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CNBC special stacked in favor of environmental regulation

Ken Shepherd of the Business and Media Institute writes that a recent CNBC special on global warming had specialists that were stacked in favor of the global warming theory.

Shepherd wrote, “While Christiansen labeled global warming proponent and NASA scientist James Hansen as the ‘world’s leading researcher on global warming’ and her producers affixed the phrase ‘world’s leading climate scientist’ as his title in on-screen graphics, she dismissively tagged Fred Smith as ‘president of the industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute.’

“Indeed, Smith was the sole critic of government regulation to control global warming amidst four proponents from business and academia who favored global regulation of greenhouse gases.

“But Hansen’s findings are not above criticism. In fact, scientists have weighed Hansen’s latest findings and found them lacking.”

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