The article neither identifies these non-scientist humanitarians nor presents any scientific evidence to back up the non-specific assertion about global warming being to blame.

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The alarmists and their media allies aggressively focused attention on the study and made the additional assertion that global warming and carbon dioxide emissions must be to blame.

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Some would say we need to have a presence to ensure a constant flow of oil into the global markets, but such an assertion is plainly absurd.

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The mere fact that the Little Ice Age ended a little over 100 years ago, and that temperatures have warmed during the course of recovering from the Little Ice Age, tells us absolutely nothing about the remaining components necessary to support an assertion that humans are creating a global warming crisis.

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" On the report's assertion that Mr. Murdoch is unfit to run a global company, the spokesman said: "That is a matter for the regulatory authority, not the government, to decide.

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On one level, the whole thing was an assertion of raw power, dressed up with the trappings of a grand global strategy.

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And he rebuffed an assertion that he knew about customer money that might have been transferred to a European affiliate just before MF Global collapsed.

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