August 29, 2011

Countering Climate Change

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[ASSURAS] How do you get global warming skeptics to save energy and invest in renewables? Easy -- stop saying, "global warming."

[BOB DIXSON] Here's a small community in rural America, of very conservative values, embracing what has been perceived in the past as a liberal, left-wing ideology.

[ASSURAS] We go to Kansas to see how one group is changing the conversation to conservation. But scientists point to climate change as a major threat to the beauty and bounty of the world's coral reefs.

[RICK MacPHERSON] Coral reefs have existed on our planet for millions of years. And in the past 30 years, we've lost 20% of them. They're destroyed. They're gone. . .

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