How one small sentence kicked up a storm of climate controversy

Grist: When Charles Darwin wrote, "Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die," do you think he thought to himself, "Dude, I`m about to piss a bunch of people off"? Or when Copernicus and Galileo forwarded the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around, do you think they were trying to ruffle Vatican feathers? Well, OK, maybe these guys saw trouble brewing. But another, contemporary scientist didn`t. In the mid-1990s, Benjamin Santer authored a chapter in...

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