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Disturbing reports describe how precious water supplies are reacting to continued human abuse and climate change. Water resources are Drying, Drying, Disappearing…. "Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is less than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years." The disappearance of this lake will impact the livelihoods of 30 million people, cause more hunger and pose a "massive threat to peace and stability."

From just the past few days, common themes in climate change news include how deniers continue to lie while politicians bicker or offer counterproductive proposals as a new study shows literally the speed of climate change spreading globally. Meanwhile, a power company thinks it is rational to strip mine a river to obtain coal.

Obama, States Take Lead On Climate Change

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While there has been disappointing news from Copenhagen, and Congress drags out climate change legislation, President Obama has been working to address climate change reform in federal regulatory programs:

The Obama administration is quietly and methodically inserting ambitious climate-change and renewable-energy requirements into a vast array of federal regulatory programs. At the White House's direction, federal regulators are grappling with such diverse problems as how to respond to drought-induced water shortages, whether to require publicly traded corporations to disclose financial risks linked to global warming, and how to anticipate the national security problems that may well be triggered if rising sea levels devastate densely populated developing countries.

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The GOP climate deniers actually think that their "climategate" BS is a smoking gun that will derail climate change legislation in the U.S. and a global treaty in Copenhagen by decreasing public support in the belief in global warming. The deniers believe that their lies, disinformation and fallacious claims will cause public opinion polls to "drop through the floor" by early next year.

Heh, the deniers did not get the message sent by Senator Boxer when she proceeded with climate change legislation despite Inhofe's flaccid boycott. Well, tonight's top story is about how President Obama is moving past the lying deniers and the world is following his lead. Do the deniers really think the world will blink when they whine given the solid scientific evidence of global warming impacts happening now and the gravity of impacts that lie in our future if we don't take action now?

Inhofe views global warming as the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" because anthropogenic global warming is not threatening. Now, Inhofe wants an investigation of climate science after the hacking and posting online of some email correspondence among a few climate scientists.

If global warming is a hoax, then just from the news this weekend, there must be 5 countries, our military and polar bears involved in a conspiracy to perpetuate this fraud on the world.