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More Vid: NPR Execs Discuss When Not to Cover Climate Change Skeptics

We‘ve already covered James O’Keefe’s major NPR video of the day while highlighting our concerns. We‘ve also covered NPR’s response. Now, new video of the exchange between NPR executives and O‘Keefe’s fake actors has surfaced, and that’s worth covering, too.

The Washington Times has gotten a hold of extra content not featured in the original release. In the new video, executives Ron Schiller and Betsy Liley can be seen discussing how their science editor covers climate change. The pair seems to suggest NPR’s science coverage intentionally does not include comments from climate change skeptics:

Ms. Liley talks about a donor who would only give to NPR if the outlet did not talk to those who believe climate change is not happening:

“This funder said to us, ‘ you know you would like us to support your environmental coverage, but we really don‘t want to give you money if you’re going to talk to the people who think climate change is not happening,’” Ms. Liley recounted.

She continues to say, “It is a complicated thing, though. There’s a political question and there is a scientific question and we were talking to him about supporting the science desk. And so we’ve gone back to the science editor and asked how have you planned to cover this thing? Our coverage, if you look at our coverage, you would say that science coverage has accepted that climate change is happening and we’re covering it. But in politics, our Washington desk, might actually cover it should it resurface as a political issue…this debate.”

Schiller chimes in:

“The main point here is that it is not our responsibility to present the opinion of a non-scientist through our science desk. All educated scientists accept that climate change as fact. On the political side, however, where it is not accepted as fact, and the fact that debate is happening is news and it’s really important news. And our point of view requires that we cover that debate, if for no other reason than to have Americans understand there are still people who believe that it is not fact.”

We’ve reached out to NPR for comment on this video and have yet to hear back.

From the looks of the Times story, it appears it had access to the video and edited its own excerpts. Readers will notice that the Times video (featured in its original story) does not have closed captioning like O‘Keefe’s, and yesterday, a Times reporter even asked NPR CEO Vivian Schiller if she would accept donation’s from an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

To be sure, it isn‘t odd for a group such as O’Keefe’s to tip a news outlet about a story.

On a side note, O’Keefe has theoretically released the full, unedited video. However, in order to view it one needs a upgraded Vimeo video account, available by subscription only.

UPDATE:

Readers no longer need an upgraded Vimeo account to view the unedited footage.

Comments (103)

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  • HTuttle
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:16pm

    Climate Change vs. AGW. Once again the Left mixes the two to manipulate the discussion.

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  • dcwu
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:14pm

    Joseph Goebbles is father of CPB.
    Agor is its mother.

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  • texasfarmer
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:12pm

    What single aspect of nature is not subject to change? Even the earth moves and is in a state of change. Everything is in a state of flux.
    But the left thinks in their infinite wisdom that they can control nature.
    They can’t even control their emotions.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:19pm

      texasfarmer,i see bluebonnets and paint brushes what part of this GREAT STATE of TEXAS are you from, me, from between bryan and hearne.love those flowers, hopefully wee will have why more than last year,they are beautiful when they are in bloom.

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    • abseas
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:22pm

      Farmer . . That’s funny and sad at the same time. Mainly because it’s true!

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:08pm

    Well folks I am going to give you some excellent news on Global Warming and the Hoax, it will be alot more understandble for everyone to if you will study the people behind the myth of Global Warming. the people who want you to believe Global Warming lied to you on purpose, it is about money, power over people and control. Everything a liberal progressive has dreamed for many years.

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    • abseas
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:17pm

      Yup . . It’s all about POWER, MONEY, and CONTROL over the masses. It’s a big step in meeting the goal of the enemy of all mankind.

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  • 2centsworth
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:07pm

    So NPR admits they are nothing more than advertisers! You pay us and we will exclusively promote your brand. National PR, the advertisers that promise market capture of those too lazy to research for themselves. NPR new motto: One Side Is All.

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  • geonj
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:06pm

    so the scientists who don’t believe in global warming are uneducated mr. schiller? if this is what you believe then you are just another lefty loon.

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  • abseas
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:02pm

    Well duh! Climate change is a fact! Doesn’t take a genius or ‘trained scientist’ to come to that conclusion. Climate has been changing since time began. There’s global warming and there’s global cooling. It’s mostly affected by sun spots and volcanic activity. The industry of man and cow farts have little to do with anything when it comes to climate change. There’s some facts for you to chew on commie/liberal/granola/tree hugging/progressive/pinhead/Marxists!

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:10pm

      you do know that they have started a program where they actually pay people to collect and process cow farts as you put it, { methane } to study their effects on global warming, how would you like to stand behind one of those cows for hours waiting for one to fart??? that would be a stinky job,but a job at least, what is coming after the fart,is what the left and n p r are saying { CRAP } .

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:00pm

    climate change????? over millions of years,the climate has changed either to hot or to cold, that is how mother nature deals with balance ,she knows how to make this plant work for all,yes,we are not helping,but mother nature has ways of dealing with that, i am sick and tired of a left wing way of lies, if they can’t be fair and balanced, how can they be believed, george soros is evil and all who took his money will some day have to answer for their greed,he made them he will destroy them and himself.just like nature,she will provide,and then she will take it away, just as she has done for millions of years and will continue to do for millions of more.

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  • gchrv
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:57pm

    This is my favorite quote from this video:

    “All EDUCATED sientics exept that climate change is a fact”

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  • dcwu
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:53pm

    Scientists don’t “accept” things.
    They hypothesize and they test their hypotheses.
    Liars say scientists “accept” things.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:04pm

      we need scientist to do a exam on why n p r leans so for left. that could be the reason for global warming,the earth is leaning to for out of axis.

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    • 2centsworth
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:13pm

      NPR leans so far left that Dem Congressman Hank Johnson worries Washington DC will tip over!

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  • aarondav
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:48pm

    National Procrustean Radio…..again. If it doesn’t fit our ideological template, it’ll be covered only as a political phenomenon of ill-educated politicians/voters.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:46pm

    NPR is a busy little office today. We’re sure enjoying it out here in Colorado! Keep it up, James and BLAZE!

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  • Bill Wallace
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:33pm

    I don’t think they get it. Both sides.

    To say climate change is NOT happening is beyond stupid. It does happen. It is a natural phenomena that has repeated throughout history.

    So the question is not IF it is happening, but WHAT IS THE CAUSE. Is it man? Maybe. Maybe not. The science cannot state such.

    All those UN scientists and Gore have failed in every computer model they set out. They have difficulty reading a thermometer. They hide science that contradicts their view. Does it make them wrong? Maybe not.

    But no scientist can pin a number on how much of the current climate issue is man-caused. Impossible to do so. They know it. That is why they stick with the polar bears. Stick with emotion when you lack facts.

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  • Cabo King
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:27pm

    Al Gore is a dino fart!!

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  • positive1
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:23pm

    What do you get when you mix science, religion, politics and higher education? Global warming one decade and now climate change the next, and the stakes are high…Think about it, religion loses believers, Science community gains or loses positions of employment or has hit a ceiling of current and future employment for college graduates without global warming tax $$$’s and forced regulations. Politician receive a wind fall of funding on both sides right or wrong, the Universities receive billion in tuition and student loans if they can force the issue on their students converting them into activist in hopes of a climate change careers(must pay for student loans with half truths and false data). As for the environment and the planet, I don’t think we are still choking on dinosaur farts and ancient volcanic ash. So as long humans don’t pollute lakes, streams, river, de-foresting or dump toxic waste in land fills I think the planet and our great-grand children will be just fine. O wait the USA has been doing this for the last 30 years or more. And yet the environmentalist, Lobbyist, Universities, politicians, EPA and paid activist all want more of your money.(gravy train anyone)

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  • RECOVERING-LIBERAL-IN-WOODSIDE-CA
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:23pm

    A true scientist would welcome any and all information, even that which will refute the original argument. All stories have at least two sides….. grow up.. Let’s de-fund NPR!!!

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  • Rightsofman
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:20pm

    Does this mean that in the scientific community there are “uneducated” scientists? I always thought that to be a bonifide,scientst you had to be a Phd. in your field of expertise but in this day and age maybe not.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:18pm

    Give me one good reason the tax payer should subsidize any radio or TV station. Let the free market decide who stays and who goes, just like in the real world.

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  • Lloyd Drako
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Global warming or no, would anyone disagree that recent years have seen a lot of what might be called “Big Weather?” Some of this winter’s storms have covered 2/3 of the US, which I don’t seem to recall ever happening before.

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    • beckwill
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:25pm

      Key word in your comment “Weather”. It’s weather everybody…WEATHER! Sometimes it snows, sometimes it rains, sometimes it’s hot (global warming then I guess), sometimes it’s cold (climate change then). When it’s winter and the whole country gets a dose of it guess what… that’s weather too!
      the indoctrination of climate change is nothing more than a sure fire scheme for some to get filthy rich at the expense of the rest of us. PERIOD!!

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    • jjufon
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:26pm

      so the last ice age that happened before you came into this world didn’t happen, because you didn’t see it???

      you do know that the Great state of Texas was once an ocean right? this is fact.

      what did man do to cause it to dry out?

      ever been to Yellowstone Park? seen some pictures?

      all that was created by a super volcano.

      the planet is changing everyday and there isn’t a single thing man can do to stop it; or speed it up.

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:32pm

      So, what caused it?

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    • drattastic
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Happened in the 70s.Back then these same doomsayers (or ones just like them) were saying we were going into another ice age ,or how about the ozone layer was disappearing ,or how about we would all starve because of over population,or how about deforestation was going to kill the earth .or killer bees ,or fire ants .Just because these chicken littles have become more sophisticated doesn’t make the right.The real world destroyers are the Islamist and the neocommies and they are right in our faces doing their thing.

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    • marine249
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Lloyd Drako 2/3 of u.s. under snow never happen before?
      Dust blows in the 30
      check history before opening your pie-hole
      ?? what are you a ten year old

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    • REDPILLREADY
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:21pm

      Trying to draw a conclusion from a year, a decade or even a human lifetime of weather observation is like never knowing Obama but being permitted to listen to one shortened sound bite from him ie “…I love this country…” and concluding he is the single greatest patriot in our nation’s history.

      BTW, I searched but couldn’t actually find a quote from Obama saying anything close to this. Mmm, which raises another good point about the TRUTH of “climate change” science; the only thing abundently clear is how scandalous it is.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 5:57pm

      No, I can’t remember the Cretaceous, or whenever it was that Texas was underwater.

      Yes, what I was referring to is “weather,” the relatively short-term ebb and flow of hot and cold, dry and wet.

      Climate change would be “weather” extended out over as long a period as can be studied, and scientists have tracked climate change.

      Not to go back to prehistoric times, there’s no doubt at all that the period between the 14th and 19th centuries, the so-called “Little Ice Age,” was a little nippy compared to what preceded and followed it, a clear example of climate change.

      Yes, it was really dry in 1930 and in 1933-1936, and we’ve had wet and dry spells since, but this doesn‘t bear on what I’ve called “Big Weather,” which has as much to do with the size as with the intensity or impact of weather phenomena.

      No, 2/3 of the US has never been under snow–well, not in 12,000 years or so–but if you check out weather maps from earlier this winter, at times you will note individual storms covering 2/3 of the US, with a mixture of, say, rain in Oklahoma, sleet in Kentucky and snow in New York.

      I’m not suggesting Big Weather is a catastrophe, since humans are ingenious and adaptable, and I’m not making any suggestions as to what if anything should be done about it, though many of you seem to think I am..

      I’m not even stating, I’m simply asking, if cyclonic disturbances, hurricanes, typhoons, and the like, have or have not grown measurably larger within the last few decades, and if so, why?

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:09pm

    Behold the Philosopher Kings who are leading we the benighted into Utopia.

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  • Untameable-kate
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:07pm

    The climate change discussion wears me out. The climate of this planet has been changing since the beginning of time. They had to change the discussion from global warming since we are in a cooling trend, when we go into a warming trend they will stop saying climate change and return to global warming. Morons.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:06pm

    Well, if all educated scientists agree that climate change is real, as claimed in this NPR opinion, I say: BIG WUP. I’m no scientist and believe too that CLIMATE CHANGES everyday. Warm, cold, windy, calm, rainy, dry, what have you………..things change. Their CORRUPT AGENDA HAS BEEN EXPOSED!

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:21pm

      We used to just call that weather – though I think it quite ironic that with all the technology and “experience” no one can seem to accurately predict the weather yet we are somehow supposed to believe that we can change it??????

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:09pm

      Yes every educated scientist agrees climate change happens,it‘s the man made part of climate chnage that all educated scientist aren’t agreeing on.

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  • absolutely
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:05pm

    Soooooo did Ms Liley get fired up the Soro’s ladder yet? Absolutely

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    • absolutely
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:16pm

      Waiting for the NPR reply to this one……….waiting……………waiting…………….waiting…………………
      Absolutely

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    • Toastery
      Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:17pm

      NPR is corrupt to the core. Jump Elmo! This ship is sinking!!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:02pm

    NPR has to be defunded, and their licensing with the FCC brought up into questioning over this wide range of ethics matters that cross the line into the purest of fraud and propaganda demagaugary for the progressives and especially the administration and UN on the climate junk stuff.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:19pm

      If my tax dollars were not used to fund NPR or PBS I wouldn’t give a crap what they say. They have first amendment rights, just not on my dime please.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:25pm

      @snow Good Morning Feline friend, I agree that it should be defunded and I believe it will be. Has anyone heard what Michelle Bachman and gang have found in the Obama bill that has another $105billion that is already funded so the healthcare bill cannot be unfunded unless Obama, Pelosi and Reid give that money back? It is complicated and the video is as this one is and I can’t get it very well It is on her facebook page and on Rightchange. I am furious and she is livid.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:18pm

      Defunding won’t help because they will just find other backers. Soros would be thrilled to spend more of his millions on spreading their leftie propaganda. NPR’s pronouncements should be identified as entertainment, much like something that would come out of the National Enquirer. Their credibility is gone.

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  • Gold Coin & Economic News
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:00pm

    Of course all educated scientists accept climate change. They’re educated in the propaganda of the left.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:05pm

      Global warming (which doesn’t exist) has now become climate change…and NPR isn’t biased?

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:11pm

      The Earth has been cooling and heating for the last 4 billion years. What does Al Gore think caused it back then…. Dino farts?

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    • absolutely
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:15pm

      You know, I am beginning to think this James O’keefe needs to be made head of the CIA and Homeland Security under the next POTUS. This guy is good, no secrets around him he knows how to infiltrate and get the truth. Absolutely

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Someone at the Blaze needs to post this story! Will it make the impact it MIGHT have made prior to his election in 2008? Sadly, we will never know…but the story NEEDS to be told!

      http://frontpagemag.com/2011/03/07/deconstructing-obama/

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Agreed, even the UN scientists have admitted to having used false and altered data for the conclusion of global warming garbage to be propagated across the land; the UN leaders have admitted they are using the falsehoods just to move the worlds wealth from the richer nations to the poorer ones via the funds they control, supposedly for the benefit of everyone.

      And they have the audacity to call us conservatives liars and delusional tale tellers.

      The sad part is how many people are deluded by NPR and the UN at the same time.

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    • Laus Deo
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Following this, NPR will grumble-grumble, then crumble-crumble.

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    • Beckofile
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Coin
      yes…If we call it “climate change” then it is fact. I know that yesterday was warmer then today and the change was a fact that my thermometer confirmed. It will not matter in the future if the temp goes up or down but it will be the fault of our lifestyle. Progressives want control and money over the use of energy because it is something everyone and every product requires. Next will be food.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:21pm

      Obama Bin Lying: It is most likely that dino farts contained large quantities of carbon dioxide so Mr. Gore might well make that claim. After, the man does not have a high reguard for the truth!
      http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Toby and Obama Bin,
      The eco nuts and Algore are blaming cow flatulence so why not the dinos?

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    • absolutely
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:38pm

      Alright you guys, I think we actually talking about methane here. Absolutely

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    • Vixvenom
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:47pm

      Difficult to get funding proving the whole thing false….left has most of the money. When you begin the analysis of the data, anything that doesn’t fit can be thrown out. This is called erroneous data and it’s a long-used method in science to make the data fit the hypothesis. Anything opposing the hypothesis is simply discarded or ignored. Actually, numerous scientist disagree that humans cause significant climate change. They are erroneous data too. As a former meteorologist I can tell you, there is data that supports both sides of the argument, but one side is ignored because it doesn’t fit a multi-billion dollar GREEN initiative. It is all about money…simple. PS the ozone hole? All gases are thinner over the polls…bet you never heard about the ring of more dense ozone surrounding the hole, huh? It’s caused by centrifugal force and upper level convergence…..but that didn’t fit…always question science…it is almost always altered and frequently wrong.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:51pm

      All educated scientists, my backside, I can show you dozens I work with that don’t, 2/3rds of our scientists don’t, and I work for one of the largest environmental labs in the United States.

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    • Oil_Robb
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:04pm

      Pants on the ground Pants on the ground “Youre looking like a LIB with your pants on the ground

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    • ablisterin
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:05pm

      The liberals are so brilliant yet they can’t label all their theories as facts. Ever notice how liberals are always introducing their guests as “brilliant.” There seems to be a fine line between their brilliance and madness.

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    • ablisterin
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:08pm

      meant to say they label all their theories as facts.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:32pm

      Of course they don’t want to admit that their definition of educated is just like their definition of fairness, truth, goodness etc. It is lies which is all they know how to do.

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    • expatinontariocanada
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:14pm

      Why do I keep hearing in my head “Hide the decline…“ to the tune of ”Draggin’ the line”??? These so called scientists (referred to as “so called” because of their lack of adherence to the Scientific Method) are the ones who put out reports about “the warmest month/year in history”, all 150 years of it. Once you stop laughing you can start crying…

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    • Vixvenom
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:30pm

      @leftfighter
      Climate change is a horrible name for it, in and of itself. Of course the climate is changing, always has always will. Only an idiot would deny that….how convenient. Guess we can change evolution to bio-change….

      PS Semper Fi

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:34pm

      Their AGW scam is being exposed and they are getting desperate to keep the con going. It’s all about money, control and leftist politics.

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:34pm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks} said, “… even the UN scientists have admitted to having used false and altered data for the conclusion of global warming garbage to be propagated across the land.”

      That is news to me. Can you send a link to that admission? I think you are remembering incorrectly. But you can prove me wrong by linking a source for that information.

      You wouldn’t just make stuff up would you?

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    • Comm Marine
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:50pm

      What happened to the holes in the OZONE? What about acid rain, global cooling, etc. I didn’t know consensus meant truth

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    • avenger
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 5:57pm

      does this clown realize that the earth is flat…

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    • MONEY_FOR_NOTHING
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 7:02pm

      It’s more like educated to say the right thing in order to keep the government funding coming in…

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    • valricoslash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 8:28pm

      I thinkthat if you check credentials you will find more pseudo scientists that support AGW then bonified scientists. Whenever someone says they are an expert in climate change the first thing I do is Google them to see what their credentials are and where their real expertise lies. When it comes to AGW supporters you will find social scientists, liberal arts majors, photogrpahers, tree-huggers, and people that simply attended one of A; “the hypocrit” Gores weekend seminars, etc. Rarely do you see meteorologists, atmospheric physicists, etc. So the statment made by the NPR VP of Nonsense is all nonsense. Let me qualify myself: Retired USAF meteorologist with 20 years experience.

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