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Here is a great example of spin, this time by the oil-money backed Media Research Centre and it's affiliated group "NewsBusters." The goal of the intrepid team at Newsbusters is to "expose and combat liberal media bias." Well, here's a little bias from News Busters themselves.

According to a recent UK Telegraph story, an upcoming report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will claim that "mankind has less of an affect on global warming than previously supposed." A leading UK climate scientist explains that this downgrade is a refinement simply "due to better data on how the climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming."

Far from being the whole story, the Telegraph article goes on to paint a pretty grim picture indeed, but Newsbusters would like us all think something quite different…

Check out ThinkProgress for another take on this.