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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Happer: Climate change is being used as political hobgoblin    
      
      
   The media and hostile congressional interrogators have routinely asked   
   nominees for high positions in the new Trump administration some variant of   
   the question, “Is climate change a hoax?”   
      
      
   Nominees should answer forthrightly, “No!”   
      
      
   Climate has been changing since the Earth was formed — some 4.5 billion   
   years ago. Climate changes on every time scale — whether decades, centuries   
   or millennia.   
      
      
      
      
      
   The climate of Greenland was warm enough for farming around the year 1100   
   A.D., but by 1500, the Little Ice Age drove Norse settlers out. There is no   
   opportunity for a hoax, since climate change is so well documented by   
   historical and geophysical records.   
      
      
   But none of the climate change of the past was due to humans. The very minor   
   warming in the past few centuries is mostly from non-human causes as well.   
   http://globegazette.com/news/opinion/columns/happer-climate-chan   
   e-is-being-used-as-political-hobgoblin/article_d9d6ad5d-4a50-506   
   -b63e-5bc0a08a2bb6.html   
      
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