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Is Climate Change Causing Frequent Blizzards?
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on January 24th, 2016
Inquisitr: Travel bans have lifted, snowplows are running, and residents on the East Coast are beginning to dig themselves out from under the worst winter storm in years.
As the sky clears, residents are once again questioning why the number of blizzards is increasing and if it has something to do with climate change.
The answer: yes and no.
For anyone denying #climatechange because of #blizzard2016. pic.twitter.com/cnOCOqLlR2
-- T.J. Raphael (@TJRaphael) January 23, 2016
The number of blizzards...
Racism Captured At A Fracking Protest
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on January 2nd, 2016
Inquisitr: MMC Land Management employee John Pisone took it upon himself to confront anti-fracking protesters at the fracking site in Mars, Pennsylvania, where he was working. His dismay towards the protesters turned into flat-out racism as he hurled harsh words towards the black photo journalist, Tom Jefferson.
Jefferson captured all of the racist landscaper`s words on a video that has now gone viral during the fracking protest.
Pisone insulted all of the protesters in general. According to him, they`re...
Did Climate Change Create The Syrian Refugee Crisis?
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on September 15th, 2015
Inquisitr: Most of the nightmare scenarios attributed to global climate change have failed to materialize just yet, but recent studies have found that climate change may be to blame for the Syrian refugee crisis.
When Syrian refugees leave their homes for neighboring countries like Turkey and Lebanon, and press on even further to destinations in the European Union and elsewhere, they are fleeing the violence and uncertainty of civil war, not climate change. But that civil war, fought between the government...
Water Wars: Repub Only Ones Who Don’t Link Drought And Climate Change
Posted by Inquisitr: None Given on August 2nd, 2015
Inquisitr: The historic California megadrought has now dragged on into its fourth year and a new study shows Republicans are the only ones who think it has nothing to do with climate change.
Two-thirds of Californians think global warming helped caused the drought, but 62 percent of Republicans disagree with that, according to a new study by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute.
In fact, a third of Republicans, 31 percent, said the world would never see any effects from climate change.
"The threat...