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On the climate change debate, who's gagging whom?

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Message Mark Crispin Miller
The hoo-ha over those hacked emails from the University of East Anglia recalls the bogus "exposà ©" of ACORN that has just about succeeded in destroying that vital grass-roots group.
This too is a propaganda masterpiece, which now has millions of Americans convinced that all those scientists have long been plotting actively to shut out rational dissent and "fudge the numbers."
In fact, it's been the other way around--the (very powerful) deniers of global climate change deploying every means available, for years, to silence all discussion, and bury all the evidence, of global warming as a by-product of industrialization:
http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=global_warming_tmln&global_warming_tmln_general_topic_areas=global_warming_tmln_politicization
As usual, however, all such actual suppression got, and gets, almost no coverage, while this one case of alleged suppression has aroused what sounds like universal screaming. (So it was with ACORN's non-existent "voter fraud," while the GOP's immense election fraud, and voter fraud, and voter registration fraud has, all along, been known to just a few.)
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