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The changing climate is causing upheaval and unrest on a large scale--rising sea levels, more severe storms and flooding, and worse droughts are already rendering populated parts of the world uninhabitable. In some places, this is occurring just around, oh, right now.

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Global warming. Climate change. Global climate change. 'Our deteriorating atmosphere.' 'Hell and high water'.

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This one went too far. I've been unwilling touch Glenn Beck with a ten-foot pole over the last couple months--I don't know, maybe in the hopes that he'd just go away. But of course, he hasn't. And it seems like his inevitable, incoming irrelevance led him to say even more unacceptable, flagrantly offensive things.

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If you're not familiar with desertification, it might be time to get acquainted.

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His words.
Charles Barker is running for governor of Massachusetts. He's well educated, having graduated from Harvard, and he's got an MBA from Northwestern.

It gets pretty tiresome having to explain that climate change doesn't mean that every region of the world will turn into the Sahara Desert next week.

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Why don't US politicians ever really talk about the ethical imperative of stopping climate change?

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Scientists Convene to Explain Case for Climate Change
As many of you know, climate science has gotten something of a bad rap in recent days--the percentage of Americans who even believe that it's caused by man seems to be in a downward plunge.

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This year, part of the shoot for Sports Illustrated's infamous swimsuit issue took place on the Maldives Islands. The promo video features the usual - bikini clad women talking about how much fun it was to roll around on the beach and how lovely the islands are.