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U.S. Cold Snap Inspires Climate Change Denial, While Scientists See Little Room for Doubt
The real story is that people have forgotten what cold is like, says climate expert.

Anecdotally, I agree. I remember when we had a big snow a few years ago, and people were taking their kids out, their kids weren't used to that amount of snow, the adults all talked about it. But we used to get piles of snow every year. That's not just nostalgia talking, either.

I don't know about the rest of the country, but we used to get a few really cold weeks every winter. And now, we pretty much don't, it's just cool.

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Study: 49% of Black Men Are Arrested By Age 23

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Radio Disney's pro-fracking elementary school tour sparks outrage

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Rush Limbaugh says liberals invented the polar vortex

From the comments: I'm disappointed you didn't point out that Al Roker (among others) popped Limbaugh's bloviating balloon yesterday, by simply reproducing the definition of "polar vortex" that was provided in one of his college textbooks. In 1959. In some kind of little-known tome called the American Meterological Society's Glossary of Meteorology.

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