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Miller clashed with Palin over science on global warming

Monday, October 6th, 2008

By Staff

Monday, October 6
(updated 5:16 am)

Rep. Brad Miller was one of the relatively few people from North Carolina who didn't have to say "Sarah who?" when the governor of Alaska was named the Republican vice presidential candidate.

Sarah Palin had blasted the N.C. Democrat in a 2007 letter, criticizing Miller for his role in a debate that starts with whether to classify polar bears as an endangered species and sprawls into the complex topics of climate change and drilling for oil in Alaska.

"This is really about the legitimacy of science," Miller said recently.

Not in dispute is that the polar ice shelf, the polar bear's habitat, is shrinking. (more…)

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