Jul 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard Excerpted from The Hill:
Record-breaking heat across the U.S. and catastrophic wildfires
in Colorado are giving environmentalists a rare opening to
regain the political offensive on climate change. While
scientists caution against chalking up specific weather events
to climate change, they say generally that heat waves, wildfires
and other extreme weather is expected with increasing frequency
and intensity in a warming world. Skeptics of climate change
often point to winter blizzards as evidence that the planet is
not warming; now those who say climate change is a fact are
using the miserable heat wave in the East Coast to make their
point. More scorching weather is forecast for Washington, D.C.
this weekend, and the environmental advocacy group 350.org plans
to mark the occasion with an ice sculpture of the word “hoax?”
in front of the Capitol in coming days. The melting sculpture
will be a jab at Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who calls global
warming a hoax, and other R