Tea Party's Climate Change Denial
Tea Party supporters deny the existence of climate change and oppose any attempt to regulate emissions. Despite their distrust of science and resistance to civil debate, the Tea Party's crusade is gaining momentum. Republican organizers are hoping to channel Tea Party anger into electing a conservative Congress in 2010 and a conservative president in 2012.

Tea Party supporter and global warming skeptic Steve Milloy called modern environmentalism, "tatalitarianism." Milloy and other Tea Party failthfuls are not only critical of green Democrats, they criticize Republicans who work with Democrats on environmental issues.

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Late last month, a narrowly-divided Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people under the Constitution and should be able to spend unlimited amounts of money to sway voters to their way of thinking.

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A recent Supreme Court ruling removes restrictions for federal campaign financing from special interest groups and gives them the same rights to freedom of speech as citizens. This does not bode well for pending climate change legislation. With wild claims about exorbitant rates and sky high taxes, the fear mongering on climate change legislation has already begun. The Supreme Court has helped corporate America embolden its influence on the levers of power and made it more difficult for lawmakers to challenge the entrenched interests of the old economy.

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On Friday January 29, 2010, less than 2 days after his State of the Union address, President Obama made a pledge to reduce the federal government's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 28 percent over the next decade. This move is consistent with Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustainability, which called for reducing and reporting GHGs. As nations were preparing to communicate their emissions reductions strategies to the UNFCCC ahead of the January 31 deadline, President Obama was leading by example.

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Copenhagen Accord: Global Emissions Cuts

In compliance with the Copenhagen Accord's January 31 deadline, most of the world's wealthiest nations and some developing countries have joined the US and pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

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Copenhagen Accord: Canada to Reduce its GHG Emissions by 17%

It is no coincidence that one day after the United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gases by 17%, the Canadian government announced that it would reduce its emissions by the same amount.
Starting in 2011 Canada will reduce emissions associated with, vehicles, air and sea traffic as well as the oilsands.

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Copenhagen Accord: US Pledges to Reduce GHGs by 17%

As stipulated in last December's Copenhagen Accord, January 31, 2010 was the deadline for wealthier nations to submit their emissions reductions targets. Obama Pledged to reduce US greenhouse gases (GHGs) by approximately 17 percent below 2005 levels over the next 10 years.

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