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, was produced by the

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, a non-profit organization created by the

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. Early editions were paper based; it was then transferred to a web-only format, having ceased publication as a physically based report with Volume 8 in 2002. It existed until 2019 in

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-driven mass global climate change, or as it calls it, '

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'. However, it did not reject other well-established and widely accepted scientific concepts such as global climate change itself or the

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, in general attempting to engender itself as giving a well balanced and scientific view of the sources (though often at a contrary expense of its perceived adversaries: the aforementioned alleged 'Global Warming Alarmists').{{cite news , first= Patrick , last= Michaels , title= New Climate for Global Energy Policy , url= http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7501 , work=

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Opinion & Commentary , date= February 6, 2007 , accessdate= 2007-05-03 , quote= In summary, what's not new in today's IPCC report – that humans are warming the planet – will be treated as big news, while what is new – that sea levels are not likely to rise as much as previously predicted – will be ignored, at least by everyone except the extremist fringe. WCR says of itself: : ''World Climate Report, a concise, hard-hitting and scientifically correct response to the global change reports which gain attention in the literature and popular press. As the nation's leading publication in this realm, World Climate Report is exhaustively researched, impeccably referenced, and always timely. This popular biweekly newsletter points out the weaknesses and outright fallacies in the science that is being touted as "proof" of disastrous warming. It's the perfect antidote against those who argue for proposed changes to the

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, such as the

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, which are aimed at limiting carbon emissions from the

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... World Climate Report has become the definitive and unimpeachable source for what ''nature'' now calls the “mainstream skeptic” point of view.'

In addition to Patrick Michaels (chief editor), the staff is listed as Robert Balling, Robert C. Balling, Jr (contributing editor), Robert Davis (contributing editor), and

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(Administrator).

References

* WCR cited by the Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison: ''In the News: a monthly newsletter'',
Data and Imagery
" April 2007.
Frontiers of Freedom

produced a document entitled
Recent Research in Climate Change Issues
in 2005, compiled from numerous WCR articles. Climate change denial Environmental reports