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Global Warming Concerns Continue to Decline

By | 03.11.10 | 10:42 am

Americans continue to grow more skeptical of the threat of global warming, with a new Gallup poll showing that nearly half of all Americans believe the threat is exaggerated.

According to the poll, 48 percent of the population considers the seriousness of global warming to be “generally exaggerated” — More…

Inhofe Launches ‘Climategate’ Investigation

By | 11.24.09 | 5:29 pm

The office of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, just issued a press release announcing the launch of an investigation into “Climategate,” the quasi-scandal involving the release of more than a thousand hacked emails that reveal agenda-driven behavior on the More…

Is ‘Climategate’ Really the Game-Changer Skeptics Say It Is?

By | 11.23.09 | 5:33 pm

On Friday, the news broke that hackers had obtained and released thousands of email exchanges between climate scientists at England’s University of East Anglia. Climate change skeptics pounced on the leak, dubbing it “Climategate” and proclaiming that the questionable communications between the scientists proved that global warming was based More…