Washington Wakes Up to Global Warming

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An ice lake is seen in the Greenland ice cap in this Aug. 17 2005 file photo. Scientists say the vast icy landscape is thinning and many blame global warming. (AP PhotoJohn McConnicoFILE)
An ice lake is seen in the Greenland ice cap, in this Aug. 17, 2005, file photo. Scientists say the vast icy landscape is thinning, and many blame global warming. (AP Photo/John McConnico/FILE)

(AP) -- Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro.


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