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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Public perception, global warming, and nuclear power: playing the trump card

Public perception, global warming, and nuclear power: playing the trump card

November 18, 2013
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Did the recent weather catastrophe in the Philippines have anything to do with global warming? Great Britain’s prime minister thinks so. I won’t get into the scientific debate over whether it did. I will just point out that people think it did. And that less than two months ago the IPCC warned that “[h]uman influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes.”

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