Warming House needs a home
In June, Olean Mayor Linda Witte informed Larry Sorokes that the Warming House had a few weeks to find a new location and move out.
Environment NH to release global warming report
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Environment New Hampshire is releasing a new report Wednesday it says shows how global warming cold lead to extreme weather in the future.
Bid to suspend California global-warming law gets $1 million from billionaire brothers' firm
The donation to the Proposition 23 campaign comes from a subsidiary of Kansas-based Koch Industries, which owns refineries and controls 4,000 miles of oil pipelines. The fight over a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law has escalated sharply with the Koch brothers, oil billionaires and "tea party" backers, making a million-dollar entry into the fray.
Global warming's silver lining? Northern countries will thrive and grow, researcher predicts
Move over, Sunbelt. The New North is coming through, a geographer predicts in a new book. As worldwide population increases by 40 percent over the next 40 years, sparsely populated Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and the northern United States will become formidable economic powers and migration magnets, Laurence C. Smith writes.
Subsidiary of Koch Industries donates $1M to suspend California's global warming law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have jumped on board an effort to suspend California's global warming law by making a million-dollar contribution this week.
Mozambique's Food Riots – the True Face of Global Warming
by Raj Patel It has been a summer of record temperatures – Japan had its hottest summer on record , as did South Florida and New York . Meanwhile, Pakistan and Niger are flooded and the eastern US is mopping up after hurricane Earl. None of these individual events can definitively be attributed to global warming. read more
Sceptical green urges smart billions to fight warming
(COPENHAGEN ) - Bjoern Lomborg, the bad boy of the climate debate who has rejected for years "alarmist" prophecies from environmentalists, stresses in a new book the need to invest billions to fight global warming.
Oil Billionaires Try To Block Calif. Warming Law
Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch are getting behind an effort to block California's global warming law.
Oil Billionaires Seek to Suspend Calif.’s Global Warming Law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)_ Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch, prominent backers of the Tea Party movement, have spent one million dollars on the effort to suspend California’s global warming law. They join two Texas-based companies, Valero Energy and Tesoro as contributors to the campaign for Proposition 23. California’s global warming law, known as Assembly Bill [...]
Salvation Army of Dane County to change admission policy for Warming House
The Salvation Army is changing its policy for Warming House, a last resort overnight shelter for families, to no longer accept drop ins. The shelter, located on 630 E. Washington Ave., though accessed from East Mifflin Street, is for families who can't get space at the Salvation Army's regular family shelter, which has about 90 beds.