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Climatologists Balk as Brazil Picks Skeptic for Key Post
2015-01-07 02:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Calling Aldo Rebelo a climate-change skeptic would be putting it mildly. In his days as a fiery legislator in the Communist Party of Brazil, he railed against those who say human activity is warming the globe and called the international environmental movement nothing less, in its geopolitical essence, than the bridgehead of imperialism. Though many Brazilians have grown used to such pronouncements from Mr. Rebelo, 58, his appointment this month as minister of science by President Dilma Rousseff...
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