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Ed Markey: “Telling the American people there is a pause in global warming may lull the gullible to sleep, but it is phony, it is…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2015
Telling the American people there is a pause in global warming may lull the gullible to sleep, but it is phony, it is inaccurate, and it is wrong.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey criticizes claims of a pause in global warming as misleading.

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