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Credibility claim shows low quality of climate debate

11/23/2009
By Bob Tippee
Everything wrong about debate over climate change congealed in a single sentence at a Senate Finance Committee hearing Nov. 10.The words came from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in response to warnings about costs of the cap-and-trade legislation he has sponsored with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)."Your studies aren't credible because you haven't considered the impacts of inaction," Kerry said (OGJ Online, Nov. 11, 2009). In other words, the senator isn't listening. He and his allies promote an apocalyptic view of planetary warming in response to which they hope to seize control of energy markets.With the help of a dazzled popular media, they have succeeded in polarizing discourse in...
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