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Higher Temperatures Lessen Plants' Ability to Store CO2: Scientific American →
From the article:
A new study based on NASA satellite data and meteorological data shows that the amount of carbon absorbed by Earth’s plants and trees fell in the past decade
Source: scientificamerican.com
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Scientific American: “Your Opinion of Climate Change Depends on Your Social Psychology”
from the article:
In a public lecture at the Baniff Centre for the Arts, science journalist Jay Ingram argues that climate change controversies have little to do with facts and findings. Christie Nicholson reports
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this ain't livin': Language Matters: Why I Say 'Climate Change,' Not 'Global Warming' →
There’s another reason, though, which is that language can be highly weaponized. If we use weaponized terms, even if we don’t use them in a weaponized way, we play into opposing arguments. The climate change versus global warming language is a great example. There are people who want to deny that climate change is occurring. From their perspective, the term “global warming” is like manna because it allows them to say “but how can you say there’s global ‘warming’ when the Northeast just experienced an unprecedented winter storm and it was really cold.”
Source: se-smith
