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What the Battle Over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Tells Us about Public Opinion and Climate Change Legislation

What the Battle Over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Tells Us about Public Opinion and Climate Change Legislation

by Levi Novey on September 17th, 2009

A study about attitudes toward drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and persuasion sheds some light on how conservationists might influence public opinion in favor of climate change legislation.

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Smoke from California Fires May Slow Arctic Melting

by Timothy B. Hurst on July 25th, 2008

The Arctic may get some temporary relief from global warming if the annual North American wildfire season intensifies, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado and NOAA. The study, which appears this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research, argues that smoke transported to the Arctic from northern forest fires [...]

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