<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Global Warming</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/science/climatechange?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><description>Global Warming</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Thundery Earth Day Keeps Bush Out of Park]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8765-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 22  --  President Bush was to have celebrated Earth Day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday, pitching in on a trail restoration project and giving a speech touting his environmental record with the park's majestic peaks serving as a compelling backdrop. But Mother Nature did not cooperate.]]></description><author> Michael A. Fletcher</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Seek Regulation Of Greenhouse Gases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40500-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40500-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A coalition of states and cities asked a federal court to make the EPA reconsider its decision not to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases as air pollutants.]]></description><author> John Heilprin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Automakers Agree to Cut Emissions In Canada]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28515-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28515-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Major automakers signed an agreement yesterday with the government of Canada to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks, a move hailed by environmentalists as a breakthrough that could force the industry to sell cleaner, more fuel-efficient vehicles in the United States as well.]]></description><author> Greg Schneider</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Unlikely Meeting of the Minds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14232-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14232-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Groups of conservative Republicans have joined with environmental advocates such as the Natural Resources Defense Council to lobby Congress to spend $12B to cut oil use in half by 2025.]]></description><author> Greg Schneider</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61368-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61368-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Report Says Law Provokes<br>Schools to Help Needy Students]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45040-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45040-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    Global Warming Inevitable, Data Show <br>Even if people stopped pumping out carbon dioxide and other pollutants tomorrow, global warming would get worse, two teams of researchers reported yesterday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coloring Outside the Lines]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22139-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22139-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As the Environmental Film Festival unspools over the next 10 days, green activists won't have any trouble getting their fix of movies that address endangered species, the evils of factory farming and that all-time passion-stoker, global warming.]]></description><author> Jonathan Padget</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Names EPA Chief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6621-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6621-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush Friday appointed a career scientist, Stephen L. Johnson, as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, taking environmental groups by surprise.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists Looking at Ways to Trap Gases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42365-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42365-2005Feb21.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If an ongoing experiment at the Goldwater Materials Science Laboratory at Arizona State University succeeds, the unassuming basement facility near Phoenix could offer a partial way out of the nation's greenhouse-gas problems.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science Notebook]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38567-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38567-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>A sampling of noteworthy presentations yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, taking place in Washington this weekend.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyoto Treaty Takes Effect Wednesday]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27318-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27318-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The agreement to reduce global warming goes into effect Wednesday after seven years of wrangling, harangues, and dramatic entrances and exits by Russia and the United States, but the impact may be largely symbolic.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINDINGS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15656-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15656-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Meningitis Vaccination Urged for Students <br>All college freshmen who live in dorms should be vaccinated for meningitis, a government panel recommended yesterday, reversing policy of the past. The panel is also advising doctors to give the shot to all 11- and 12-year-old children and recommending that it be provided to at least 4 million children eligible under the federal children's vaccine program.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arizona Points to Global Warming as Culprit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1493-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1493-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Higher temperatures, rapid precipitation shifts, and accelerated blooming and breeding patterns are changing the Southwest.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['God's Mandate': Putting  The White House on Notice]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1499-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1499-2005Feb5.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Frustration with the Bush administration's environmental polices is bubbling up from mainstream churches and synagogues, as reflected in a statement signed recently by more than 1,000 clergy and congregational leaders in about 35 states.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair Urges Action Against Global Warming]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39701-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39701-2005Jan26.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The world's most powerful nations must act now to curb global warming, British Prime Minister Tony Blair told world leaders on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurricane Scientist Leaves U.N. Team]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29397-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29397-2005Jan22.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal hurricane research scientist resigned from a United Nations-sponsored climate assessment team, saying the group's leader had politicized the process.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extinction Tied to Global Warming, Study Shows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24732-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24732-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Research released Thursday offers new evidence that global warming caused by massive and prolonged volcanic activity may have been the chief culprit in the biggest mass extinction in Earth's geologic history.]]></description><author> Guy Gugliotta</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting Some Heat on Bush]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19162-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19162-2005Jan18.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In his worn navy windbreaker, 63-year-old climatologist James E. Hansen looks more like the Iowa farm native that he is than a rebel -- but he's both.]]></description><author> Juliet Eilperin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[States Flex Prosecutorial Muscle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2107-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2107-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[State regulators and attorneys general are bringing legal action and launching investigations into areas where they say federal regulators have fallen down on the job.]]></description><author> Brooke A. Masters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding a Catastrophe Of Human Error]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48619-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48619-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_nation/specials/science/climatechange</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:31:27 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   We live on a planet of extremes and cataclysm. A year to the day before the Dec. 26 tsunami, whose death toll has surpassed  150,000, the Bam earthquake in Iran killed 46,000 people, injured 20,000 and left 60,000 homeless. In India the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 resulted in more than 20,000 deaths and 167,000 injuries. In 1998 Central America lost 10,000 lives to Hurricane Mitch. The 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China killed 250,000.]]></description><author> William H. Hooke</author></item></channel></rss>