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Video on Treehugger re recent record weather events

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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/06 ... change.php

'McKibben has long waged an assault on American complacency towards climate change, and in the op-ed -- one of his darker, edgier treatments -- it reads as if his patience is running out. I don't blame him. Despite all the climate change-fueled weather phenomena he notes above, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, Americans are still backing politicians who make a public spectacle of denying that man-made warming is an issue at all'.

Jon :)
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This is why the Americans are in deeper trouble than anywhere else in the developed world, even though they are far richer in natural resources. They have a culture where it is considered absolutely normal to respond to unwanted scientific results with mass-denial: it doesn't matter what the scientists say, just so long as the politicians aren't taking any notice of them.

I'm not surprised he is desperate. Being a defender of climate change in the United States is a bit like being an outspoken atheist in the United States. You might just as well bang your head against a brick wall.
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Clearing out my deceased inlaw's house, I found a copy of

Soviet Biology by T D Lysenko , Moscow, 1948.

It is a masterpiece of its type, and put Russian biological science back by at least 30 years.

Reading it, I am instantly reminded of several scientific appointments made by G. W. Bush during his presidency.

(my father in law was an acknowledged scientific expert on sugar beet and oil seed rape, before falling into dementia).
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