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Posted at 11:00 AM ET, 09/17/2009

Poll: A Cup of Climate With Your Weather?

* Full Forecast Through Weekend | Summer or Fall: Which Is It? *

If you think the health care debate is heated -- just wait. Climate change looms as the next hot topic in this nation's political discourse, especially as Congress considers legislative action to cap U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions and world leaders prepare to negotiate a new global warming treaty at a December conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

By now most people understand that weather is not the same as climate, and similarly, a meteorologist is not the same as a climate scientist. Still, more and more meteorologists -- with varying degrees of climate science knowledge -- are expressing their views on climate change. And that trend is likely to continue as the climate debate gets louder in the coming months.

So, our question here today is...

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Categories:  Climate Change, Climate Change

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