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Climate change... the turning of the tide?

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/climate/us-climate-report.html?mwrsm=Facebook Surely climate change deniers must now get their heads out of the sand and face the facts? Even Trump's own administration is now siding with those shouting loud and long about human-induced climate change being a reality. See the above article which makes reference to a U.S. Federal Government report into climate change which says that, “Humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise that has created the warmest period in the history of civilization.” Smoke rose from trees burned in a wildfire in Wrightwood, Calif., last year. A report from 13 federal agencies says extreme weather events have cost the United States $1.1 trillion since 1980.

Getting skeptical about climate change skeptics

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Here’s an informative and useful website for those who are looking to arm themselves againts climate change deniers. The ending of the article provides a common sense perspective on the agenda of many of those in apparent denial: "Regarding who to believe about global warming, consider this simple analogy. If I want to know how to fix my plumbing, I will call a plumber, not a climate scientist. But if I want to know if all the hoopla about global warming is real and should we do something about it, it seems like common sense to ask a climate scientist, not the Coal Lobby, or the American Petroleum Institute,…" https://skepticalscience.com/Global-Warming-in-a-Nutshell.html