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Why Climate Change Skeptics & Evolution Deniers Joined Forces
2013-11-27 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: All across the country--most recently, in the state of Texas--local battles over the teaching of evolution are taking on a new complexion. More and more, it isn't just evolution under attack, it's also the teaching of climate science. The National Center for Science Education, the leading group defending the teaching of evolution across the country, has even broadened its portfolio: Now, it protects climate education too. How did these issues get wrapped up together? On its face, there isn't a...
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Typhoon Haiyan's havoc will not impress climate change deniers
2013-11-14 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Typhoon Haiyan, the monster storm that set a Hiroshima-level standard for natural devastation when it hit the Philippines on Friday, was so big that its spiral image laid over a map of the United States stretches nearly from sea to shining sea. With winds hitting sustained peaks of 195 mph and gusts up to 235 mph, it may well be the most powerful storm ever recorded. And it is probably just the herald of many monster storms to come. As NBC News Science Editor Alan Boyle reports, "Experts say Typhoon...
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Philippines' delegate calls out climate change deniers after Haiyan
2013-11-12 15:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Yesterday, the Filipino delegate to the ongoing climate summit, Naderev 'Yeb' Sao, dared climate change deniers to take a hard look at what's happening not just in the Philippines, but the whole world. Over the weekend, the Philippines was hit by what may have been the largest typhoon to ever make landfallTyphoon Haiyan. Reports are still coming in days later, but the death toll may rise to over 10,000 with whole cities simply swept away. "To anyone who continues to deny the reality that is...
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Tea party Republicans are biggest climate change deniers, new Pew poll finds
2013-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Tea party Republicans are now the only group of Americans who think the Earth is not warming, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, with just 25 percent of tea party Republicans saying global warming is happening. By contrast, 67 percent of all Americans say there is evidence climate change is underway, including 61 percent of non-tea party Republicans. Democrats and independents are more confident about global warming: 88 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents say there...
Climate change: sceptics, deniers and believers
2013-10-04 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Speaking at a conference run by the European Space Agency in Edinburgh last month, David Willetts, the UK science minister, recounted how he had recently sat next to a climate sceptic, or you could say, denier, at a dinner. He had been able to rebut this persons scepticism about the earths shrinking polar ice caps by using data from the ESAs Cryosat satellite mission, which measures the extent and thickness of polar ice from space. It was a heartening moment for those of us who have noticed...
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