How Do You Convince People of Global Warming in a Snowstorm?
Knickerbocker, Brad, The Christian Science Monitor
Criticisms of climate change science are piling up as public concern wanes. But evidence of global warming continues to accumulate.
The dead of winter - especially this winter with its massive snow storms in the eastern United States - is not the easiest time to make the case for global warming. Short-term weather events and long- range climate change are not the same thing, of course, but it's hard to separate them in the public's mind.
But it's even harder these days to convincingly argue that climate change is a reality.
"Gloomy unemployment numbers, public frustration with Washington, attacks on climate science, and mobilized opposition to …
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Article title: How Do You Convince People of Global Warming in a Snowstorm?.
Contributors: Knickerbocker, Brad - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: February 28, 2010.
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