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Australia PM: Climate Change Not Causing Wildfires
Posted by Associated Press: Rod McGuirk on October 25th, 2013
Associated Press: The government staunchly rejected arguments that climate change is causing the wildfires ravaging parts of eastern Australia following a record hot start to the spring season.
"That is complete hogwash," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told News Corp. Australian newspapers in an interview published on Friday.
"They are desperate to find anything that they think might pass as ammunition for their cause," he said, referring to people who link the fires to global warming and who criticize his government's...
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Official: More in US convinced of climate change
Posted by Associated Press: Rod McGuirk on July 6th, 2012
Associated Press: Increasingly common experiences with extreme climate-related events such as the Colorado wildfires, a record warm spring and preseason hurricanes have convinced many Americans climate change is a reality, the head of a U.S. scientific agency said Friday.
Many Americans had previously seen climate change as a "nebulous concept" removed from them in time and geography, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco.
"Many people around the world are beginning to appreciate...