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sonofghandi
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10 May 2014, 6:57 pm

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/9/wyoming-global-warming.html

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Gov. Matt Mead has called federal efforts to curtail greenhouse emissions a "war on coal" and has said that he's skeptical about man-made climate change.


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. . . oil and gas industry giants Exxon Mobile and Chevron support the standards.


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10 May 2014, 7:15 pm

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"war on coal"


:lol: This looks like something out of The Onion.



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10 May 2014, 7:17 pm

I admit, this whole thing is quite funny. Silly Americans. :P


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10 May 2014, 9:57 pm

quoted: "... national education groups after officials objected to the teaching of man-made global warming as a fact. "

It is called 'climate change' now.

Is it a 'fact' ?


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