Oil lobby in plan to con public on climate bill


	Oil lobby in plan to con public on climate bill

JackieDel

8-17-2009 4:54 PM

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8-29-2009 1:14 PM

The Infowarrior

sucked in huh?

“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson continues. “Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”

- Reid A. Bryson holder of the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education.

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