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I know: This didn’t happen in California, so why mention it? Well, sometimes stories come in that just seem to crystallize the persistent (some polling would suggest growing) public division over climate change and this is a good example.<\/p>\n

When signs on Burger King outlets started opining that “Global warming is baloney,” a Memphis reporter decided to check it out<\/a>. His exchanges with the local burgermeister and the parent company make for pretty amusing reading.<\/p>\n

Interesting that while polls taken within the last year have indicated flagging faith in the prevailing view of climate scientists that the world is warming, a spring poll by the Pew Research Center<\/a> showed 59% of Americans supporting some kind of cap on carbon emissions. Though still sharply divided along party lines, that could indicate that some kind of reluctant consensus is forming around the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never has the term “a sign of the times” been more apt. 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