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Anti-global warming report a hoax
WND ^ | 8 Nov

Posted on 11/08/2007 2:45:00 AM PST by Proverbs 3-5

The Global Warming organization of "skeptics" is congratulating an Internet hoaxer for his eye for detail and vast work that was put into a report that purported to assign the blame for "global warming" to sea-grown bacteria.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; global; hoax; warming
Is it me or is the headline a little misleading? The headline does not seem to match the body of the article. The way I initially read the headline is that an anti-gorebal warming report is a hoax. But upon reading the article, it appears the article is actually about an Anti-gorebal warming site reporting on hoax... Maybe it's just me...
1 posted on 11/08/2007 2:45:00 AM PST by Proverbs 3-5
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To: Proverbs 3-5

It’s not you. That is a horrible headline.


2 posted on 11/08/2007 3:23:04 AM PST by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Proverbs 3-5

Well, actually, it seems to me to be both. It reads to me like a global warming skeptic website uncovered a hoax that, if it were accepted, would undermine global warming theory. So basically, a skeptic debunked a skeptic hoax. So the headline is accurate, technically.

Qwinn


3 posted on 11/08/2007 3:29:57 AM PST by Qwinn
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To: Proverbs 3-5

A matter of punctuation and an extra word:

Global warming? Report a hoax!


4 posted on 11/08/2007 3:37:55 AM PST by Philistone (If someone tells you it's for the children, he believes that YOU are a child.)
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To: Qwinn
Well, actually, it seems to me to be both. It reads to me like a global warming skeptic website uncovered a hoax that, if it were accepted, would undermine global warming theory. So basically, a skeptic debunked a skeptic hoax. So the headline is accurate, technically.

Yikes!! You may be right but that sounds like something out of a presidential debate! :)
5 posted on 11/08/2007 4:33:58 AM PST by Proverbs 3-5
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