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"  Here&amp;#039;s some legitimate Earth Day news, straight from NASA: 1. Contrary to popular belief, global warming has not stopped nor has the rate of warming even slowed down in the past decade.  2. A new global temperature record (for the period of instrumental measurements) will be set within the next few months.  This comes from the latest &amp;quot;global surface temperature analysis&amp;quot; (PDF here) from NASA&amp;#039;s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one the most important sources of real climate science. I got the summary in an e-mail from Dr. James Hansen, the NASA scientist who first told Congress that global warming was real back in the 1980s. In the same e-mail, Hansen talked about the global warming contrarians I profiled in Esquire last month. &amp;quot;Somehow we have to do a better job of communicating,&amp;quot; he wrote me. &amp;quot;The tricks being used by people supporting denial and business-as-usual are recognizably dirty, yet effective.&amp;quot; Among those tricks: &amp;quot;The material that we supplied to some recent FOIA requests was promptly posted on a website, and within minutes after that posting someone found that one of the e-mails included information about how to access Makiko Sato&amp;#039;s password-protected research directory on the GISS website (we had not noticed this due to the volume of material). Within 90 minutes, and before anyone else who saw this password information thought it worth reporting to GISS staff, most if not all of the material in Makiko&amp;#039;s directory was purloined by someone using automated &amp;#039;web harvesting&amp;#039; software and re-posted elsewhere on the web...&amp;quot; In other words, the contrarians were using FOIA requests to harass scientists in a search for another &amp;quot;Climategate.&amp;quot; This certainly rings true with my experience \u2014 the contrarians I met at the Copenhagen climate talks were 100 percent ideological, all free-market purists on a jihad against &amp;quot;collectivism.&amp;quot; Climate was just another battleground. 3. Unfortunately, the delay in public understanding of the situation, in combination with the way the climate system works (inertia, tipping points) could be very detrimental for our children and grandchildren. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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