-and-center this campaign season, but which is suddenly unavoidable: climate change. "We need leadership from the ...www.capitalnewyork.com
2012 Election Results: Winners & Losers
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ... Even with Hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc all along the eastern seaboard in the final stretch running up to Election Day, neither of the presidential candidates gave the issue of climate change much thought.www.huffingtonpost.com
Obama claims victory: 'Long campaign now over'
By REID J. EPSTEIN | 11/7/12 2:17 AM EST. CHICAGO - There will be four more years. President Barack Obama claimed victory early Wednesday morning by ... Climate change, immigration reform, freeing the nation of foreign oil and, in what appeared to be ...www.politico.com
Republicans Keep The House; Democrats To Retain Senate
... while missteps from Tea Party favorites helped Democrats retain a majority in the Senate.That means the two chambers of Congress remain deeply divided, with prospects for agreement on such big-ticket items as deficits, tax rates and climate change ...www.northcountrypublicradio.org
Remaining in Nato 'would make terrorist attack more likely'
Titled No Need To Be Afraid, and published by the left-wing Jimmy Reid Foundation, it weighs the risks from terrorism, cyberwar, climate change, social unrest and attacks on Scottish sovereignty over 30 years, and concludes there is little to fear in ...www.heraldscotland.com
Ohio, North Carolina, and Nevada in The New Yorker
Pope's goal was to change the political climate in his own state, but it was also to influence the outcome of this year's Presidential election: once they came into office, the newly elected Republican members of the North Carolina General Assembly ...www.newyorker.com
Obama Or Romney? HuffPost Canada Readers Tell Us Their Pick
In fact, we prefer him seven-to-one over Romney, according to an Angus Reid survey. See a round-up of our readers' comments below and keep sharing your opinions.www.huffingtonpost.ca
Armstrong Stripped Of His Seven Tour De France Titles
Also On May 2, 2006, the Federal Climate Change Science Program, commissioned by the Bush administration in 2002, released the first of 21 assessments.missourisportsmag.com
Rep. Jeff Flake makes four: BYU will have a quartet of alumni in US Senate
"In the race's final days, the six-term congressman got support from GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who argued that Flake would serve as a roadblock to Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid." "Flake ... The Hill blogger Ben Geman noted Wednesday ...www.deseretnews.com
Obama, not 'Mr. Business' Romney, gets Bloomberg endorsement
and joy reid managing editor of thegrio.com. of who always brings 100%. >> borrowing ... what was interesting was one of the reasons mayor bloomberg cited, which was climate change . looking at the devastating impact of the storm sandy --. >> due mean ...video.msnbc.msn.com
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