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BRUSSELS, Belgium- As the world gets hotter by degrees, millions of poor people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease unless drastic action is taken, scientists and diplomats warned Friday in their bleakest report ever on global warming. All regions of the world will change, with the risk that nearly a third of the Earth's species will vanish if global temperatures rise just 3.6 degrees above the average temperature in the 1980s-90s, the new climate report says. Areas that now have too little rain will become drier. Yet that grim and still preventable future is a toned-down prediction, a...

A prominent climate-change expert says the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in favor of efforts to curb global warming was a classic example of judicial activism. He feels the court’s decision, which allows environmental groups to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new vehicles, is not only a threat to the auto industry but also to the future of the American economy. The Supreme Court has ruled that carbon dioxide and other « greenhouse gases » are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. In its 5-4 ruling, the high court held that the...

Are we to believe latest global warming report?By Dennis T. Avery The UN Climate Change panel is asserting — again — that humans are overheating the planet. Again, they have no evidence to support their claim — but they want the U.S. to cut its energy use by perhaps 80 percent just in case. Stabilizing greenhouse gases means no personal cars, no air-conditioning, no vacation travel. Nancy Pelosi says one-third of the Senate want this too. It’s a remarkably sweeping demand, given that the earth has warmed less than 1 degree C, over 150 years. This on a planet...

As the world gets hotter by degrees, millions of poor people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease unless drastic action is taken, scientists and diplomats warned Friday in their bleakest report ever on global warming. All regions of the world will change, with the risk that nearly a third of the Earth's species will vanish if global temperatures rise just 3.6 degrees above the average temperature in the 1980s-90s, the new climate report says. Areas that now have too little rain will become drier. Yet that grim and still preventable future is a toned-down prediction, a compromise brokered...