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'''Neela Banerjee''' is a journalist who falsely accused the Republican of plotting to "attack ... scientists who link air pollution to climate change."<ref>[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-epa-battle-ahead-20101030,0,6040861.story GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists] - misleading news story</ref> It as actually well-known among conservatives that air pollution changes the climate, and the GOP has never said otherwise.
The real problem is a small group of renegade scientists who have claimed that carbon dioxide (which is not a pollutant) is the biggest factor in [[global warming]]. The Republican Party respects the peer-reviewed research of scientists who have have shown that most of the increase in the earth's average near-surface air temperature is due to natural causes.