Four congressmen showed up to a "field hearing" at the waterfront Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater to learn how the bay is uniquely affected by the planet's warming air and water.
U.S. Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Baltimore County, said sometimes taking action on climate change can be difficult to sell to people who consider the effects as abstract and difficult to see.
"There's nothing abstract or theoretical about climate change and...
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repent sinners - 2009-06-25 10:35:07
Global warming is a message from God for sinners to repent.
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Climate Change - 2009-06-24 12:34:10
Don't let anything like the facts get in the way. The planet is getting cooler and mankind cannot control the temperature as much as we would like to think. The entire global warming scam makes Bernie Madoff look like a choir boy.
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