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RDF: Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart - 0 views

  • Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart by James Lawrence Powell posted on November 25, 2012 08:45PM GMT Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of science is the peer-reviewed literature. If there is disagreement among scientists, based not on opinion but on hard evidence, it will be found in the peer-reviewed literature.
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The Sounds Of Silence: Team Obama Launched The Inane Strategy Of Downplaying Climate Ch... - 0 views

  • Last week the UK Guardian published a bombshell piece on the origins of the fatefully dreadful decision to try to sell the climate bill without talking about the climate The story describes a March 2009 meeting at the Old Executive Office Building, the White House informed the leading environmental groups that it had decided climate change was not a winning message. The blunt headline: Revealed: the day Obama chose a strategy of silence on climate change
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Effects of climate change increase risk of storms' impacts - Metro - The Boston Globe - 0 views

  • For example, rising sea levels in the Northeast, which are increasing three to four times faster than global rates, according to federal statistics, will bring more flooding and damaging storm surges that ride atop high seas. Warmer air can hold more water vapor, meaning storms could drop more precipitation. New England has seen more erratic precipitation in recent years with extreme rain and snowfall events increasing by 85 percent since 1948, according to a climate report issued last week by US Representative Ed Markey, called “The New New England.”
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Hurricane Sandy: Is Climate Change to Blame? (with images, tweets) · insidecl... - 0 views

  • Hurricane Sandy: Is Climate Change to Blame?Some of the nation's most outspoken scientists on human-caused climate change were active on twitter explaining how global warming influenced hurricane Sandy. Well-known skeptics were tweeting as well, some denying the hurricane-climate link.
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US presidential debates' great unmentionable: climate change | Environment | guardian.c... - 0 views

  • By Monday night, the debate about "climate silence" was in full voice. Al Gore weighed in, tweeting during the course of the debate: "Where is global warming in this debate? Climate change is an urgent foreign policy issue."The Green party's presidential candidate, Jill Stein, who went so far as to label Obama a climate change denier in an interview with the Guardian for his failure to discuss the issue on the campaign trail.Other commentators argued allowances should be made for Obama's failure to discuss climate on the campaign trail, and his middling support for environmental concerns while in the White House.Since the rise of the Tea Party conservatives in 2010, energy and climate change have emerged as among the most contentious issues dividing Republicans and Democrats.
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