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EPA Faulted in Process on Climate Finding: Report

Environmental Protection Agency circumvented a more robust review process when it produced a key scientific document underpinning its decision to regulate climate-changing pollution according to an internal government watchdog.
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Natural Gas: Can It Displace Oil in the U.S.?

The energy-thirsty United States is on the hunt for a game-changing energy source or energy usage technology -- and batteries and fuel cells are strong candidates. But their mass use could be 20 years away. Meanwhile, a conventional source may bridge that gap, or provide even more upside: natural gas.
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More Americans Feel Global Warming as Poll Debate Heats up

Republican presidential debates and a rise in the number of natural disasters are influencing more Americans to believe that the world is warming, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Thursday. The percentage of Americans who believe in global warming rose to 83 percent in 2011, from last year's 75 percent, the poll conducted Sept. 8-12 found out.
Ivar Giaever

Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever Quits Physics Group over Stand on Global Warming

Nobel Prize winning physicist Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on Tuesday, condemning the group's official stand on global warming. In 2007, APS adopted an official statement on global warming, which said that the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate.
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Al Gore Planning 'Full-on Assault' on Climate Skeptics

Climate change advocate and former Vice President, Al Gore, will undertake a 24-hour global multimedia event to convince the climate change deniers of humans' role in climate change, the link between climate change and extreme weather events and to drive action against global warming among the public.

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