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Top U.S. Science Official: ‘Climate Change Is Underway…It’s Having Consequences In Real Time’
Top U.S. Science Official: ‘Climate Change Is Underway…It’s Having Consequences In Real Time’http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/07/06/511724/top-us-science-official-climate-change-is-underwayits-having-consequences-in-real-time/
One of America’s top science officials says the current onslaught of extreme weather in the U.S. is raising awareness of climate change among Americans.
Speaking at a university forum today in Australia, Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Americans are increasingly connecting the dots between climate change and the severe heat, drought, wildfires, and storms hitting the country. The Associated Press reported on her comments, made at the University of Canberra:
“Many people around the world are beginning to appreciate that climate change is under way, that it’s having consequences that are playing out in real time and, in the United States at least, we are seeing more and more examples of extreme weather and extreme climate-related events,” Lubchenco told a university forum in the Australian capital of Canberra.
“People’s perceptions in the United States at least are in many cases beginning to change as they experience something first-hand that they at least think is directly attributable to climate change,” she said.
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regarding the really disgusting ways the climate change deniers have worked to undermine any government action in this area.
It talks about one of the big players among the lobbyists who used to work for big tobacco but when that work dried up came over to big oil to help spread lies about its affects on the climate. Such a prince of man. 
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-06/battle-over-climate-change
