The book exposes through hundreds of detailed, meticulously footnoted examples a pattern of exaggeration and statistical manipulation, used by green groups to advance their pet causes, and obligingly echoed through the media.

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When wearing a conservative look khaki pants, white shirt and a blue blazer Mr. Murray may add spark with a colorful grosgrain-ribbon belt in pink or green, sometimes bearing embroidered whales or boats or a patchwork madras pattern.

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The 1920s botanical pattern made up of stalks of cartoonlike leaves blends with "multiple patterns" of green already in the room, she says.

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