<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="text-align-inherit x-small normal-style headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.5rem; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: PostoniWide, "Bodoni 72", "Bodoni MT", Didot, "Didot LT STD", "Hoefler Text", Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.1em; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); word-spacing: -0.02em; text-rendering: auto; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/americans-broadly-accept-climate-science-but-many-are-fuzzy-on-the-details/2019/12/08/465a9d5e-0d6a-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html" hreflang="en" data-pb-field="headlines.basic" data-pb-url-field="canonical_url" data-pb-placeholder="Write headline here" data-nummelded="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Americans broadly accept climate science, but many are fuzzy on the details</a></div><div class=" normal-style normal blurb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 0.9375rem; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, "Helvetica Neue Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">More than a third of Americans cited “the sun getting hotter” as a major contributor to warming.</span></div><ul class="sigline normal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.125rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5rem; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 0.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: FranklinPro, FranklinITCProLight, "Franklin Gothic Medium", "Franklin Gothic", "ITC Franklin Gothic", "Apple SD Gothic Neo", "Myriad Set Pro", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica Neue Light", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><li class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; list-style: none outside none; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By <span class="vcard author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/emily-guskin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">Emily Guskin</a></span>, <span class="vcard author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/scott-clement/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">Scott Clement</a></span> and <span class="vcard author" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/joel-achenbach/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">Joel Achenbach</a></span></li></ul><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><b class="">Behind paywall </b></span></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">**************************</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class="">A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate sets out the situation well enough. <br class=""><br class="">A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying “Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” <br class=""><br class="">They end it saying,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”<br class=""><br class="">Their analysis is echoed across the scientists side of the situation. But it doesn’t take a scientist to get the drift of what’s going on. <br class=""><br class="">Liam Denning is former investment banker, former editor of one of the Wall Street Journal’s most closely read columns —Heard on the Street — and a former columnist for Financial Times. Writing about the Green New Deal for Bloomberg, Denning has come to the conclusion that, “We have built our standard of living on forms of energy that we now know pose a threat to our very existence,” and that, “this is a conversation that is long overdue — and necessarily begins with a shout, not a whisper.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</a><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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