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November 8, 2004
Bush Advisor: The Sky Isn't Falling

Believe it or not, this isn't a joke. The man quoted in this article is an advisor to the president.

An advisor to President George W Bush has reportedly claimed that global warming is a fallacy created to disrupt the American economy, in an interview on Radio 4. Myron Ebell, from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), claimed that the notion of climate change through man-made emissions was "ridiculous and unrealistic".

The views of the UK's chief scientist Sir David King - who stated that global warming posed a bigger threat to the planet than terrorism - were dismissed by Ebell as 'a ridiculous claim', and Sir David an 'alarmist'. The European Commission was also accused by Ebell of targeting the American economy through efforts to develop an international climate change strategy.

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