South Fried Science: Few scientific fields generate as much controversy as climate change. Misunderstandings, misrepresentations, and outright lies are common. While environmentalists rightly criticize anti-global warming activists for not being truthful, neither side is innocent. Presented here are five common misrepresentations from both sides and the truth about those issues. Misrepresentations from Climate Change Deniers:

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The Hindu: Believe it or not, the humble earthworm can be the latest weapon in the war against climate change. A major four-year-old study has revealed that instead of just wriggling around and providing food for birds, earthworms – have been burrowing their way through the ground for 300 million years – can help prevent

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The Daily Telegraph: IT’S the webcam that gives a whole new meaning to high definition.  The world’s highest webcam has started broadcasting images of Mt Everest – the world’s tallest mountain. The special camera has been locked on to the side of a nearby peak, Kala Patthar, at a height of 5675m and is powered

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BBC: Scientists have begun to predict the animals that may become extinct in the next century because of climate change. Researchers at Brown University in the US have combined predictions of climate change with the geographic ranges of well-studied amphibians. While the animals will try to migrate to areas with more suitable weather, short-term temperature

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Farm chiefs have a narrowing chance to diversify vital crops at rising threat  from drought, flood and pests brought by climate change, food researchers warned  on Monday. The world’s nearly seven billion people are massively  dependent on a dozen or so crops that, thanks to modern agriculture, are intensively cultivated in a tiny number of

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MND: The 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is 3,000 pages long. Since most people will never wade through a document of that length, the IPCC has prepared a handy summary-of-summaries called the Synthesis Report. The final, specific wording of that document was hammered out via a political negotiation involving bureaucrats,

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