Point/Counterpoint
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2006 will go down as the year that the media universally tried to sell America on the unproven theory that man-made global warming is destroying the planet, and will cause our imminent doom. Part of this hysteria includes fallacious assertions by all involved that there is a scientific consensus regarding these dire predictions.From CBSNews.com:
Two private advocacy groups told a congressional hearing Tuesday that climate scientists at seven government agencies say they have been subjected to political pressure aimed at downplaying the threat of global warming.Read both pieces and come to your own conclusions. If you're still not sure where you stand on all this, dive into our past posts – we've written about global warming coverage more times than I can count. (You might want to start here, here or here.)
Not that any of this is likely to change too many minds, of course. Though there are some moderates in the bunch, global warming remains one of those issues about which people on both sides feel strongly, and no one seems terribly interested giving so much as an inch.