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Compared to China & Brazil, the US is Climate Illiterate, Scientist Says

Graphic from the Washington Post on how different nations ranked the importance government should place on climate change. Note the US on the left... The following frankness doesn't happen often enough in the international climate change debate: Reuters... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Mon, Sep 28 2009

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