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Hot Under the Collar Over Global Warming

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Instead of investigating the claims made by the professors and scientists cited in the article, reporter Juliet Eilperin found it easier to slam them as crackpots and morons.

When explaining how the skeptics' group, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), was formed to offer an opposing viewpoint to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), she made sure to note:

"While the IPCC enlisted several hundred scientists from more than 100 countries to work over five years to produce its series of reports, the NIPCC document is the work of 23 authors from 15 nations, some of them not scientists," a blatant attempt to knock the group. But a little basic research would have revealed that the makeup of the IPCC itself is questionable.

MICHAEL BONGIOVI

Warrenton


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