Pelosi: Climate change is a reality
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw "firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality," and she hoped the Bush administration would consider a new path on the issue.
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When President Bush mentioned the words "climate change" for the first time in a State of the Union address last year, it signaled that the climate had indeed changed for several issues that were coalescing to force a White House and a Congress of different parties to work together.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair warns that the world cannot ignore the global threat posed by climate change.
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In February, only a month after becoming speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi settled weeks of threats from Rep. John D. Dingell, her blustery Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, by putting in writing her assent to one of his big demands -- Pelosi's new Select Committee on Energy Independence a...
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The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has targeted President Bush's handling of climate change.
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WASHINGTON -- Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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Working the phones and unleashing her top aides, Pelosi is trying to turn the Murtha-Hoyer battle into a powerful statement of her authority -- and what the Democrats stand for
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on an overseas trip to embrace an audience and a topic for which President Bush has shown scant affection: "Old Europe" and global warming.
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The 110th Congress under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has been called lots of things: Historic, do-nothing, ethical, overbearing and much more, based on one's political views. But now Pelosi can add one more moniker to the list: record-setting.
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A new report from the Congressional Budget Office confirms one of the most depressing facts about climate change: The best policy is the one that's going nowhere in Washington. The CBO report concludes that a tax on carbon emissions "would be the most efficient incentive-based option for reducing emissions and could be relatively easy [...].
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In a Silicon Valley speech urging businesses to push clean technology, environmentalist and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said the United Nations report on climate change released Friday makes it a near certainty that global warming is real and needs to be addressed immediately.
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By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 12--The board tasked with meeting the state's water needs through 2060 says climate change is uncertain enough that it's not worth accounting for in its long-range plans.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today offered a glum assessment of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying that a trip to those nations last week left her discouraged, even though U.S. military personnel have performed "excellently."
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Influential senators from both parties will unveil a new global warming proposal that could form the basis of a climate change compromise that has eluded Congress.
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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US Sen. Ted Stevens says he disagrees with a new scientific study&#39;s conclusion that the burning of fossil fuels is a major factor in climate change.