memeorandum: The real danger from global warming (Don Surber)

12:20 PM ET, February 2, 2007

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Global warming man-made, will continue — PARIS - Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution.

Discussion: blogs.usatoday.com, DownWithTyranny!, The Glittering Eye, All Spin Zone, Blue Crab Boulevard, Outside The Beltway, State of the Day and Democrats.com

Ian Sample / Guardian:

Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study — Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. — Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Bradford Plumer, DownWithTyranny!, Political Animal, The Carpetbagger Report, The Sundries Shack, CBS News, AMERICAblog, Outside The Beltway, CorrenteWire, Think Progress, Suburban Guerrilla, Daily Kos, ACSBlog, TAPPED, Democrats.com and Daily Pundit

Don Surber:

The real danger from global warming — The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that it is "very likely" that man has sinned and will pay for it by causing penguins to march through the Sahara or something like that, the AP reported. — Meanwhile it is 32 degrees outside, with a high of 35 expected.

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, The COLOSSUS OF RHODEY, UrbanGrounds and Instapundit.com

New York Times:
Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning to Curb Gases

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, The Agonist, NewsBusters.org, On Deadline and UN Dispatch

Richard Garner / Independent: All pupils to be given lessons in climate change

Washington Post:

Senate Democrats Split on Measure Opposing Bush — Compromise Called Weak; Report Raises Estimate of Troops Needed for 'Surge' — Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran …

Discussion: New York Times, TPMmuckraker, The Carpetbagger Report and The Caucus

Charles Hurt / Washington Times:

Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution — A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.

Discussion: Sirotablog and Reason Magazine

CNN:
Cost balloons when 'surge' support troops are counted

Discussion: Washington Post and Demagogue

Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Compromise Senate Measure Rebuffing Bush's Iraq Buildup Gathers Support

Discussion: Bradford Plumer

Jerusalem Post:

Eleven Palestinians killed in ferocious Gaza fighting — Eleven Palestinians were killed, including two children - aged eight and five - in ferocious fighting Friday between Hamas and Fatah gunmen. — Also among the dead were a Palestinian Authority intelligence commander, his bodyguard …

Discussion: Classical Values

Haaretz:
Fatah and Hamas agree in principle to revive truce

Discussion: Associated Press and On Deadline

Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Iranian agents nabbed in Gaza, 1 commits suicide

Discussion: Associated Press, alphabet city, Blue Crab Boulevard and Jay Currie

Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:

F.B.I. Agent Says Libby Denied Being Leak Source — An F.B.I. agent told a jury Thursday that I. Lewis Libby Jr. "claimed" during formal interviews she conducted that he had not disclosed to two reporters the identity of Valerie Wilson, a Central Intelligence Agency operative.

Discussion: TalkLeft, TPMmuckraker and Washington Post

David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A Failed Cover-Up — Why was the White House so nervous …

Discussion: onpointradio.org, Macsmind and Soccer Dad

David Corn: Libby Trial:Was Scooter Set Up? Did Cheney Conspire?

Clifford Krauss / New York Times:

Exxon and Shell Report Record Profits for 2006 — Oil prices have fallen, but Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell left their smaller competitors in the dust and reported record annual profits Thursday. — By making $180 million a day between them, the two largest publicly traded oil companies displayed …

John Porretto / Associated Press:
Exxon Mobil Posts Record Annual Profit

Discussion: The Sundries Shack and Gun Toting Liberal ™

Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Higher Oil Prices Help Exxon Again Set Record Profit

Discussion: The Left Coaster

coburn.senate.gov:

Dr. Coburn Votes to Protect Salaries of Low-Income Families from Flawed Wage Bill — (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding his vote against, H.R. 2, the Minimum Wage Act: — "This bill is unfair to workers and …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Senate Adds Tax Breaks To Minimum Wage Bill

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and The Democratic Daily

Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:

Who's to Blame for The Killing — This week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering — Sunni vs. Shiite, Kurd vs. Arab, jihadist vs. infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom — went bizarre. In one of the biggest battles of the war …

Discussion: A Spork in the Drawer, Soccer Dad and It Shines For All

Maya Angelou / Washington Post:

Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call — The walls have not come down, but they have been given a serious shaking. — That Jericho voice is stilled now. — Molly Ivins has been quieted. — The writer and journalist, dearly loved and admired by many, hated and feared by many …

Discussion: DownWithTyranny! and Pottersville

Daily Mail:

Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang — Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged. — The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …

Discussion: Hot Air, Blue Crab Boulevard and Jihad Watch

Associated Press:

Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring — PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction. — Phil did not see his shadow on Friday, which, according to German folklore …

Discussion: Argghhh! and Suburban Guerrilla

Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:

An Inarticulate Kickoff — What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person "articulate"? — I'll leave it to Joe Biden to explain (or figure out) why he used "clean" as one of a logorrheic string of adjectives describing his Senate colleague Barack Obama.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Heretik, Balloon Juice, Times Online, CorrenteWire, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Liberty Street

Washington Post:

Border Policy's Success Strains Resources — Tent City in Texas Among Immigrant Holding Sites Drawing Criticism — RAYMONDVILLE, Tex. — Ringed by barbed wire, a futuristic tent city rises from the Rio Grande Valley in the remote southern tip of Texas, the largest camp …

Discussion: The Corner and ImmigrationProf Blog

Morning Call:

Gore ex-campaign chief wishes on her star — 'Wait till Oscar night,' Donna Brazile says of a possible 2008 run. — By Daryl Nerl Of The Morning Call — Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are the hot early front-runners, while 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry has already bowed out.

Discussion: New York Times, The Caucus and Liberal Values