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Boil Them In Big Oil? Let’s Start With You! : Conservative Politics Today

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The Guardian UK is reporting that James Hansen, self-professed leading climate scientists is going to speak before congress. In this speech he will "call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer."

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Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

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    Testimony to US Congress will also criticize lobbyists. "Revolutionary" policies needed to tackle crisis.

    New York - James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

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Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age

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Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago.

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To Stop Global Warming and Hunger, Let’s Turn to Organic Farming

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Timothy J. LaSalle is CEO of the Rodale Institute, a 60-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to researching sustainable farming and educating farmers and consumers about the food we eat. He will be contributing posts to TreeHugger as a guest blogger on an ongoing basis. There is no question that a perfect storm of factors – from rising oil prices to the growing climatic impact of global warming – are creating a silent tsunami of global hunger. There is also no question that the world’s most vulnerable disproportionately live in Africa where food aid has failed to keep ah...

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Carbon world of 2028

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How will global warming shape our world 20 years from now? Get ready for massive changes that will reshape business and society.

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GM's Bob Lutz: global warming "still a crock"

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General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has come out swinging after his put down of global warming in a session with journalists. At that session, Lutz said global warming was a "total crock of sh*t".

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Gobal warming insurance premiums

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Munich Re, the world's second-biggest reinsurance group, has announced that the cost of natural disasters had spiked this year with the most severe events in terms of insured losses occurring in Europe.

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