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[snip] ....What's going on? "The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows," concludes economist-ethicist Clive Hamilton. He and others who track what they call "denialism" find that its nature is changing in America, last redoubt of climate naysayers. It has taken on a more partisan, ideological tone. Polls find a widening Republican-Democrat gap on climate. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry even accuses climate scientists of lying for money. Global warming looms as a debatable question in yet another U.S. election campaign. From his big-windowed office overlooking the wooded campus of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades,...

NOTE: this is a real news item. I used it so that I could make a few comments about my trip to Austin and the thing wouldn't be moved to the blog section. My comments are below this SEJ blurb, so if you want to just drop down to the bottom, you can avoid wading through the crap. ========================================================================= Environmental Journalism Conference Is Packed With Katrina-Related Content Thursday September 8, 3:33 pm ET JENKINTOWN, Pa., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- "Everyone is an environmental journalist now," says SEJ Executive Director Beth Parke. This is one of those rare moments when a...