News on climate change gets worse while ardent deniers still flourish

Capital Gazette: On Aug. 20, the American Meteorological Society announced, "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth's lower atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; sea level is rising; and snow cover, mountain glaciers, and Arctic sea ice are shrinking. The dominant cause of the warming since the 1950s is human activities. This scientific finding is based on a large and persuasive body of research." On Aug. 27, the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado reported, "Arctic sea...

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