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"Study: Watching Fox News Makes You Distrust Climate Scientists"

"In the past several years, a number of polls have documented the huge gap between liberals and conservatives when it comes to their acceptance of the science of climate change. Naturally, then, researchers have increasingly turned their attention to trying to explain this dramatic divide over what is factually true. And it wasn't long before they homed in on the role of conservative media in particular -- thus, a number of studies show that watching Fox News increases your risk of holding incorrect beliefs about the science of climate change."

Source: Mother Jones, 08/07/2013

"‘Ag-Gag’ Reflex"

"State legislatures are pushing to stifle farm investigations, and some news associations are fighting back."

Source: CJR, 08/07/2013

2nd State Dept. IG Probe Could Jeopardize Obama's KXL Timeline

"An independent government inquiry into the State Department's choice of a private contractor to steer the latest Keystone XL environmental review could remain open through this fall, raising the specter of a further delay in a final decision on the contentious pipeline project that President Obama vowed in March to rule on before 2014."

Source: EnergyWire, 08/07/2013

NOAA 2012 Climate Change Report: Rising Seas, Snow Melt, More Warming

"WASHINGTON -- A new massive federal study says the world in 2012 sweltered with continued signs of climate change. Rising sea levels, snow melt, heat buildup in the oceans, and melting Arctic sea ice and Greenland ice sheets, all broke or nearly broke records, but temperatures only sneaked into the top 10."

Source: AP, 08/07/2013

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