Climate denier high school textbook clumsily defended by publisher Houghton Mifflin

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Houghton Mifflin issued this statement in response to the growing controversy

Also, follow the link for a point-by-point debunking of the Houghton statement. Ugly anti-science. These guys are pitting climate change "skeptics" (aka deniers) on par with the consensus of scientific opinion on the matter. Typical ploy where a denier tries to make equivalent a small sect of skeptical voices against the tide of a scientific consensus on an issue as if there is equal weight.