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Stephen Schneider
Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, consultant to federal agencies and/or White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, founder and editor of the journal Climatic Change.


“[W]e have to offer up scary scenarios [about global warming and destruction of the environment], make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts one might have . . . . Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”

Source: Trashing the Panet, by Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo, 1990, page 167. Also: The News Manipulators, by Reed Irvine, Joseph Goulden, and Cliff Kincaid, pages 296-297. Also: "Hot and Cold Running Alarmism," by Gary Benoit, The New American, December 8, 1997, page 20. Also: Global Governance, by Henry Lamb, page 118. Also: Global Governance, by Henry Lamb, page 88. Also: Brave New Schools, by Berit Kjos, 1979, 1980, 1982, page 120. Also: "Scary Scenarios, Oversimplification Highlight Environmental Curricula," by Berit Kjos, Media Bypass Magazine, June 1996, page 10. Also: The Limbaugh Letter, December 1997 page 14. Also: The AIM Report, September-A 1996, page 1.
Hardcopy: Copies of the source documents.
Where: During an interview for Discover magagzine. Schneider wrote the book Global Warming in 1989, 13 years after he endorsed Lowell Ponte's book The Cooling.
When: October 1989.
Contributor: AIM.
Category: Truth

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