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Last week, Al Gore made headlines when he blamed the Burmese cyclone on (what else?) global warming. "And as we're talking today ... the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,"...
NORTH BEND, Wash. - John McCain on Tuesday cast Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton as latecomers to the environmental battle, saying he would be willing to debate the issue with either of them in the general election to underscore his experience with the issue. "People will...
Sen. John McCain has called for a summer gas tax holiday to help consumers dealing with the rising cost of filling their tanks. Most observers, including this one, think that the temporary aspect of McCain’s suspension makes it nothing more than political pandering. But we’ll accept that because...
Christopher Morris / VII for TIME On the rain-swept balcony of a nature center perched high above Rattlesnake Lake in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, John McCain is describing the chasm that separates him from George W. Bush on global warming. When you boil it all down, global warming is the...
Washington (PTI): Accusing India and China of being the greatest contributors to global warming, presumptive Republican Presidential candidate John McCain has said the US will have an obligation to act if the efforts to negotiate an international pact to deal with the problem does not succeed....
The fact of the matter is if you look at the data the 'global' warming phenomena is not global - it is centered over one (obvious) region of the world). Check out this map of the global temperature variances for March 2008: Notice the clear hot spot over Asia, which ...
In his climate speech on Monday, Mr. McCain exhibited (as the press usually does) a complete lack of consciousness of the fact that evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming. Yet policy must be a matter of costs and benefits, adjusted for the uncertainties involved. Which brings...
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed May 14, 2008 9:16 AM EDT NORTH BEND, Wash. — Senator John McCain intensified his criticism of President Bush and the administration’s environmental polices on Tuesday, taking a walk in the cold, rain-drenched foothills of the Cascade Mountains and asserting that...
Senator McCain gave his speech on "climate change policy" this week at a wind power company training facility in Portland, Oregon. Senator McCain proposes a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions and a cap-and-trade system to implement the limit. So far as can be deduced from this speech,...
By Juliet Eilperin NORTH BEND, WA--Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are rejecting Republican rival John McCain's characterization of them as newcomers to the issue of global warming. McCain (Ariz.) said Tuesday that voters would trust him more than the Democrats on climate change...
By Juliet Eilperin NORTH BEND, WA--Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barrack Obama are rejecting Republican rival John McCain's characterization of them as newcomers to the issue of global warming. McCain (Ariz.) said Tuesday that voters would trust him more than the Democrats on climate change...
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