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Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Global warming (view source)
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, 03:27, July 19, 2012Cuccinelli's investigation of the UVa
# A recent charge is that U.K. scientist and Green Party activist and Realclimate.org member William Connolley functioned as a Wikipedia editor and website administrator, repressing information that militated against Climate Change. As such he "rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period."<ref>[http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx ''Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor'',] December 19, 2009</ref>
# A recent charge is that U.K. scientist and Green Party activist and Realclimate.org member William Connolley functioned as a Wikipedia editor and website administrator, repressing information that militated against Climate Change. As such he "rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period."<ref>[http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/12/19/lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor.aspx ''Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s climate doctor'',] December 19, 2009</ref>
#[[Michael Mann]] is a well known global warming alarmist who is ridiculed for his so-called scientific work on tree ring temperature data, the Hockey Stick theory and was the subject of fraud in the [[Climategate]] scandal. Wikipedia decides not to allow any mention of his involvement with Climategate. Any mention of Climategate is immediately removed from Mann's page. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_E._Mann&diff=prev&oldid=332744981]
#[[Michael Mann]] is a well known global warming alarmist who is ridiculed for his so-called scientific work on tree ring temperature data, the Hockey Stick theory and was the subject of fraud in the [[Climategate]] scandal. Wikipedia decides not to allow any mention of his involvement with Climategate. Any mention of Climategate is immediately removed from Mann's page. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_E._Mann&diff=prev&oldid=332744981]
#The Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Virginia%27s_climate_science_investigation Attorney General of Virginia's climate science investigation] covers conservative [[Ken Cuccinelli]]'s investigation of Michael Mann while he was on the faculty of the [[University of Virginia]]. The article immediately characterizes Cuccinelli as a "conservative Republican party politician and global warming skeptic." The article then describes the "Initial Public Reaction" as being against Cuccinelli's investigation without quoting sources that supported the investigation.
# Wikipedia defines ''Denialism'' as "choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid an uncomfortable truth". It then gives as two of its main examples, Exxon-Mobil contributing to climate change research, and the Bush Administration's refusal to submit the Kyoto Protocol for ratification.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism]
# Wikipedia defines ''Denialism'' as "choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid an uncomfortable truth". It then gives as two of its main examples, Exxon-Mobil contributing to climate change research, and the Bush Administration's refusal to submit the Kyoto Protocol for ratification.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denialism]