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Article: The greenhouse spin: energy companies try the 'tobacco' approach to evidence of global warming.(United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report)
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- The Nation
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- December 16, 1996
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With a handily won re-election and his party still controlling Capitol Hill, Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski remains confident he can contain the Clinton Administration's recent shift toward climate activism. "The scientific jury's still out," the walrus-sized politician and longtime advocate of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge claimed when he opened an Energy Committee hearing on global warming in September (stacking it with global warming "skeptics"). On July 8 President Clinton had received a letter signed by executives of ninety-eight oil, steel, auto, mining and utilities corporations urging him not to negotiate any "premature agreements" aimed at ...