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Salon
by Andrew Leonard

12/09/09

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest point in 15 million years. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the current decade is the warmest on record, and the current year is the fifth warmest ever — observations that are supported by data collected by multiple climate research centers. Evidence of global warming comes from many reinforcing points — melting polar ice, rising sea levels, changes in plant and animal ecology across the globe. Palin’s assertion that we can’t ’say with assurance that man’s activities cause weather changes’ is far more highly politicized than anything that comes out of the Climate Research Unit. It is fundamentally anti-science...

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