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Climate change: Romney quips, the Goreacle fumes
Posted by Seattle Post Intelligencer: None Given on August 31st, 2012
Seattle Post Intelligencer: Just four days after news that the summer ice pack in the Arctic has shrunk to a record low, Mitt Romney made a joke about global warming to make a point against President Obama in his acceptance speech.
"President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet . . . My promise is to help you and your family," Romney told the Republican National Convention.
He got a big ovation.
The delegates apparently did not consider impacts that a rise in ocean levels will...
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Climate: “Extreme” events will focus minds — NOAA boss
Posted by Seattle Post Intelligencer: None Given on July 6th, 2012
Seattle Post Intelligencer: "Extreme weather" and "extreme climate-related events will finally focus minds on climate change, the head of America`s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told a conference Friday in Australia.
"We are no longer at a point where we are questioning whether climate change is happening, although some continue to," Jane Lubchenco, a former Oregon State University oceanographer told the conference.
Lubchenco spoke on a day when mid-American cities were experiencing a record stretch...