Friday, August 19, 2011

Climate change science makes for hot politics - The Washington Post
“Climate change has become a wedge issue,” said Roger Pielke Jr., a University of Colorado professor who has written extensively on the climate debate. “It’s today’s flag burning or today’s partial birth abortion issue.
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“Ultimately we go back to physics. If you burn fossil fuel you make CO2,” said Richard B. Alley, a geophysicist at Penn State University and author of “Earth: The Operator’s Manual.” “You can do this with bookkeeping. How much did we burn, how much CO2 does that make, where is it? There it is.”
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There are dissenting scientists, but they’re a small minority within the climate-science community. A 2010 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences surveyed 1,372 climate scientists and found that 97 percent to 98 percent agreed that humans were contributing to global warming.
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Climate change, says Marc Morano, the publisher and editor of the skeptical Web site Climate Depot, is “a litmus test, pure and simple, for the presidential race.”
Republicans and global warming - Achenblog - The Washington Post
Read [the above article] and then take cover!
Study Warns of Boomerang Effects in Climate Change [Hoax] Campaigns | Age of Engagement | Big Think
Climate change campaigns in the United States that focus on the risks to people in foreign countries or even other regions of the U.S. are likely to inadvertently increase polarization among Americans rather than build consensus and support for policy action.
EU Referendum: Cameron's father-in-law loots from old ladies
The Green Tosser's wealthy father-in-law, Sir Reginald Sheffield, is said to be ripping off almost £350,000 a year from a subsidised wind farm on his country estate – equivalent in value to about 1,000 wide-screen plasma TVs each and every year.

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