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Global Warming Skeptics, leading climate experts, enter legal battle

ScienceNow: A veritable who's who of climate scientists has weighed in on an important question before the Supreme Court: whether the U.S. government should regulate carbon emissions from new cars. Last month, a group of climate scientists told the Supreme Court that a 2003 decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to regulate greenhouse gases from cars was based on a misreading of the scientific literature. Yesterday, eight climatologists took EPA's side in the case, writing that there is "insufficient evidence that carbon dioxide emissions will endanger public health or welfare."

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