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   <updated>2009-07-03T19:11:31Z</updated>
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   <title>Five Overhyped Climate Studies</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1144</id>
   
   <published>2009-07-03T18:54:11Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-03T19:11:31Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate modeler, who is also well known to those who frequent Realclimate.org, discusses 5 climate studies that do not live up to their hype in an article from Popular Mechanics. A majority of the reasons why...</summary>
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      Gavin Schmidt, a NASA climate modeler, who is also well known to those who frequent Realclimate.org, discusses 5 climate studies that do not live up to their hype in an article from Popular Mechanics. A majority of the reasons why...






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   <title>ITCZ Creeping Northward over the Past 300 Years</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1143</id>
   
   <published>2009-07-02T13:11:23Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-02T14:17:48Z</updated>
   
   <summary>New research from the University of Washington indicates that the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which is a persistent band of showers and heavy thunderstorms that produces heavy rainfall near the equator, has been creeping northward for more than 300 years...</summary>
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      New research from the University of Washington indicates that the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), which is a persistent band of showers and heavy thunderstorms that produces heavy rainfall near the equator, has been creeping northward for more than 300 years...






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   <title>The State of Climate Science from Four Experts</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1142</id>
   
   <published>2009-07-01T13:55:01Z</published>
   <updated>2009-07-01T14:12:37Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Discover Magazine has an interesting and informative piece on the state of climate science and the meaning of climate change from their June issue. This full interview was made available online just yesterday. In the interview, Discover Magazine poses a...</summary>
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      Discover Magazine has an interesting and informative piece on the state of climate science and the meaning of climate change from their June issue. This full interview was made available online just yesterday. In the interview, Discover Magazine poses a...






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   <title>Combined Particulate Pollution and Soot Impacts</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1141</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-30T13:54:52Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-30T14:33:37Z</updated>
   
   <summary>A new study has determined that particulate pollution, when combined with airborne soot, actually enhances warming, instead of having a cooling effect. Particulate pollution in itself, is thought to be holding climate change in check, as it causes sunlight to...</summary>
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      A new study has determined that particulate pollution, when combined with airborne soot, actually enhances warming, instead of having a cooling effect. Particulate pollution in itself, is thought to be holding climate change in check, as it causes sunlight to...






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   <title>Rapid Retreat of Ice Sheet Can occur Again</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1140</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-29T06:18:14Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-29T03:50:38Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Paleoclimatologists from the University of Buffalo in New York have provided evidence that a prehistoric glacier in the Canadian Arctic rapidly retreated in just a few hundred years. A high resolution satellite image of the southern Greenland ice sheet from...</summary>
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      Paleoclimatologists from the University of Buffalo in New York have provided evidence that a prehistoric glacier in the Canadian Arctic rapidly retreated in just a few hundred years. A high resolution satellite image of the southern Greenland ice sheet from...






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   <title>Is the Temperature Record in the U.S. Reliable?</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1139</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-26T15:28:58Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-26T15:57:13Z</updated>
   
   <summary>According to the NOAA talking points memo dated June 9th, the answer is yes. The National Weather Service (NWS) has station siting criteria, but they are not always followed. NOAA states that the only published, peer-reviewed study on this topic...</summary>
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      According to the NOAA talking points memo dated June 9th, the answer is yes. The National Weather Service (NWS) has station siting criteria, but they are not always followed. NOAA states that the only published, peer-reviewed study on this topic...






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   <title>Impacts of Man-Made CO2 Emissions are Benign, NIPCC</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1138</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-25T13:23:54Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-25T14:02:36Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Many of the statements in this posting are excerpts from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change&apos;s (NIPCC) 2008 summary for policymakers, which is titled &apos;Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate&apos;. According to the NIPCC, there is clear and...</summary>
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      Many of the statements in this posting are excerpts from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change&apos;s (NIPCC) 2008 summary for policymakers, which is titled &apos;Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate&apos;. According to the NIPCC, there is clear and...






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   <title>NASA GISS Head Arrested at Coal Protest</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1137</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-24T15:55:42Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-24T16:27:17Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Dr. James Hansen, who is the director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was arrested, along with 30 others on Tuesday on charges of obstructing officers and impeding traffic during a protest at a large mountaintop mining company...</summary>
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      Dr. James Hansen, who is the director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was arrested, along with 30 others on Tuesday on charges of obstructing officers and impeding traffic during a protest at a large mountaintop mining company...






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   <title>How Much will that Climate Change Bill Cost Your Family?</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1136</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-23T13:36:42Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-23T14:09:45Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Henry Waxman (D-CA) Edward Markey (D-MA) The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is a non-partisan arm of Congress says that the climate change Cap-and-Trade Bill, which is sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) would end up costing...</summary>
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      Henry Waxman (D-CA) Edward Markey (D-MA) The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which is a non-partisan arm of Congress says that the climate change Cap-and-Trade Bill, which is sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) would end up costing...






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   <title>Global Temperatures So Far this Year</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1134</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-22T15:00:38Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-22T14:40:40Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Curious how temperatures globally have been running since the beginning of the year? The National Climatic Data Center has released global temperature anomaly data for the January 2009 to May 2009 period. We can also compare their results to the...</summary>
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      Curious how temperatures globally have been running since the beginning of the year? The National Climatic Data Center has released global temperature anomaly data for the January 2009 to May 2009 period. We can also compare their results to the...






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   <title>Sunspot Activity Update</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1135</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-21T20:04:25Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-21T20:03:56Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Blog posted by AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Mark Paquette Hello again. I hope you have are having or had a great weekend... depending on when you read this obviously. I figured I would update a story that both Brett and I have...</summary>
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      Blog posted by AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Mark Paquette Hello again. I hope you have are having or had a great weekend... depending on when you read this obviously. I figured I would update a story that both Brett and I have...






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<entry>
   <title>CO2 Levels are Highest in 2.1 Million Years</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1133</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-19T14:11:41Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-19T15:22:19Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Bärbel Hönisch, a geochemist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and her colleagues have assembled the most detailed look at atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels over the last 2.1 million years by analyzing shells of single-celled plankton buried under the Atlantic Ocean....</summary>
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      Bärbel Hönisch, a geochemist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and her colleagues have assembled the most detailed look at atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels over the last 2.1 million years by analyzing shells of single-celled plankton buried under the Atlantic Ocean....






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   <title>Impacts in the United States</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1132</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-18T13:45:31Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-18T14:29:30Z</updated>
   
   <summary>The White House on Tuesday released the first comprehensive assessment on climate change impacts in the United States. The report, which is titled &apos;Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.&apos; was put together by the U.S. Global Change Research Program....</summary>
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      The White House on Tuesday released the first comprehensive assessment on climate change impacts in the United States. The report, which is titled &apos;Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.&apos; was put together by the U.S. Global Change Research Program....






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<entry>
   <title>A Follow Up on that CO2 and Temperature Study</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1131</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-17T13:23:05Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-17T14:01:08Z</updated>
   
   <summary>My original post about this study from last week........ A professor from Concordia University&apos;s Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, along with colleagues from Victoria and the U.K. have found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and global...</summary>
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      My original post about this study from last week........ A professor from Concordia University&apos;s Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, along with colleagues from Victoria and the U.K. have found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and global...






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<entry>
   <title>Climate Model Reliability Questioned</title>
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   <id>tag:global-warming.accuweather.com,2009://1.1128</id>
   
   <published>2009-06-16T14:25:42Z</published>
   <updated>2009-06-16T14:31:09Z</updated>
   
   <summary>One of the chapters in the 2009 report from the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate change) focused on Climate Models. The report stated that climate models are not reliable. According to the report, the NIPCC states that climate models...</summary>
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      One of the chapters in the 2009 report from the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate change) focused on Climate Models. The report stated that climate models are not reliable. According to the report, the NIPCC states that climate models...






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