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August 6, 2007
President Bush Signs Bill to Expand Warrantless Wiretapping
On August 5, President Bush signed into law S.1927, a bill amending the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The law expands the ability of certain
government agencies to monitor phone calls, emails, and other communications
that are part of a foreign intelligence investigation.
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Gore: Polluters manipulate climate info By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press
Writer
Tue Aug 7, 10:28 AM ET
SINGAPORE - Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global
warming is part of a huge public misinformation campaign funded by some of the
world's largest carbon polluters, former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday.
ADVERTISEMENT
"There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10
million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the
impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community," Gore said
at a forum in Singapore. "In actuality, there is very little disagreement."
Gore likened the campaign to the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco
companies years ago on creating the appearance of scientific debate on
smoking's harmful effects.
"This is one of the strongest of scientific consensus views in the history of
science," Gore said. "We live in a world where what used to be called
propaganda now has a major role to play in shaping public opinion."
After the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the
world's top climate scientists, released a report in February that warned that
the cause of global warming is "very likely" man-made, "the deniers offered a
bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could
crank out and get published somewhere," Gore said.
"They're trying to manipulate opinion and they are taking us for fools," he
said.
He said ExxonMobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is
one of the major fuel companies involved in trying to mislead the public about
global warming.
ExxonMobil said the allegation was "completely false."
"The recycling of this type of discredited conspiracy theory diverts
attention from the real challenge at hand: how to provide the energy needed to
improve global living standards while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions,"
company spokesman Gantt Walton said.
Last year, British and American science advocacy groups accused ExxonMobil of
funding groups that undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. The
company said the scientists' reports were just attempts to smear ExxonMobil's
name and confuse the debate.
Walton said the company's financial support does not mean control over any
group's views, and that ExxonMobil believes that the risk that greenhouse gas
emissions is contributing to climate change warrants taking action to limit
them.
Gore said that with growing awareness of climate change, the world will see
an acceleration in efforts to fight the problem, and urged businesses to
recognize that reducing carbon emissions is in their long-term interest.
But while Washington should lead by example, he said developing nations also
have to play a part.
"Countries like China, just to give an example, which will next year be the
largest emitter in the world, can't be excluded just because it's technically a
developing country," Gore said. "When you look at the absolute amount of CO2
each year and going forward, China will soon surpass the U.S."
Gore said that as the Asian giant's economy expands, China faces an increased
risk from climate change and must leapfrog old, polluting technologies while
maintaining growth.
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said in June that China
overtook the United States in carbon dioxide emissions by about 7.5 percent in
2006. China was 2 percent below the U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions in 2005,
the agency said.
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Gore: Polluters manipulate climate info By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press
Writer
Tue Aug 7, 10:28 AM ET
SINGAPORE - Research aimed at disputing the scientific consensus on global
warming is part of a huge public misinformation campaign funded by some of the
world's largest carbon polluters, former Vice President Al Gore said Tuesday.
ADVERTISEMENT
"There has been an organized campaign, financed to the tune of about $10
million a year from some of the largest carbon polluters, to create the
impression that there is disagreement in the scientific community," Gore said
at a forum in Singapore. "In actuality, there is very little disagreement."
Gore likened the campaign to the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco
companies years ago on creating the appearance of scientific debate on
smoking's harmful effects.
"This is one of the strongest of scientific consensus views in the history of
science," Gore said. "We live in a world where what used to be called
propaganda now has a major role to play in shaping public opinion."
After the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the
world's top climate scientists, released a report in February that warned that
the cause of global warming is "very likely" man-made, "the deniers offered a
bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could
crank out and get published somewhere," Gore said.
"They're trying to manipulate opinion and they are taking us for fools," he
said.
He said ExxonMobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, is
one of the major fuel companies involved in trying to mislead the public about
global warming.
ExxonMobil said the allegation was "completely false."
"The recycling of this type of discredited conspiracy theory diverts
attention from the real challenge at hand: how to provide the energy needed to
improve global living standards while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions,"
company spokesman Gantt Walton said.
Last year, British and American science advocacy groups accused ExxonMobil of
funding groups that undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. The
company said the scientists' reports were just attempts to smear ExxonMobil's
name and confuse the debate.
Walton said the company's financial support does not mean control over any
group's views, and that ExxonMobil believes that the risk that greenhouse gas
emissions is contributing to climate change warrants taking action to limit
them.
Gore said that with growing awareness of climate change, the world will see
an acceleration in efforts to fight the problem, and urged businesses to
recognize that reducing carbon emissions is in their long-term interest.
But while Washington should lead by example, he said developing nations also
have to play a part.
"Countries like China, just to give an example, which will next year be the
largest emitter in the world, can't be excluded just because it's technically a
developing country," Gore said. "When you look at the absolute amount of CO2
each year and going forward, China will soon surpass the U.S."
Gore said that as the Asian giant's economy expands, China faces an increased
risk from climate change and must leapfrog old, polluting technologies while
maintaining growth.
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency said in June that China
overtook the United States in carbon dioxide emissions by about 7.5 percent in
2006. China was 2 percent below the U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions in 2005,
the agency said.
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Recommend It:
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Full Coverage: Climate Change
Off the Wires
Gore: Polluters manipulate climate info AP, 12 minutes ago Bush climate meeting
draws doubts about action Reuters, Tue Aug 7, 9:10 AM ET Feature Articles
As icecaps melt, Russia races for Arctic's resources The Christian Science
Monitor via Yahoo! News, Jul 31 Are Britain's Floods Linked to Global Warming?
LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News, Jul 24 News Stories
Warm Water Creatures May Soon Rule the Oceans LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News,
Jul 24 Small Ice Sources Pose Big Threat to Rising Seas LiveScience.com via
Yahoo! News, Jul 20 Opinion & Editorials
Climate change beyond our control at Toronto Star (reg req'd), Jun 03 The
Emperor's Green Clothes at Spiegel Online, Jun 01 World News
4 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraqi capital AP Taliban launch frontal attack on
base AP UK asks US to release 5 from Guantanamo AP Gore: Polluters manipulate
climate info AP Musharraf rejects US strikes in Pakistan AP Most Viewed - World
Scientists reveal secret of levitation AFP Government defends plan on
Aborigines AP Repeat art heist on French Riviera AP Taliban launch frontal
attack on base AP Musharraf rejects US strikes in Pakistan AP World Video
New Clues in Search for Maddy McCann ABC News - Tue Aug 7, 11:02 AM ET Floods
hit north eastern Greece BBC - 2 hours, 22 minutes ago Israel evicts Hebron
settlers BBC - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago Hope for missing UK girl CNN - Tue Aug
7, 10:35 AM ET
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Aug. 7, 2007
At Chicagos Resurrection Health Care, big bosses get big pay, many front-line
health care workers live in poverty.
Tonights the night when seven Democratic presidential candidates have their
chance to speak directly to union family voters. Some 15,000 are expected at
Chicagos Soldier Field for the AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum moderated
by MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. Hundreds of thousands more are
expected to view or listen to the live coverage that begins on MSNBC and XM
Radios channel 130 at 7 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. CDT). The forum will feature
questions to the candidates from among the more than 2,200 submitted by union
members to the AFL-CIO Working Families Vote 2008 website.
Quick Poll: Do you think government should do more to help average Americans
economically?
Got comments? Post them at: www.aflcio.org/blog.
Olbermann Set to Host Biggest Job Interview in History
Political Mobilization Tops AFL-CIO Executive Council Agenda
Report Documents Skewed Pay at Resurrection
Edwards, Obama Walk with Striking Workers in Chicago
Six Utah Coal Miners Trapped 1,500 Feet Underground
Edwards: Time for a President Who Puts People First in Trade Deals
Solidarity Center Tour Spotlights Work to Stop AIDS in Africa
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At Chicagos Resurrection Health Care, big bosses get big pay, many
front-line health care workers live in poverty.
Tonights the night when seven Democratic presidential candidates have their
chance to speak directly to union family voters. Some 15,000 are expected at
Chicagos Soldier Field for the AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum moderated
by MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. Hundreds of thousands more are
expected to view or listen to the live coverage that begins on MSNBC and XM
Radios channel 130 at 7 p.m. EDT (6 p.m. CDT). The forum will feature
questions to the candidates from among the more than 2,200 submitted by union
members to the AFL-CIO Working Families Vote 2008 website.
Quick Poll: Do you think government should do more to help average Americans
economically?
Got comments? Post them at: www.aflcio.org/blog.
Olbermann Set to Host Biggest Job Interview in History
Political Mobilization Tops AFL-CIO Executive Council Agenda
Report Documents Skewed Pay at Resurrection
Edwards, Obama Walk with Striking Workers in Chicago
Six Utah Coal Miners Trapped 1,500 Feet Underground
Edwards: Time for a President Who Puts People First in Trade Deals
Solidarity Center Tour Spotlights Work to Stop AIDS in Africa
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