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...towering above six feet and dressed in black clothes and ski caps, grabbed him from behind. Holding him against a wall, Nava said, they hit his head repeatedly against the bricks. "Eventually I just blacked out," Nava told the Daily Princetonian. The only catch? The whole story was a hoax...
...terms only four terms gave a sense of positive action: "global warming prevention," "how to prevent global warming," "ways to prevent global warming," and "global warming solutions." The other four terms rounding out the top hundred included the skeptical queries such as "global warming myth," "global warming hoax," "benefits of global warming," and searches for the skeptic's video answer to An Inconvenient Truth: "the great global warming swindle...
...emerged from the Lampoon Castle, riding down the street with ’Poonsters on the eight-person bike. Many in the crowd—hoping to see a performance—were frustrated by the Lampoon’s evasiveness. “It’s a hoax,” said Alterrell Mills ’10, one of the many students waiting in the crowd after Spektor’s initial appearance. “OK Go came and they didn’t even play. What is that about? Lampoon, they?...
Lomborg: Basically I think there's a need to have two conversations. One is what is the status of global warming. Is it a hoax? Is it a catastrophe? I try to say, well, it's neither. It's not a hoax, not a left-wing conspiracy to raise taxes or just natural variation, as many Republicans want to say in the U.S. On the other hand, it's not a not an unmitigated catastrophe, the end of civilization...
...thought it was irrelevant. I'm a self-described slight lefty in Denmark, which probably makes me incredibly left-wing in the U.S., so I'm very, very surprised. But I think this is because [climate change] has become so polarized in many ways, that it becomes either a hoax to Republicans, or to Democrats catastrophe. And what I like to say - and it's a little flip but I hope it's actually fairly true - is that I hope smartness is not a Republican or Democratic trait...