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Republican congressman Jeff Miller rejects climate change, asking why did dinosaurs go extinct?
2014-06-11 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: MAN made climate change is not real, just ask the dinosaurs. A US congressman from Florida has challenged the idea of man made climate change by asking the question: "why did the dinosaurs go extinct?". During a MSNBC interview, Republican Jeff Miller said climate change had been going on for thousands of years. "It changes. It gets hot, it gets cold. It`s done it for as long as we have measured the climate," Mr Miller said on Monday. But when questioned about whether current climate...
Florida Congressman: If Humans Cause Climate Change, Why Did The Dinosaurs Go Extinct?
2014-06-09 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: A Republican lawmaker from Florida dipped his feet deeper into climate denial on Monday, saying it is "foolish" to believe humans can cause global warming, and justifying his logic with a strange comparison to dinosaur extinction. MSNBC host Richard Lui asked Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) if he was concerned about the fact that voters tend to believe scientists on the issue of climate change. Miller replied by saying scientists were not in agreement, and that the climate has been naturally changing...
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KATU.com: Streetcars, nearly extinct, are making a comeback
2013-11-13 01:08:46| PortlandOnline
November 12, 2013 | Associated Press, Jason Keyser
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Indonesia: He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct
2013-04-30 09:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Ask most folks who came up with the theory of evolution, and they'll tell you it was Charles Darwin. In fact, Alfred Russel Wallace, another British naturalist, was a co-discoverer of the theory - though Darwin has gotten most of the credit. Wallace died 100 years ago this year. Wallace developed some of his most important ideas about natural selection during an eight-year expedition to what was then the Dutch East Indies - modern-day Indonesia - to observe wildlife and collect specimens. Few...
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20 Pounds? Not Too Bad, for an Extinct Fish
2013-04-24 02:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For most fishermen a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a victory. That Lahontan cutthroat trout he caught last year, a remnant of a strain that is possibly the largest native trout in North America, is the first confirmed catch of a fish that was once believed to have gone extinct. The fish has been the focus of an intense and improbable federal and tribal effort to restore it to its home waters. I was in awe,...