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In this week s government/NGO section we have a survey from IPSOS gauging experience of climate change in the day-to-day by persons in the US, One in four Americans say climate change will make it harder to live in their area. Many people struggle to separate their sensory perceptions from matters of metaphysics, with ideology strongly coloring their worldview. We live in a world that is quantitatively different than that our parents were born into, but we don t necessarily see that:
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Included in this week s government/NGO section the World Meteorological Organization has released its annual retrospective of our previous year s climate situation, State of the Climate in 2022 (pdf):
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In this week s government/NGO reports section, another rapid assessment by World Weather Attribution, an outfit dedicated to keeping us informed of the impacts of climate change on weather events happening around us right now. WWA s new report Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada finds:
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This week we re pleased to highlight a paper by Sergei Samoilenko and John Cook, the latter name likely familiar to many as Dr. Cook is the founder of Skeptical Science. Published in Climate Policy, Samoilienko & Cook s Developing an Ad Hominem Typology for Classifying Climate Misinformation codifies, categorizes and analyzes a large sample of ad hominem arguments derived from numerous contrarian blogs and think-tanks, distilling the following key results: