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[Auto Post]Greed & Cowardice Killed Climate Bill
« on: July 27, 2010, 08:00:05 AM »
Greed & Cowardice Killed Climate Bill
                                       


 Paul Krugman, New York Times
Never say that the gods lack a sense of humor. I bet they're still chuckling on Olympus over the decision to make the first half of 2010 - the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died - the hottest such stretch on record.Of course, you can’t infer trends in global temperatures from one year’s experience. But ignoring that fact has long been one of the favorite tricks of climate-change deniers: they point to an unusually warm year in the past, and say “See, the planet has been cooling, not warming, since 1998!” Actually, 2005,...

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