When the warmest year in history isn't

San Francisco Chronicle by Debra J. Saunders | Dec. 1, 2008 (Opinion)

When it comes to global warming, newspapers play up stories that reinforce the prevalent the-sky-is-falling belief that global warming is human-caused and catastrophic. But if a study or scientist does not portend the end of the world as we know it, it rarely rates as news.

In that spirit, many papers (including The Chronicle) have reported on a UC San Diego science historian who reviewed 928 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles on global warming ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 1, 2008

Saunders is a Republican activist and commentator who studied Greek and Latin in college. The article comes across as being from an uninformed partisan without scientific credentials who selectively quotes odd "scientists" who pop up as warming deniers. She uses the odd argument that if 99% of trained scientists agree that human-caused global climate change is a problem, that means they must be wrong.

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