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Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens' Sick Souled Neurosis

Posted on July 03, 2008

Global warming is a sick-souled religion. Really? Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens thinks so in his article, Global Warming as Mass Neurosis. Unfortunately for Stephens' and the rest of the planet, his evidence for such an inflammatory claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny.As evidence of this 'sick religion' Stephens points to US temperature records: NASA now begrudgingly confirms that the hottest year on record in the continental 48 was not 1998, as previously believed, but 1934, and that six of the 10 hottest years since 1880 antedate 1954. True enough, NASA did correct their te...

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