Talk:National Assessment on Climate Change

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This article was so flawed that I hardly know where to begin. To begin with, the National Assessment on Climate Change is NOT a report issued in 2002. It is a scientific assessment process that was mandated by Congress in 1990 and that produced a report in 2000, not 2002.

What happened in 2002 was that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its own, separate report, titled "U.S. Climate Action Report 2002," which reached similar conclusions to the National Assessment. [1]

Confusing these two reports is akin to writing an article about the Mormon Church which claims that it was founded in Korea by Sun Myung Moon. A mistake this fundamental demonstrates that its author simply knows nothing at all about the topic on which he is writing. I find it rather mind-boggling, frankly, that Ed would call the NACC "fundamentally flawed," when clearly he has never read its report and doesn't even know what the NACC is.

I've also removed the section from this article in which Ed purports to list specific methodological flaws in the NACC report. None of the supporting citations that Ed offered to back up these methodological claims even mention the NACC.

--Sheldon Rampton 10:09, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)