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Gore's book a toolbox for fixing climate crises
With global warming taking center stage in world affairs, Al Gore can't be far behind: The Nobel-Prize-winning former-vice president-turned-energy entrepreneur is releasing his plan to crack the climate conundrum.
Democrat Bill Owens won the 23rd Congressional District seat despite a strong push by Conservatives to take the post in the heavily Republican North Country area.
Orthodox patriarch meets Obama on U.S. visit
Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the "green patriarch" who leads 300 million Orthodox Christians, spoke with President Barack Obama on Tuesday about the fight against climate change.
Timeline of world's fight to tackle climate change
Here is a timeline of key dates in the climate change negotiations: June 1992: Rio World Summit - Following years of lobbying by environmentalists on the potential danger of global warming, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is set up.
World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal
Negotiators from industrial nations, including the United States , said eleventh-hour promises are possible and a global warming pact can be reached.
Al Gore, John Kitzhaber and Not-So-Ancient History
Yesterday, I wrote how former Vice President Al Gore will do a fund-raiser in Oregon for Bill Bradbury , who's running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary next year along with ex-Gov. John Kitzhaber and former Hewlett-Packard exec Steve Shields .
Betty Parker: Dems have many reasons to celebrate
Republicans had plenty to celebrate after this week's election, but here's politics for you: some of the same things that made some Republicans happy also gave Florida Democrats ---especially one statewide candidate -a big boost.
Civil unrest has role on climate - " Gore
Ahead of Copenhagen summit, former US vice-president says 'non-violent lawbreaking' is legitimate in persuading governments to cut emissions Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic ...
Surprise: ABC’s Sawyer Hits Gore on Profits From Global Warming, Plays Glenn Beck Attack
Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer conducted a surprisingly tough interview with Al Gore on Tuesday, pressing him on profiting from global warming and whether or not climate change legislation is pointless in light of pollution-spewing countries such as China.
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New California Poll Results: Meg Whitman Takes the Lead Among Republicans for California's Governor
Results from the latest Capitol Weekly/Probolsky Research California Poll were released today.
Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions
With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.
IBD misrepresented Gore on hurricane frequency
An Investor's Business Daily editorial falsely claimed that Al Gore "still claims" hurricanes "are increasing in frequency and intensity" as a result of global warming and that "[w]hat has happened in the past three years is that such claims have been thoroughly debunked as the earth has cooled, possibly for decades hence." In fact, Gore has said ...
AL GORE, climate change campaigner and former US vice-president, wants to build "a green cathedral". By that he means he wants leaders and their communities to do what the communities in the Middle Ages did when they worked for generations to erect the great cathedrals of Europe.
Morning Fix: Courting Sarah Palin
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Hardline RINOs hand victory to Democrats
NY23 - In a stunning climax to Tuesday's most closely watched political duel, Conservative Party challenger Doug Hoffman captured an astounding 45% of the vote in New York's 23rd Congressional District, emboldening traditional voters throughout the nation and undermining conventional Limbaugh-based wisdom about the lack of viability of third party ...
Gore: Reid will pass health care bill
In a teaser Tuesday for her upcoming interview with former Vice President Al Gore, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed that she had asked Gore about his 2000 running-mate, Sen.
Gore denies being a carbon billionaire, hits back at critics
Former US Vice President Al Gore has hit back at his critics who have described him as the worlds first carbon billionaire following his investments in green energy companies, and dismissed them as global-warming deniers.
Al Gore: Watch the Katie Couric CBS News interview
Katie Couric with CBS News sat down with former Vice President Al Gore, who is on the cover of the new Newsweek magazine.
Debating climate change: Rev. Al returns
Al Gore, Ozone Al, the profit-pursuing Prophet of Global Warming Doom, has released his sequel to his fact-bereft, hype-filled "An Inconvenient Truth." "Simply laying out the facts won't work," Mr.
EU urges US climate plan as GOP boycotts Senate panel vote
European leaders pressed Congress and the White House yesterday to unite on a plan to combat global warming before next month's summit in Denmark, even as a Republican boycott forced a delay of votes in a key Senate committee, demonstrating the deep partisan rift.
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