Climate Science: follow the money


	Climate Science: follow the money

amgumen

7-24-2009 10:20 PM

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alarmism, climate

amgumen says:

and less than one five‐thousandth of the value of carbon trading in just the single year of 2008.

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7-25-2009 8:25 PM

shaor

personally, I think this is 'mass hysteria' and refuse to join!

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