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Story Created: Oct 22, 2008 at 4:59 PM EDT

Story Updated: Oct 22, 2008 at 5:42 PM EDT

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Student volunteers from colleges around New York State braved freezing cold temperatures on their bikes Wednesday to send a message to state and federal political candidates: pay attention to climate change.

The New York Public Interest Research Group helped organize the ride. Environmentalists cheered on the bikers as they stopped in Utica around noon. They want candidates to let voters know what they plan to do about global warming and the energy crisis.

NYPIRG and several other public interest groups also sent letters to the candidates, urging them to support policies that will dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Sunday, Nov 2 at 5:10 PM Flu-Bird wrote ...

Yeah these idiots going around promoting this whole rediculous idea of GLOBAL WARMING might i suggest they all put duct tape over their mouths its gose a long way to curb HOT AIR

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Sunday, Oct 26 at 9:58 AM Daniel wrote ...

Oooh, global warming. I'm so scared. We're all going to die !!! I wish I could save the planet like these college kids from Algore's whining, but I can't. I wonder how much money Algore has made since he started his crusade on phony man-made global whining.

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Sunday, Oct 26 at 2:41 AM trueblueaussie wrote ...

wait until you hear what our Socialist Prime Minister is proposing....and he has been talking to Obama

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Saturday, Oct 25 at 9:21 PM Brute wrote ...

It rained here today.....must be due to global warming. Global temperatures are dropping, CO2 rising.....there is no coorolation. Can everyone say FRAUD?

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Friday, Oct 24 at 8:46 PM A person who bikes wrote ...

As a person who bikes all winter (and summer) in Chicago, I do not have a lot of sympathy for these protesters, however, it should be noted that global warming (i.e. climate change) or not, reducing pollution is a good thing.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 7:32 PM Visitor from Middle America wrote ...

Here's a tip for next year...schedule the event in August...

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 6:49 PM LEO wrote ...

these students have no reason to ride just to increase my "awareness". i'm quite aware of "global warming"....i just don't believe it.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 6:35 PM Marc Jeric wrote ...

Look up on the internet "Petition on global warming" and "Manhattan resolution" to see 31,000 names (9000 with PhD's) denying any human-caused global warming.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 6:31 PM Galbert Ore. wrote ...

The reason the name has changed from Global Warming to Climate Change is because the panic stricken needed to be able to shriek at any weather fluctuation. SInce the Earth has been cooling for the past eight years we now need to panic over Global Cooling (Climate Change) not Global Warming. Of course, higher taxes, and a MUCH larger government are the solution.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 6:09 PM An Iraqi Freedom Veteran wrote ...

All you "conservative" don;t seem to understand its climate change. The weather will be eratic. There will be hotter hots and colder colds as well as changing paterns. Where I am in Las Vegas we are 10 degrees above normal for the month of October. look beyond your "conspiracy" theories about the liberal media and face the truth you can't polute forever.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 6:05 PM doom and gloom chuck wrote ...

Now the important part folks: How much money did Al Gore bilk people out of? How much has Al ripped off the less intelligent people of America? Follow the money and in my opinion Al Gore should be in jail.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 5:32 PM Jeff In Miami Beach wrote ...

It looks like our attempts to stop Global Warming have worked. Now on to catching all the terrorists while we drill like crazy for oil in the US!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 5:25 PM Community Agitator wrote ...

Emmit CO2 - It's Plant Food!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 5:01 PM Dee Norris wrote ...

Stop Man-Made Solar Cooling Now! The Earth emits as much radio energy as a small star and with the advent of WiFi, Bluetooth and the iPhone, we as a society are continually emitting ever increasing amounts of electromagnetic (EM) transmissions. These EM emissions are interacting with the solar wind, forcing it back upon itself and therefore interfering with the Sun’s ability to generate sunspots. More at: http://deenorris.wordpress.com/

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 4:28 PM Jenny wrote ...

If this were the other way around, can you imagine how it would be covered? But, alas, it's a win for conservatives and we're lucky if it's on the back page. The good part? All their ratings and the papers circulations are down. We need to persevere!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 4:26 PM bozz wrote ...

No wonder the party of the dead.... abortion, death taxes, living taxes, global care (the new one)... stupid ignorant socailists!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 4:21 PM Brother Crimewave wrote ...

Notice that the term "global warming" has been replaced by "climate change". Pretty soon, when it becomes apparent that "global warming" doesn't exist, the "climate change" decried by the Chicken Littles will in fact be "global cooling". Then they will never mention "global warming", much less ever admit that such a term ever exited. George Orwell's predictions of a negative utopia, continue to be confirmed. War is Peace! Hate is Love! Cooling is Warming!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:56 PM Enlightener 2 wrote ...

I've been seeing this strnage pattern where every year it starts off cold, then it gets warm, and then it's cold again. Oh wait, those are the SEASONS... And I've also noticed that that the temperature rises every day when the big ball of light is in the sky. Oh wait, that's the SUN. Hm, maybe this SUN is what is making the earth warm...

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:44 PM Enlightener wrote ...

isn't this story an oxymoron of itself? Seriously, if global warming is true, then why are temperatures reaching record-lows? let point out the facts to you. CO2 levels and temperature have almost no relation. In fact, the temperature actually rises BEFORE CO2 does. Also, let me point out how we CAN'T make a difference: If every home in America switched 1 normal lightbulb with a fluorescent, it would be like getting rid of 800,000 cars ,which is equivalent to less than 0.1 of all cars worldwide.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:25 PM brrrrrrrrr wrote ...

cold day for a bike ride eh?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:25 PM Frank Lobo wrote ...

"braved freezing cold temperatures" to promote global WARMING - HA!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:22 PM FOR THE CHILDREN wrote ...

31,000 American Scientists say Al Gore is lying. Media? www.PetitionProject.org

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:16 PM realtruth wrote ...

I love it,the libs are staying away from this story like the plague!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:16 PM DavoMan wrote ...

Hopefully the exercise will warm them up! Don't count on global warming to do it!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:03 PM Be Nice wrote ...

While it is a bit amusing, I don't think people need to get so nasty on these boards. These look like college kids who are just pro clean energy. The Global Warming mantra is loosing steam as temps work lower in the last 3 years. http://www.nationalpost.com/893554.bin If this chart goes negative, I think Gore should return that Nobel Prize.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 3:00 PM sixpacktr wrote ...

Maybe we need some of the Washington blowhards, along with Algore, to come up here and speak for a while, to get the temperatures up with all of their hot air so that these poor fools don't have to wear a coat while the ride their bikes protesting how hot it is. I fear for this country. It seems that education is unimportant--only CAUSES matter...

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 2:45 PM Jim Buchanan wrote ...

Notice that I use my real name. Climate change is real. It effects us because it changes our ability to produce food for much of the world. It is caused by the electromagnetic shield around the earth and its relation to the sun's energy. There's not a darn thing we earthlings can do about it. Just live a good life, and help make the earth a nice place to live. See? I have a college education, and I have common sense as well!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 2:37 PM ZIP wrote ...

I live in alaska. My roomate rides his bike all winter long with studded tires. Freezing temperatures? Yeah right.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 2:33 PM radar wrote ...

If any and every weather event can be claimed as validating your hypothesis, how can you ever be proven wrong? Yet the left-wing media never addresses this issue.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 2:31 PM Ross wrote ...

The only idiots are the people who think a couple of cold days in one area of the world means the end of global warming. If anything global warming will mean freezing temps for certain areas and desert heat other places. I guess that may be hard for people who want to drill baby drill, which is like begging for typewriters in 1988 instead of moving to computers. The world is changing whether you want to believe it or not, so you can change with it or...

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 2:16 PM Freedom wrote ...

Liberals are so dumb that they believe in global warming even when the world is entering another Ice Age as it is now. No wonder they vote Democrat and that they think socialism works which it doesn't. This global warming scam is just a way for democrats/the media to turn the U.s. into a socialist state so that we will all be slaves and poor.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 2:12 PM Pete wrote ...

CO2 isn't a pollutant. If you believe that it is hold your breath forever.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:57 PM pedalingparson wrote ...

Number one, as a cyclist I can tell you these shack-packs aren't cyclist. Number two, these out of shape porkies probably emitted vast volumes of CO2 AS THE HUFFED AND PUFFED. Finally, according to satellite measurements and weather balloon radiosondes, the earth has cooled 1 degree F in the last 2 years, so these morons wasted their time. Global cooling is going to make morons out of great many people. Then I will get the last laugh!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:41 PM Hisako wrote ...

And exactly how much CO2 are these idiots exhaling in this meaningless stupid activity??????

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:38 PM fist wrote ...

Cyclists? Doesn't look like a cyclist among them. Did they borrow mom and dad's bikes?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:31 PM Stephanie wrote ...

Oh what irony! These global warming wackos will stop at nothing to control the rest of us and how we live our lives. It's really a Communist agenda. I wonder if any of these idiots have ever thought about the fact that humans exhale CO2. I seriously doubt that they have.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:29 PM smalleyma wrote ...

Im running for president on the new "Global Cooling crisis" We're gonna march on Washington carrying space heaters.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:23 PM Ed wrote ...

Global warming is a lie!!! it is a leftwing lie and brain dead people who believe al gore should be pitied!!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:18 PM Flanders wrote ...

Funny stuff! I also ROFL'd reading the email sent out by Harvard University inviting recipients to Al Gore's global warming speech, and also letting them all know that "(s)tarting at 3 p.m., we will be serving hot cider and soup to keep everyone warm..."

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:15 PM Lars wrote ...

Ha, Global Warming, no...no, Al Gore has specifically changed that term to Cimate Crisis. It will return to Global Warming only in the summer. Pay attention you lemmings.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:12 PM Cindy wrote ...

So what? I'm completely unimpressed. What a bunch of idiots. Environmentalists are going to be the death of us.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:10 PM I Love Global Warming wrote ...

All these comments are great, we finally get a chance to "air" our view point. Thanks to WKTV for allowing us this opportunity.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 1:00 PM Joe Mayers wrote ...

Why dont these ding-a-lings do their global warming ride in the summer when it is hot? It does not take a lot of smarts to do Global Warming when it is hot. Guess it shows their brain level.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:56 PM SUV wrote ...

You are all missing the point. Even these robots don't truly believe in global warming. They are embarrased to admit the ride is to trim a few LB's so they use the cover of the greatest scam of our my lifetime. Hide the dorm room cuisine and X-Box from this bunch.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:55 PM tom s wrote ...

Fools.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:45 PM SlouchingtowardBoulder wrote ...

The new clarion call will be regulation of CO2, not b/c of global warming, but simply because it is a pollutant and violates EPA VOC emissions.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:39 PM Gore A. Buffoon wrote ...

Ha. It doesn't get better than that. The church of manmade global warming still has many gullible members. Ask one of these climate change idiots exactly how 38 molecules of CO2 in 100,000 molecules of atmosphere can cause global warming. Answer: it CANNOT. It's the SUN, stupid.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:33 PM Daniel wrote ...

Now they are calling it climate change? What happened to good ol'-fashioned global warming? Did people finally see it was a scam and decided to change the name? This is the just too sad....

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:27 PM jimconch wrote ...

I wonder why no one has noted that the climate is constantly changing. Do we want to stop that(?), I sure hope not. I wonder if some of these people have ever heard of cycles in the weather and sun spot activity. Makes you wonder just how smart all of the are.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:19 PM disgruntled wrote ...

Glad to see the students are getting some good excercise, and I hope they remembered to dress warm. That aside, they're wasting their time. Manmade global warming is a LIE.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:18 PM Zen Bicycle wrote ...

If this globe gets any warmer I'll have to take off my gloves and hat on such a fall day in New York. By the way, I'm not really this fat, I ride my bike all the time. I'm just wearing several layers of additional clothing under my neon Global Warming shirt. I do, however, approve of this fancy news truck (that gets about 9 mpg) and all the energy burned back at the NBC studio covering our trek of absolutely no consequence.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:14 PM Richard, Dubuque wrote ...

Al Gore, Al Gore, please call your office immediately. We have a "situation" here.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:08 PM MikeG wrote ...

"Climate change" ride? If these fools ride their bikes every day, the climate will have changed each of those days. Of course there's "climate change". I ride my bike weekly and I can tell you the temps were different everyday I did. Should I be alarmed? Global Warming has been over sold, over hyped and under delivered since 1990.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:04 PM Randall wrote ...

So which is it, cooling or warming? "Climate change" is weather. Even if I buy the AGW BS, which I don't, the measures to preempt global warming (reduce CO2 discharge) would necessarily be the opposite of the measures to preempt global cooling, wouldn't they? So, now that we're going into a mini-ice age for the next 50 years, should I drive my SUV more? How about if the Goracle and his sheep get real jobs and leave the rest of us alone?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:04 PM aimee wrote ...

What happened to global warming? Oh that's right, it is getting colder! Oops. Stupid Al Gore and liberals! A bunch of sheep.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 12:00 PM Fast Eddie wrote ...

All aboard the FAIL bandwagon...

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:59 AM Ed wrote ...

Algore betrayed his country! He played on your fears!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:59 AM ironic... wrote ...

Freezing my butt off for global warming - gotta love the irony....

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:56 AM exDemocrat wrote ...

We need to take back public schools and colleges from the socialist fruitcakes. This has never been about global "warming, cooling, nor change." It's about the government and eco-terrorists clamping down on Americans and their energy freedom. November 5th ... the battle against this tyranny will being. Let's roll.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:43 AM Not Chicken Little wrote ...

Shouldn't they be going to class instead? On second thought maybe Mother Nature will teach them a better lesson than ever they could get from their leftist professors... By the way the sky is NOT falling.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:33 AM Chuck wrote ...

Global warming causes climate change. Overall, Earth is getting slightly warmer. This can cause regional heating or cooling trends. Regional changes in average weather patterns is called "climate change". Seeing as how this is linked from Sludge, I can understand all the furrowing and un-furrowing of brows in trying to understand that climate change and global warming are interrelated. Perhaps a little more education would be helpful, or is that too much to hope for?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:32 AM Adrian Vance wrote ...

CO2 is a trace gas in air and has little to do with atmospheric heating. Go to http://globalwarmingnotes.i8.com for the truth of the matter. Many fine articles all cross-referenced, peer reviewed, etc.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:25 AM Phil wrote ...

HA! HA! This is tooooo rich! So it's "climate change" now, huh? But regardless of "the problem" ( Coming Ice Age, Global Warming, Holes in the Ozozne etc) the solution is always the same, BIIIIIG GOVERNMENT. You libs are pathetic!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:22 AM Broks wrote ...

Question - since the issue is not " global warming " , but now " climate change ", shouldn't we have huge Conferences on what the perfect , ideal climate is ? Being from Houston , I want my climate to be just like San Diego . It is totally unfair that it is too hot here during the summer . Maybe the savior Obama can not only spread the wealth around , he can spread the climate around .

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:22 AM Barack "The Wealth Spreader" wrote ...

As President I promise we will all be riding bikes soon to elimanate climate change. The climate will remain static when I am the President.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:19 AM bigbluecarbon.com wrote ...

Here's your carbon theory.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:19 AM AL ba GORE wrote ...

You poor blind fools!, A mean decrease in global temps. is yet another sign of catastrophic warming! I have written another book called " Chicken Little's Guide to Progressive Thinking", co-authored by Manny Ruiz, He's Barbara Striesand's gardener. In it we have written testimony from all the leading poets, artists, community activists, and wives of film executives, proving global warming is real, and expanding at an alarming rate.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:19 AM Dave wrote ...

I guess they should buy more carbon credits. They're going to need them. http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Carbon_Dioxide_Regulation_Under_the_Clean_Air_Act.pdf

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:18 AM derbyfez wrote ...

George Carlin said it best. We don't need to save the Earth. The earth has been thru every geological change possiable and is still here. It's not going anywhere. We are going away! The Earth will shake us off like a case of fleas.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:15 AM Rambler in Atlanta wrote ...

Nobody has mentioned how the Arctic glaciers have grown this year, and we still have nov. and dec. to go. I think there has been 5 or 6 articles in recent weeks citing the cooling temperatures of the last 4-5 years...but haven't seen anything on CNN yet, so it can't be true.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:12 AM D. H. wrote ...

I find it telling that not one single pro-climate-change comment has appeared. It's like nobody but a few whackos believe this stuff, and given this state, how is it that the whackos carry such clout in the legislatures and governing bodies of this country? They're destroying our economy with this nonsense, and this is good? It's like the religious fervor that follows Messiah Obama because of his steal-from-the-rich to redistribute to the poor would-be-parasites. I fear for my country...

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:11 AM george wrote ...

Please check out www.icecap.us

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:11 AM Bill wrote ...

Children...now even less educated at all levels than before...always the best source of wisdom and knowledge.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:09 AM John Wark wrote ...

Go to www.bigbluecarbon.com

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:08 AM Bill wrote ...

A must see movie: "The Lives of Others."

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:08 AM Vlad Kuturkokov wrote ...

I think stories like this really illustrate the foolishness of the environmental movement.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:02 AM Fatfreddie wrote ...

Re-incarnation is a fact. I know this because P.T. Barnum has been re-carnated in the body of AlGore. He has got rich with a business model using the phrase atributed to P.T. Barnum "The is a sucker born every minute".

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 11:02 AM Skippy wrote ...

We are in a low sun spot acitivity right now and we very well could be entering a cooling age. What will the libs say to Mother Sun about this? Clueless

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:51 AM Al G. wrote ...

The planet is warming. We are all going to die in 10 years. My movie says so!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:49 AM Anonymous wrote ...

Yes, this would all be hillarious if we didn't have two presidential candidates who both buy into this hooey, and will likely implement policies which will further damage our already ailing economy. I can't even laugh about it. Its just too dangerous.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:47 AM Mike The Bike wrote ...

Having ridden to work for the last 28 years on a bike,I pray for global warming

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:39 AM Pete Zahutt wrote ...

This article is too funny on soooo many levels. Did I get linked to The Onion??

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:28 AM zoo2 wrote ...

Notice how the writer used "climate change" instead of "global warming." Funny stuff here.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:25 AM spudder wrote ...

Poor Al Gore has to come up with another scam, Ms Boxer will not have to cry Global warming for a while. BTW Al where did all the money go for your so called tax credits are they planting trees

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:15 AM rigturn wrote ...

The Earth compensates for natural cycles. As the atmosphere warms(if it sees fit) it will hold more water which will avoid the rise in sea level by the eco-alarmists.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 10:10 AM AndreaTN wrote ...

I had to laugh when I read this article, because I am freezing my butt off! There is a winter storm warning to my west and we will be around 36 tonight, yep it was not fools like this the NEOLIBERALS would not have a base! When I am at the university here, I shudder to listen to what my so called enlightened teachers are saying,,shouldn't the teachers at our schools represent the demographics of our country, funny the liberals have to stack the deck in their favor, afraid of fair fight!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:57 AM Jared in Houston wrote ...

Does anyone else see the irony in this?? When are the nut jobs going to wake up and realize human causes have very little to do with global warming!!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:55 AM Richard wrote ...

This is all so pathetic. Any good Engineering/Physics Student with some knowledge of thermodynamics/heat transfer can take the NASA data and debunk the models. Global warming is such a sham and testifies to the poor education, or I should say excellent indocronation our college students get. To quote and old line "they go hoping to grab the perfect prize upon the shelf" listening to these old half baked hippies, their lives spend hoping to be the creator of the great American footnote.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:50 AM Tim wrote ...

I hope they didn't add too much C02 to the atmosphere by engaging in heavier than normal respiration while they rode. Perhaps they captured the exhales in some kind of storage tank attached to the bikes. But what do we do with all this CO2 waste now.. hmm.. I'll have to think on that one.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:33 AM Phil wrote ...

Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. Why don't they find something useful to protest?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:31 AM Joe B wrote ...

HAHA... Global cooling is on the way folks... seriously, I'll line up with the global warming nuts as soon as they start including the effect of the SUN in all of their prediction models.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:31 AM Virginian wrote ...

They just have to start holding these things during the summer, or at least during periods where it is actually warmer than the prior year (or prior 125 years). If we could focus more on the energy situation and less on the "imagineered" anthropomorphic climate issue, then more people could get on board. More people on board leads to more possible solutions. Can we stop throwing good money after bad?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:26 AM Chod 06 wrote ...

Useful idiots - the whole lot of them. Want to make it cold outside? Just invite a bunch environmental wackos to the scene.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:26 AM Jim wrote ...

What does this have to do with Global warming? Everything that I have seen regarding Humans causing Global warming appears to be a hoax contrived to creates funding for left wing initiatives.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:25 AM mike wrote ...

ha they froze ther butts off promoting global warming awareness... idiots.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:25 AM John wrote ...

What global warming? Talk about a money making scam. Such blind followers.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:16 AM Really? wrote ...

Promoting Climate Change? That would be a first. Perhaps you meant promoting awareness of climate change? Or, Promoting Environmentalist agendas to alleviate or reverse climate change? Isn't it ironic they rode their bikes "in freezing cold temperatures" in October, to send a message to political candidates about global warming. Also ironic, people using bi-CYCLES to spread their message about normal global weather CYCLES.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:16 AM ken moss wrote ...

nice I hope those jerk college kids have an open mind to reality God must be laughing at them very funny indeed. How can people become so fanatical and brain washed in an open society?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:15 AM Kevin wrote ...

You mean for Global Cooling? College students are such idioits.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:15 AM Agga Blagga wrote ...

Ever notice that whatever the "crisis" is, whether it's "global cooling and the second Ice Age" from the '70's, or "global warming and we're all gonna cook to death" in current years, the solution (more government regulation and involvement) is always the same?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:14 AM ManBear wrote ...

Climate changes every year. Here in Minnesota it snows in the winter and warms up in the spring for too short a period and then the climate changes again. It's all very erie.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:14 AM Matt wrote ...

I would like to thank these guys for doing this. The upcoming ice age needs all the attention it can get now before it is too late.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:14 AM Mark wrote ...

Where's the irony here? People are protesting in "freezing cold temperatures" about global warming? The planet has been coolling since 1999 while CO2 concentrations have increased. Doesn't that mean the basis for the protest is fantasy? Shouldn't WKTV challenge these protesters with such facts?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:09 AM jake wrote ...

haha-Liberal Man made global warming people make me laugh. They all need to ride their bikes on the north pole around some polar bears to show their support.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:08 AM MUBulldog wrote ...

What a bunch of mind numb robots - it doesn't make one optimistic about the future of the country if this is representive of college material

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:07 AM Will from Buffalo wrote ...

How the hell do you write an article about global warming and open with Braved freezing temperatures?

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:06 AM MoikerMan wrote ...

LMAO....environmentalist youths making fools of themselves!!!!

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:04 AM Mary wrote ...

I guess in freezing temps it is "climate change" Get thee to school student! The climate changes. It is the nature of "climate" 90 million years ago the western US was a desert. Go polish your resumes sign up for a useful subject like business or accounting. Sheesh.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 9:03 AM Tom wrote ...

Good thing they changed the name of this fraud to "climate change" now that their claims of "global warming" have shown to be bogus. It takes religious faith to believe this false science. Radical environmentalism is false just false religion. These wack jobs really thing they will "Save the Planet." What a bunch of looney tunes.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:54 AM Porky wrote ...

I love how Global Warming morphed into Climate Change, so the hysteria can be prolonged! I'm sure these goofballs mean well, but perhaps if they read the latest in a long line of studies showing the sun is by far the biggest reason our climate changes (and has ALWAYS changed) they could be at home sipping hot cocoa and watching a Michael Moore movie....

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:51 AM Greg wrote ...

The earth warms. The earth oools. It's only been in the last 50 years this cyclical pattern has been a means to scam taxpayer dollars - in the name of the new religion - "environmentalism".

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:48 AM william wrote ...

I find it amuzing that our so called future still has not come to the realization that we have very little to do in climate change.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:43 AM Bob Collins wrote ...

Anyone notice how Gore's religion of global warming has morphed into global climate change? Perhaps these well-intentioned people cannot grasp the planet gets most of it's climate cycles from the heat radiated from the sun. And indeed, the planet's temperatures are cyclical.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:42 AM greener wrote ...

Seems a bit incongruous that these brave cyclists are braving the cold to highlight warming. Must be the Gore Effect. Lucky that Al didn't show up or they would have been braving a blizzard to fight global warming.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:37 AM American Man wrote ...

It used to be "Global Warming", in fact the warning were hysterical. Since it does not look like it will be global warming they now claim "Climate Change". What they mean is "I want my way, I want my way, I don't care if I lie, I want my way".

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:37 AM blipnews.com wrote ...

I think the best site I've found in the past few days has been blipnews.com If you read DRUDGE every day, you should check out blipnews. It's a tool that aggregates all the stories from DRUDGE REPORT and allows you to sort by most recent story and tags. http://www.blipnews.com

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:35 AM Ken W wrote ...

Forrest Gump put it best...Momma alway said, stupid is as stupid does.

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Thursday, Oct 23 at 8:34 AM Ernest wrote ...

Stupid! Enviromentalist whacko's cheered the biker on. Every summer the whacko's say "The polar ice is melting," just like Henny Penny. Nooooooooooooo kidding! Its summer you college dweeb! Ice melts in the summer!

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