Climate Policy
Satellite shelved after 2000 election to now fly
April 11, 2013 2:51 am | by Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer | News | CommentsObama proposed Wednesday spending nearly $35 million in his 2014 budget to refurbish a satellite, nicknamed GoreSat by critics, that's been sitting in storage after it was shelved in 2001, months after Bush took office. It cost about $100 million by then with NASA's internal auditors faulting its cost increases.
Obama pledges to deal with climate change
January 21, 2013 2:53 pm | by MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsEnvironmental groups hailed President Barack Obama's warning about climate change in his second inauguration speech, but said the president's words will soon be tested as he decides whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Obama pledged Monday to respond to what he called "the threat of climate change," saying the failure to do so would be a betrayal of the nation's children and future generations.
U.N. climate talks go into overtime in Qatar
December 7, 2012 11:18 am | by KARL RITTER - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsNearly 200 countries haggling over how to stop climate change—and how to pay for it—failed to reach a deal on schedule Friday, setting the stage for the wrangling to continue late into the night. The two-week U.N. conference in Doha was never meant to yield a global climate pact to curb emissions of greenhouse gases—that has been put off until 2015.
Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm
October 31, 2012 9:43 pm | by Seth Borenstein, AP Science Writer | News | CommentsFor more than a dozen years, climate scientists have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York. A 2000 federal report about global warming's effect on the United States warned specifically of that possibility. Still, they say it's unfair to blame climate change for Sandy and the destruction it left behind. We cannot yet conclusively link a single storm to global warming, and any connection is not as clear and simple as environmental activists might contend.
