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Check the facts

Sun., Oct. 1, 2017

In her Sept. 25 column, Sue Lani Madsen provided some information about scientific literature to justify her position of denying human caused climate change. As a Ph.D and a university professor, I inspect literature carefully. I checked the information provided by Ms. Madsen and found many errors. The paper that she cited was not published in the Journal “Science and Education.” It was published in the Journal “Energy Policy” as a short communication in 2014 (not 2013), and has only one author, Richard S. J. Tol, with five affiliations (not five climatologists!)

Duanning Zhou

Spokane

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