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<DIV align=left><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3>Today Lawrence Solomon, author of
<EM><STRONG><A
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target=_blank>The Deniers</A></STRONG></EM>, has a
great piece on National Review Online exposing how
the editors of Wikipedia (supposedly the "people's
encyclopedia") have become part of the global
warming propaganda machine.</FONT> </DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>And it's not just on
Global Warming that Wikipedia pushes the left-wing
line. As Larry says "Wikipedia is the people's
encyclopedia only if the people are not
conservatives."</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>We reprint Larry's NRO
piece in full below. </FONT></P>
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size=3><BR></FONT><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><FONT
size=3>Our petition to urge John McCain not to get
sucked into the myth of Global Warming continues
to gather steam. Next week we will do our biggest
mailing yet in our push to get 100,000 names by
mid-July and half a million before the GOP
convention. </FONT> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>Meanwhile
GreenWatchAmerica will continue to update you on
what is now clearly the Left's favorite weapon for
pushing its agenda: Environmentalism twisted into
an excuse for seizing control of more and more of
the economy, and forcing Americans to live
out the Left's dream of the good life, even if it
strikes us as a nightmare.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>As some of you know, I
got motivated on the global warming issue by the
experience of editing and publishing Larry
Solomon's book, which demonstrates beyond a shadow
of a doubt, not only that "the science is not
settled", but that the most eminent climate
scientists a<FONT face=verdana,geneva>lso tend to
be the most skeptical of Global Warming
hysteria.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>As book publishers we
can only do so much. GreenWatchAmerica gives us a
vehicle to pitch into the fight in a much more
timely way.</FONT></P>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4><STRONG>By Lawrence
Solomon</STRONG></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>Ever wonder how Al
Gore, the United Nations, and company continue to
get away with their claim of a "scientific
consensus" confirming their doomsday view of
global warming? Look no farther than Wikipedia for
a stunning example of how the global-warming
propaganda machine works.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>As you (or your kids)
probably know, Wikipedia is now the most widely
used and influential reference source on the
Internet and therefore in the world, with more
than 50 million unique visitors a
month.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>In theory
Wikipedia is a "people's encyclopedia" written and
edited by the people who read it -- anyone with an
Internet connection. So on controversial topics,
one might expect to see a broad range of
opinion.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>Not on
global warming. On global warming we get
consensus, Gore-style: a consensus forged by
censorship, intimidation, and
deceit.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>I first
noticed this when I entered a correction to a
Wikipedia page on the work of Naomi Oreskes,
author of the now-infamous paper, published in the
prestigious journal Science, claiming to have
exhaustively reviewed the scientific literature
and found not one single article dissenting from
the alarmist version of global
warming.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>Of course
Oreskes's conclusions were absurd, and have been
widely ridiculed. I myself have profiled dozens of
truly world-eminent scientists whose work casts
doubt on the Gore-U.N. version of global warming.
Following the references in my book The Deniers,
one can find hundreds of refereed papers that cast
doubt on some aspect of the Gore/U.N. case, and
that only scratches the
surface.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>Naturally
I was surprised to read on Wikipedia that
Oreskes's work had been vindicated and that, for
instance, one of her most thorough critics,
British scientist and publisher Bennie Peiser, not
only had been discredited but had grudgingly
conceded Oreskes was right.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>I checked with Peiser,
who said he had done no such thing. I then
corrected the Wikipedia entry, and advised Peiser
that I had done so.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>Peiser wrote back
saying he couldn't see my corrections on the
Wikipedia page. I made the changes again, and this
time confirmed that the changes had been saved.
But then, in a twinkle, they were gone again. I
made other changes. And others. They all
disappeared shortly after they were
made.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>Turns out
that on Wikipedia some folks are more equal than
others. Kim Dabelstein Petersen is a Wikipedia
"editor" who seems to devote a large part of his
life to editing reams and reams of Wikipedia pages
to pump the assertions of global-warming alarmists
and deprecate or make disappear the arguments of
skeptics.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>I soon
found others who had the same experience: They
would try to squeeze in any dissent, or even
correct an obvious slander against a dissenter,
and Petersen or some other censor would
immediately snuff them out.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>Now Petersen is merely
a Wikipedia "editor." Holding the far more
prestigious and powerful position of
"administrator" is William Connolley. Connolley is
a software engineer and sometime climatologist (he
used to hold a job in the British Antarctic
Survey), as well as a serial (but so far
unsuccessful) office seeker for England's Green
party.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>And yet by
virtue of his power at Wikipedia, Connolley, a
ruthless enforcer of the doomsday consensus, may
be the world's most influential person in the
global warming debate after Al Gore. Connolley
routinely uses his editorial clout to tear down
scientists of great accomplishment such as Fred
Singer, the first director of the U.S. National
Weather Satellite Service and a scientist with
dazzling achievements. Under Connolley's
supervision, Wikipedia relentlessly smears Singer
as a kook who believes in Martians and a hack in
the pay of the oil
industry.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>Wikipedia
is full of rules that editors are supposed to
follow, and it has a code of civility. Those rules
and codes don't apply to Connolley, or to those he
favors.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>"Peisers
crap shouldn't be in here," Connolley wrote
several weeks ago, in berating a Wikipedian
colleague during an "edit war," as they're called.
Trumping Wikipedia's stated rules, Connelly used
his authority to ensure Wikipedia readers saw only
what he wanted them to see. Any reference,
anywhere among Wikipedia's 2.5 million
English-language pages, that casts doubt on the
consequences of climate change will be bent to
Connolley's bidding.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva
size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>Nor are Wikipedia's
ideological biases limited to global warming. As
an environmentalist I find myself with allies and
adversaries on both sides of the aisle, Left and
Right. But there is no doubt where Wikipedia
stands: firmly on the Left. Try out Wikipedia's
entries on say, Roe v. Wade or Intelligent Design,
and you will see that Wikipedia is the people's
encyclopedia only if those people are not
conservatives.</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT
size=4><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=3>--
Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy
Probe and author of The Deniers.</FONT>
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face=verdana,geneva>
</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT size=4><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3></FONT></FONT><FONT
face=verdana,geneva size=3>If you are interested
in Larry's book, The Deniers is available at
<A
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target=_blank>Barnes and Noble</A> online.
Eventually we will have it up on the Green Watch
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