That’s the share of Americans who say global warming is a “very serious” problem, according to a Pew Research Center survey in March. That compares with 32 percent who said global warming is a somewhat serious problem, 20 percent who...
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Tire tracks run across the dry bottom of the Morse Reservoir in Cicero, Indiana, on July 12, 2012.
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Undocumented Mexican immigrants walk through the Sonoran Desert after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in this file photo in Arizona.
I’m For It. Oh, Obama’s For It Too? Then I’m Against It
A Washington Post poll out today finds that 70 percent of U.S. adults support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. That is, unless they’re told that President Barack Obama backs it. Then the percentage favoring such a move drops to...
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Al Gore in Davis Guggenheim's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."
Gore Warms to Obama Climate Talk
Al Gore liked what he heard today. The former vice president wrote a short entry on his blog thanking President Barack Obama for his inaugural address mention of climate change. “Obama spoke powerfully and eloquently about the critical importance of...
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Carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired power plant.
Republican Preaches Heresy Backing a Carbon Tax
Former South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis blames his efforts to combat global warming for the intra-Republican challenge that cost him his South Carolina congressional seat in 2010. That hasn’t deterred him. Since the loss, he has traveled the nation making...
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President Barack Obama tours the Copper Mountain Solar Project, the largest photovoltaic plant operating in the country, on March 21, 2012 in Boulder City, Nevada.
Climate Treaty Hinges on Obama — Speaking Out, Former Aides Say
Written with Alex Morales One of the biggest things President Barack Obama can do to fight global warming is to talk about it. That’s the conclusion of at least seven former presidential aides and advisers serving in three administrations. Their comments...
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A petrochemical refinery located along the Houston ship channel in Houston, Texas. Photograph by F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg
Climate Change, Obama Re-Elect: Mandate for Environmental Action?
“Winning” is everything. In politics, in particular. So says the League of Conservation Voters, celebrating the outcome of Election Day with a champagne-popping ad saying “the other side may have spent millions,” but look who won. They’re talking about clean...
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This image, captured by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor, shows the Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf mid-disintegration, spewing a cloud of icebergs adrift in the Weddell Sea.
Climate Change Gone Missing — First in Quarter-Century of Debates
For the first time in almost a quarter century, global warming was missing from the presidential or vice-presidential debates this year, disappointing “climate-change people” who see it as an urgent threat to the U.S. and the world. Environmentalists aren’t pleased...
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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity members celebrate the landing of Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2012.
Washington Daybook: Heating Up
NASA’s Curiosity rover descended safely through the Martian atmosphere, a plunge labeled “7 Minutes of Terror,” and touched down early this morning at a site called Gale Crater to begin its up to two-year mission to determine whether Mars has...
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