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Sue Sturgis: Art Pope's think tank keeps misleading on climate science

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Sue Sturgis: Art Pope's think tank keeps misleading on climate science

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Surfers and waders deal with the narrow beach below a 10-foot “cliff” at Nags Head in July 2018.

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In July, as global temperatures broke new records and new research showed that the near-unanimous consensus among scientists that human activity is driving global warming passed 99%, climate science deniers convened at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., for the Heartland Institute’s 13th International Conference on Climate Change.

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Sue is the editorial director of Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies.

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