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Don't say you weren't warned.

The "environmental publishing company" ECOworld promises to keep "nature and technology in harmony," but the content of the website and the clear bias of editor Ed (Redwood) Ring shows that Ed would be more forthright if he adopted a nickname that demonstrates more clearly his leanings, say Ed (We Need More Freeways) Ring.

Dismissing the risks of global warming as "baseless and undisguised propaganda," a John Birch Society blogger has pronounced that evidence for climate change is "shoddy," and that, on the basis of Bjorn Lomborg's (thoroughly discredited) analysis, "a little warming wouldn't be such a bad thing after all."

This is classic "Echo Chamber" PR: you start with a lie; you pass the lie around; and after you repeat it enough times, it starts to sound like the truth.

For a group of people that caution we must be 100% certain before drawing conclusions about human-induced climate change, the denier industry sure jumps all over a single, preliminary study as absolute proof of their own conclusions.

The subject of their breathless "I-told-you-so's" is a paper to be published (pdf copy here) shortly in The Journal of Geophysical Research by a scientist named Stephen Schwartz.

Growing Number of Scientists Convert to Skeptics After Reviewing New Research

By EPW Blog (Posted by Marc Morano, chief aide to Sen. James Inhofe)

Following the U.S. Senate's vote on a global warming measure, it is an opportune time to examine the recent and quite remarkable momentum shift taking place in climate science. Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics.

It was a night of disappointments as President G.W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address to the joint Houses of Congress Tuesday.

First, the rumoured White House policy shift on global warming never materialized. It's true that President Bush mentioned climate change for the first time in a State of the Union address, but it was a less-than stirring reference:

"America is on the verge of technological breakthroughs... these technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment -- and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."