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Archive from 1/26/10
2009 Second Warmest Year of Warmest Decade on Record
Environment News Service
The year 2009 was tied for the second warmest year in the modern record, shows a new analysis of global surface temperature from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
ANOTHER climate change blunder
Daily Mail (UK)
The world's leading climate change scientists have been caught out making unfounded claims about global warming for the second time in just over a week…
Venezuela Holds One of the Largest Oil Accumulations
U.S. Geological Survey
An estimated 513 billion barrels of technically recoverable heavy oil are in Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt…
Free Trade Helps Polar Bears, Too
National Review
The intent of this ban was to protect the polar-bear population, but now it turns out that the ban may be neither necessary nor effective. Traffic International has decided the polar-bear population is not threatened enough to warrant a trade ban…
Arctic pipeline conditionally approved
Environmental News Network
The $15.4 billion Mackenzie pipeline in Canada's Arctic should be allowed to proceed, provided 176 recommendations aimed at securing socioeconomic benefits and minimizing environmental damage are followed, regulators ruled…