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Stop bickering over climate and act: World Bank

The world should stop arguing about whether humans are causing climate change and start taking action to stop dangerous temperature rises, the president of the World Bank said on Wednesday.

Jim Yong Kim said there was 97 to 98 per cent agreement among scientists that global warming was real and caused by human activity.

"If you disagree with the science of human-caused climate change you are not disagreeing that there is anthropogenic climate change. What you are disagreeing with is science itself," Kim told a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event in London.

House GOPer: Term “climate denier” offensive because it’s like “Holocaust denier” - Salon.com

At a House Science Committee hearing on climate change, climate change non-believer Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., questioned Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on the science behind climate change, and took exception to a recent campaign by Organizing for Action against “climate deniers” in Congress.

The German Solar Disaster: 21 Billion Euros Burned | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Large German companies such as Siemens and Bosch are abandoning the solar industry. Their strategies resulted in debacles – their investments in solar power companies cost them billions.

Washout 2012 Summer ‘Nothing To Do With Arctic Ice Or Warm Oceans’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

‘Ocean temperatures and Arctic sea-ice cover were relatively unimportant factors’

New Report Warns: Britain’s Electricity Prices To Go Through The Roof | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Electricity prices in Britain may be almost double those in Germany within three years due largely to the impact of a new tax aimed at supporting renewable power generation, a report by bank Credit Suisse has claimed.