Religious groups active in climate debate
USA Today - 1 hour 58 minutes agoPreachers, rabbis, ministers and other faith-based figures are bringing a spiritual presence to the U.N. summit on climate change.
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Preachers, rabbis, ministers and other faith-based figures are bringing a spiritual presence to the U.N. summit on climate change.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Marsha Blackburn says the only climate change she believes in are the four seasons in her native Tennessee.
I have to admit that I'm no real fan of NBC's "Green Week." And, as much as I love the guy and all he's done, I have to further admit that I haven't paid a lot of attention to Al Gore recently. But credit where credit's due: He was hilarious with Seth Meyers on SNL's Weekend Update last week. Gore's backup plan if politicians don't start taking climate change seriously: "I'm gonna start acting ...
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As concerns about climate change and global warming increase, Copenhagen, Denmark, will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Nearly 200 nations will be represented for the 12-day meeting beginning Dec. 7, including two MU professors who are attending the conference as observers.
Climate change has been one of the most consistently discussed political topics of the past few decades.
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A series of controversial e-mails from a British university's climate center were obtained by computer hackers and posted online about two weeks ago and now House Republicans are saying they are evidence of corruption surrounding man-made climate change, The Associated Press reported.
The race for a Senate seat once held by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, John F. Kennedy and "liberal lion" Edward M.
"Your generation sucks!" The words of a San Franciscan homeless man caught me off guard. So I mustered the only reply I could think of quickly. "Sorry, man."
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A blast of cold and windy weather over the weekend toppled trees, knocked out power to some Metro area homes, and forced ski area operators to close many of their lifts. Arctic air will continue to hover over the Northwest for the coming days, according to KGW Meteorologist Rod Hill. Gusty east winds will continue Monday before beginning to calm Tuesday. Highs in Portland were ...
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Edie Falco and James Gandolfini are vying for awards at Sundance, not as co-stars but as actors in two films in the film festival's U.S. dramatic competition.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year by honoring former Vice President Al Gore.
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate has come to the desert to be an advocate for ice. Henry Pollack shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with his colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former Vice President Al Gore.
by Laurie Goering LONDON - Getting world leaders to move from rhetoric to action on climate change will require peaceful civil disobedience "on a scale that we have not seen before," says Greenpeace International's new executive director. Kumi Naidoo, a former South African anti-apartheid activist and long-time campaigner on human rights, poverty and climate issues, took the reins of Greenpeace ...