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Jim Destefani
JIM DESTEFANI, Editor
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I officially became a crackpot more than two—or was it three?—years ago. At an industry event in our nation’s capitol, attendees were assured by organizers that expressing any doubts about the reality of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming would immediately get us labeled as a “crackpot” in official Washington.

We were further informed that, as far as our esteemed representatives in Congress were concerned, the science of global warming (it was still warming back then, not climate change) was settled.

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