Thursday, August 26, 2010

Gore's Repower America suggests that Monckton is spending "big bucks" to spread misinformation about global warming

[Email from Repower America] Despite the overwhelming facts, skeptics -- like the now infamous Koch brothers, Massey coal and Lord Monckton -- will no doubt continue to spend big bucks to keep spreading misinformation about global warming.

But if we want to fight the skeptics, we'll need a growing number of people to get informed.
[The email excerpted above links to this page]: Repower America | Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Extreme weather is putting hundreds of thousands of lives and livelihoods at risk all around the world. In order to avoid the worst and most devastating impacts of the severe weather events that are consistent with climate change, we must begin to significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
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* A warming climate increases the chance that we will experience extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and intense storms, and ramps up the risk that severe weather events will cause catastrophic damage.
* The floods, fires and droughts we're seeing in places like Pakistan and Russia are consistent with the effects of global warming, including temperature increases, increased precipitation in some parts of the world, and droughts in others.
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* Unless we significantly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, we are likely to see even more extreme weather events and the consequences they bring.

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