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The AP’s Global Warm-ongering

The climate change skeptics are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

Scientists skeptical of the assertion that climate change is the result of man's activities are criticizing a recent Associated Press report on global warming, calling it "irrational hysteria," "horrifically bad" and "incredibly biased."

They say the report, which was published on Monday, contained sweeping scientific errors and was a one-sided portrayal of a complicated issue.

The Associated Press? Biased? Say it ain't so!

In the article, Obama Left with Little Time to Curb Global Warming, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein wrote that global warming is "a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid," and that "global warming is accelerating."

David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue, said the article is further evidence of the media's decision to talk about global warming as fact, despite what he says is a lack of evidence.

One would think, given the skepticism the media deserves when it comes to their questionable dissemination of information and/or ideological propaganda, they would show more care in making definitive statements regarding an issue they're clearly clueless about.

One would think….

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