The Sleight of Hand in the Disingenuous 4th National Climate Assessment
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Among the most troubling aspects of the NA4 is what appears to be a sleight of hand intended to disguise the unimportance of…
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irming up the math on the economic cost of climate change makes a bad picture look worse.
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