[PCA] NEWS: 2 articles about climate change & the blizzards in the East

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100210/us_time/08599196229400

Snowstorm: East Coast Blizzard Tied to Climate Change
Time.com
By Bryan Walsh -- Wed Feb 10, 3:50 pm ET

As the blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to 
dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they may stop 
to wonder two things: Why haven't we bothered to invest in a snow blower, 
and what happened to climate change? After all, it stands to reason that 
if the world is getting warmer - and the past decade was the hottest on 
record - major snowstorms should become a thing of the past, like 
PalmPilots and majority rule in the Senate. Certainly that's what the 
Virginia state Republican Party thinks: the GOP aired an ad last weekend 
that attacked two Democratic members of Congress for supporting the 2009 
carbon-cap-and-trade bill, using the recent storms to cast doubt on global 
warming.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100212/sc_afp/usweatherstormunclimatewarming

US climate skeptics seize on blizzard
by Shaun Tandon -- Thu Feb 11, 10:06 pm ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) -- US opponents of climate change action are seizing on a 
record snowfall in Washington in hopes of killing legislation to curb 
carbon emissions, which already faced uncertain political prospects.

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