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After the warmest year on record, West Virginia feels the heat
2015-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Fridays news that 2014 was the Earths hottest year on record could not have been timelier for West Virginia, where a dissident member of the Board of Education recently altered new teaching standards to reflect his personal doubts about climate change. The board member, L. Wade Linger Jr., didnt like the sound of a sixth-grade study plan mentioning the rise in global temperatures over the past century. So he had the language changed to: rise and fall. The temperature rises and falls all...
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