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The Best Reason to Ignore ‘Climategate’: The Climate Really Is Changing

By | 11.24.09 | 12:43 pm

Yesterday, I picked apart the “Climategate” scandal, arguing that climate change skeptics’ position — that the leaked emails proved the science behind global warming was fraudulent — didn’t hold water, simply because the emails just weren’t that incriminating. Well, there’s another, far more important reason why their argument More…

Economic Crisis Sidelines Global Warming Concerns

By | 03.17.09 | 12:26 pm

As the Obama administration moves forward with its green agenda, climate change concerns have been elevated to a top priority. Yet in the midst of the deepening economic crisis, public opinion appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

A Gallup poll released last Wednesday found a More…