With the increasing evidence of climate change – glaciers melting, weather patterns changing, and this past decade being the warmest in recorded history – why is it that recent polls show less Americans believe climate change is already happening or will have any serious impact then they did a year ago? While more believe that the seriousness of global warming is exaggerated and is not a significant threat. What is it that has made people less concerned about global warming, and more importantly, why has the US still not implemented any policies to curb climate changing emissions?
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You may not have heard of Koch Industries, and when you think of corporate climate change deniers, you likely think of companies like Exxon. Compared to Koch’s funding of the great climate change denial machine, Exxon has spent chump change. From 2005 to 2008, Koch has spent $25 million to fund denier groups and lobby organizations opposed to clean energy and climate legislation – compared with Exxon’s measly $8.9 million (this is not to belittle the substantial leadership effort Exxon has put forth in climate denial).
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Senator James Inhofe makes a desperate attempt to derail Waxman-Markey climate and energy legislation as it moves to the Senate.
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EarthTalk discusses “skeptics” that deny current agricultural practices, land use changes, deforestation, and the sudden rise in greenhouse gasses emitted into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels has anything to do with the observed global average temperature rise and increasingly rapid changes in climate.
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