World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenha...
 5.7K - Nov. 7, 2009; scored 154.0 We need jobs not health care
How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about the fierce urgency of now ? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education you name...
3.1K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 86.0 German leader urges U.S. to act on climate
WASHINGTON (AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by exhorting the world in a speech to Congress today to tear down the walls of today and reach a deal to combat global warming. Frequently ...
5.3K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 631.0 Congress begins climate debate;
WASHINGTON Republicans boycotted the start of committee debate today on a bill to curb greenhouse gases, protesting that the bill s costs have not been fully examined. The action put a spotlight on the difficulties Democratic leaders face in moving...
3.9K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 86.0 Coast Guard helps with sick seabirds
U.S. Coast Guard members helped rescue hundreds of crippled migratory birds on the coast Monday. The birds were ailing after being exposed to a red tide along the coasts of Oregon and Washington. A Coast Guard aircraft from Sacramento, Calif., transp...
2.1K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 345.0 Senate opens hearing on climate bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The lead author of a Senate climate bill says action to combat global warming will raise energy prices, but also create jobs and that inaction could cause even worse economic and security problems. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Am...
1.0K - Oct. 27, 2009; scored 86.0 Obama is leading us into Marxism
Obama and progressive Democrats nationwide are proudly displaying their true colors. Obsessed with national and many statewide wins in last year s election these Democrats have been emboldened to push their rabidly Marxist agenda. As president, Obama...
2.5K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 86.0 Study: Warm forests may yield less timber
GRANTS PASS (AP) A new study suggests warming temperatures predicted over the next century could boost tree growth on Northwest forests, but less so at lower elevations where most of the timber is and temperatures are already warm. Researchers from...
4.6K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 603.0 Poll: Americans' belief in global warming cools
WASHINGTON (AP) The number of Americans who believe there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming because of pollution is at its lowest point in three years. That s the conclusion of a national survey released today by the Pew Research Center f...
0.9K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 1000.0 India blocks climate deal
NEW DELHI (AP) Eight South Asian countries have agreed they can t be part of any climate change deal that sets legally binding limits on their emissions, an Indian official said today. India, Pakistan and six other nations will present a coordinate...
1.7K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 86.0 Obama didn t earn that peace prize
I wonder if I could get the Nobel Peace Prize if I put out that the seals and sea lions do not eat any salmon. After all, they gave one to Al Gore for telling the idiot believers all about global warming and how we are all going to drown when the ice...
0.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 86.0 Obama didn t earn that peace prize
I wonder if I could get the Nobel Peace Prize if I put out that the seals and sea lions do not eat any salmon. After all, they gave one to Al Gore for telling the idiot believers all about global warming and how we are all going to drown when the ice...
0.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 86.0 Column: Baseball boss crossing his fingers on weather
Global warming is going to ruin baseball s postseason unless Bud Selig and his TV partners do it first. That highly unscientific theory came to me at the World Series last October on an ice-cold night in Philadelphia, right after the commissioner t...
5.6K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 136.0 Ocean dead zones are new norm for the Pacific Coast
The ocean dead zone that formed this summer off Oregon was less severe than in years past, but it looks like the phenomenon apparently linked to global warming is here to stay. Oregon State University scientists said Thursday that winds that are a fa...
2.1K - Oct. 10, 2009; scored 154.0 Ideals over action?
WASHINGTON The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on darkened, still-asleep Washington. He won! For what? For one of America s youngest presidents, in office less than nine months and only for 12 days...
5.5K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 111.0 Obama wins peace prize
OSLO (AP) President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize today in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilater...
11.2K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 142.0 Fish and Wildlife creates climate change job
PORTLAND (AP) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northwest regional headquarters has created a new position to push the agency s new efforts to deal with climate change. The agency announced Tuesday that Carol Schuler will be the new assistant regi...
0.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 86.0 Obama: Government to set example on global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama wants the federal government to set the example when it comes to global warming. In an executive order signed Monday, Obama required all agencies to do what he wants companies operating power plants, running r...
2.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 964.0 The solar slough
Believe it or not, there is enough sunshine on the Southern Oregon Coast to justify installing a solar panel or two. That is according to Kevin Berg, program and events coordinator with Solar Oregon, a Portland-based nonprofit that espouses the benef...
5.2K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 111.0 Obama: G20 brought economy back
PITTSBURGH (AP) President Barack Obama asserted on Friday that he and other leaders of the world s 20 wealthy and developing nations took actions that brought the global economy back from the brink and saved or created millions of jobs. We leave ...
7.1K - Sep. 26, 2009; scored 230.0 | 
