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Brendan Smith: What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs
While fewer and fewer people are willing to publicly deny the validity of global warming science, those who oppose action to protect the climate have taken up a new strategy: Denying that climate change will have a major impact on the U.S. economy. This denial is rejected by most economists who have studied climate change. In a survey of 144 top climate economists released November 4, 2009 by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, 84% agreed that "the ...
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What the CBO Isn’t Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of Jobs
Ramsay Home — ... found the following on 2009-11-06 23:40:44: Huffington Post (blog) wrote... What the CBO Isn't Telling Congress: Climate Change Threatens Million of JobsHuffington Post (blog)This denial is rejected by most economists who have studied climate change. In a survey of 144 top climate economists released November 4, ...Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate changeMcClatchy Washington Bureauall 2 news articles Read the original article at, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-smith/what-the-cbo-isnt-telling_b_347073.html Follow more real-time stories about ...

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