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Mike Tidwell, writing for The Nation: The presidential candidates decided not to speak about climate change, but climate change has decided to speak to them. And what is a thousand-mile-wide storm pushing eleven feet of water toward our country’s biggest population center saying just days before the election? It is this: we are all from…
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“It’s Global Warming, Stupid” All it took was a major catastrophe on the eastern seaboard, but we’re finally starting to talk about the effect of climate change on weather. Love this cover on BloombergBusinessweek, and it’s been very reassuring to see more and more recent news stories making the connection between Hurricane Sandy and Climate…
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“A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on.” Some media outlets have finally come around to admitting their mistake in the “Climategate” fiasco, but it may be too little, too late. After the computer break-in that revealed supposedly damaging emails from scientists at the East Anglia…
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This won’t stop the deniers of course, but good news nonetheless: On the much cited phrases in the leaked e-mails—”trick” and “hiding the decline”—the Committee considers that they were colloquial terms used in private e-mails and the balance of evidence is that they were not part of a systematic attempt to mislead. Insofar as the…