The EPA's climate con

Looks like the great climate-change unraveling came none too soon. Three states last week filed papers challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's scheme to use global-warming fears to seize sweeping power over much of the US economy. Officials Full Story »

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Jon Mitchell
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by Jon Mitchell - Feb. 22, 2010

"'Consensus'" in quotation marks, alleged "conspir[acy]" by the British Climate Research Unit, and straw man "alarmists" everywhere. This article, like so many others in the Bad Journalism News Hunt, relies on recycled rhetoric for emotional weight, rather than soberly presenting the facts.

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Feb. 22, 2010

Contains no cost metrics, does nothing to support the "bye-bye economy" claim. The "recent revelations" are given zero context—context that essentially invalidates them as evidence against climate change.

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Feb. 22, 2010

A biased rant that has seems largely based on the author's imagination, with few links to factual evidence. Doesn't add much to the public discourse about this complex issue.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 23, 2010

Biased and factually challenged on an important subject. Himalayan glacier citation cannot be described as a 'central claim' of the IPCC. The glacier claim was not mentioned in the highly visible summaries for policymakers. Scientists' studies show glaciers throughout the world are melting rapidly. Etc.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Feb. 22, 2010

It's absurd to assert that the climate change consensus is "unraveling", and then cite a handful of isolated events that primarily constitute adjustments and qualifications in scientific studies. Moreover, "alarmists" are cited without naming the sources.

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Edward Craig
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by Edward Craig - Feb. 23, 2010

Typical Murdoch propaganda

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