How One Online Global Warming Poll Could Influence US Policy
Photo: gregw66 , Flickr, CC Sure, everyone gets a kick out of online polls: They’re fun, simple, interactive. The votes get tallied up right before your eyes, a digital snapshot of community opinion. But you’d be hard-pressed to think of anything less scientific — and certainly anything less worthy of basing actual policy recommendations upon. Yet just two days ago, the results of an online poll were submitted as actual testimony in a Congressional hearing on climate change, by a so-called expert seeking to discredit climate science. This is the story of how this absur… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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How One Online Global Warming Poll Could Influence US Policy
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