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Opinion: Silver Lining in Global Warming Scandals?

(Feb. 18) -- It's been a bad few months for advocates of action to address climate change. Last week's discovery of typos and poor sourcing in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report came just a few months after a reserve of stolen e-mails from East Anglia scientists showed that a few prominent...

Cap-and-Trade Model Loses Billions to Fraud

(Dec. 10) -- As negotiators grapple in Copenhagen over a global scheme to curtail carbon emissions, Europe's own iteration was revealed as an easy mark for organized crime. The development could lend fresh ammunition to congressional critics of the Obama administration's plans to limit carbon emissions through a...

Opinion: Five Myths About Fighting Global Warming

(Dec. 7) -- In the run-up to this week's U.N. global warming conference in Copenhagen, two events occurred that seemed to undermine the momentum toward a meaningful effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Last month, the Senate leadership announced that Congress wouldn't finish work on national emissions...

Opinion: Time to Go to Plan B on Climate Change

(Nov. 17) -- Facing fourth down and long odds, President Barack Obama's decision to punt on climate by pushing off a global treaty to a future U.N. summit is the smartest strategic move he's made on the issue so far this year. He knew the Senate was preparing to fumble, failing to advance effective emissions legislation....