ApocaDocs: Fake 'addendum' by conservative group tries to undo federal climate report

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Posted Mon Oct 22 2012: from The Daily Climate:


	Fake 'addendum' by conservative group tries to undo federal climate report http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1350916340 A new "addendum" to be released as soon as this week purports to update with the latest science a 2009 federal assessment on the impacts to the United States of climate change. The addendum matches the layout and design of the original, published by the U.S. Global Change Research Program: Cover art, "key message" sections, table of contents are all virtually identical, down to the chapter heads, fonts and footnotes. But the new report comes from the conservative Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute. And its findings -- that science is questionable, the impacts negligible and the potential policy solutions ineffective -- are more a rebuke than a revision of the original report and of accepted science both then and today.

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'Doc Michael says:

Cato puts the "dum" in addendum.