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Have environmentalists who focus on climate change really “undermined the cause with claims bordering on the outlandish,” as the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank said a couple of days ago? Apparently not. The Wonk Room took a look at those claims and found that (a) they were true, (b) many of them didn’t have anything to do with global warming, and (c) they weren’t made by environmentalists anyway.

This is what happens when you take stenography from the Heritage Foundation. Any reporter past his senior year in high school ought to know better.

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