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EPA Head Faces Questions About Buried Climate Report

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus7/08/2009 3:34:41 am PDT

Not sure exactly that for which you are asking for a link.

Regarding the substance of the report, I gave my opinion here:
littlegreenfootballs.com

For the plagiarism part, try here:
“Supressed” Climate Report Cribbed From Patrick Michaels?


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But what about un-referenced sources? Plugging Carlin’s report into Plagiarism checker.com revealed a whole series of unreferenced sections lifted verbatim from one of the deans of the denial industry, Patrick Michaels, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.

Have a look: Page 79 of Carlin’s PDF states:

“For instance, despite the overall rise in U.S. and global average temperatures for the past 30 years, U.S. crop yields have increased (Figure 3-1), the population’s sensitivity to extreme heat has decreased (Figure 3-2), and our general air quality has improved (Figure 3-3). Further, there has been no long-term increase in weather-related property damage once changes in inflation, population size, and population wealth are accounted for (an essential step in any temporal comparison). All of these trends are in the opposite sense from those described in the EPA’s Endangerment TSD.”

Small world. It seems that a November 19th op-ed piece on Michael’s website entitled “Why the EPA should find against Endangerment” has exactly the same wording and exactly the same graphs. In fact, the entire section 3 of Carlin’s report seems to be a very thin re-write of the anti-EPA piece from last November.