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Don't Discredit Climate Change
Saturday, December 11, 2004; Page A21
Juliet Eilperin's Dec. 2 news story on climate change, 'Humans May Double the Risk of Heat Waves,' is the latest example of the media's 'he said, she said' treatment of what reputable scientists say is one of the greatest threats to the human race. Even worse, the article countered the findings of the world's top climate scientists by quoting an oil industry-funded economist. Such reporting is not credible, nor does it illuminate a subject of significant importance.
The article began by citing a peer-reviewed study published in the revered scientific journal Nature, which reported that the risk has more than doubled for the type of lethal heat wave responsible for 35,000 deaths in Europe last year. But the last half of the article is squandered on the views of Myron Ebell, an economist
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