“Climate change” on The Daily Caller

Former Vice President Al Gore showed that he isn’t giving up on sounding the alarm on global warming and its catastrophic consequences in an appearance on Current TV’s “The War Room with Jennifer Granholm” on Thursday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. (more)

The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 the federal government has spent nearly $70 billion on “climate change activities.” (more)

Bill Nye the Science Guy told the Daily Caller on Tuesday that climate change is a bigger problem than the economy or high unemployment. (more)

British scientists have calculated that the dinosaur population produced over 520 million pounds of methane gas annually, according to the BBC. Scientists suggest that the gas could have played a role in climate warming 150 million years ago. (more)

UPDATE ADDED: Bastardi responds to Washington Post (see below) (more)

NASA is swiping back at a group of nearly 50 of its former scientists and astronauts who wrote to accuse the space agency of advocating the “extreme” position that global warming is the result of man-made carbon dioxide. (more)

Nearly 50 former NASA scientists, astronauts and technologists are chastising NASA for its position on man-made climate change. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The dramatic temperature increases that thawed the last ice age followed spikes in carbon dioxide levels in the air, a new study finds. Researchers say that further strengthens the scientific case explaining current man-made global warming. (more)

On the Tuesday broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN meteorologist Alexandra Steele declared that tornadoes plowing through the Dallas-Fort Worth area were brought on by climate change. (more)

Recently the Virginia Supreme Court put the kibosh on Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s quest for information relating to former University of Virginia (UVA) climate scientist Michael Mann. Mr. Cuccinelli sought this information under Virginia’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act after questionable comments by Dr. Mann surfaced in what became known as “Climategate.” (more)

During a discussion series on Monday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., speaker and activist Kavita Ramdas argued that contraceptives should be part of a strategy to save the planet, calling lower birth rates a “common sense” part of a climate-change reduction strategy. (more)

English philosopher Thomas Malthus famously predicted more than three centuries ago that global food supplies would eventually fail to meet the needs of the world’s growing population. According to a report from the BBC, that prediction may finally come true despite the advances of modern technology. (more)

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican member of the Environment and Public Works committee, told The Daily Caller on Monday that climate change skeptics have won the debate over global warming on Capitol Hill. (more)

The Heartland Institute has released the emails global warming activist and Pacific Institute president Peter Gleick used to fraudulently obtain confidential documents from the free-market, climate-change-skeptic think tank. (more)

Peter H. Gleick, global warming activist and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, has admitted to stealing documents from The Heartland Institute. (more)

In what is being characterized as a reverse “climategate,” the free-market Heartland Institute is facing scrutiny in the wake of an alleged leak of internal documents — which were subsequently posted on climate-change advocacy websites and reported in the British press. (more)

DES MOINES — Newt Gingrich says he has killed a chapter on climate change in a post-election book of essays about the environment. But the intended author of the chapter, who supports the scientific consensus that humans contribute to climate change, says that’s news to her. (more)

A video clip that surfaced on YouTube on Tuesday shows Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney discussing energy policy on CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company” four years ago, and agreeing that U.S. energy policy should reflect, in part, an acknowledgement that the earth’s climate is changing. (more)

Among the thousands gathered in Durban, South Africa, for the just-concluded climate confab were dozens of law students and law professors from the United States. At the risk of offending fellow environmentalist law professors, Professor Karl Coplan questioned, on Pace University’s GreenLaw, the logic of working to reduce carbon emissions by incurring the very large carbon footprint associated with dozens of round-trip flights by students and professors from the United States to Durban. (more)