Katrina One Year Later: Slaughtering Strawmen

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By Chris Mooney
Aug 29, 2006 7:05 PMNov 5, 2019 10:14 AM

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Timed for the Katrina anniversary, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has put out a short report on the hurricane-climate issue (PDF). Without taking a premature stand on who is or isn't winning the scientific debate at the present moment, I'd like to point out how CEI misrepresents the state of that debate. The chief technique seems to be to debunk strawman arguments that no one is actually making. Consider the following:

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