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we also published the Skeptics Guide to Global Climate Change Q&A. Here are the top 25 arguments that the climate skeptics make here the top

25 counters to those arguments and I bring this all up because my guest today is

David Lipsky here Here's his new book, The Parrot and

the Iglu, Climate and the Science of Denial. Or you might just call it Denial.

What's going on there? David is the contributing editor at Rolling Stone.

His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the New Yorker. Harpers, the best American short

stories, the best American magazine writing, the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, and many others.

He contributes to NPR's All Things Considered.

It is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAD, and a national magazine award.

He's the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of essays $3,000,

and the best-selling non-fiction book,

Absolutely American, four years at West Point.

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