Apparently the (right wing “think” tank) Cato Institute is set to release into the election campaign circus a report titled “ADDENDUM: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” which mimics in layout and format the national climate assessment report with the same title released by the White House and the USGCRP in 2009. We have heard that this report was coming, but apparently it is now to be publicly released and no doubt is intended to be taken up and pushed by the denial machine.

organization, all the way down to type face and the way figures are laid out, as well as the title.

A prepublication version of the report, dating from earlier this summer i think, is downloadable at http://www.cato.org/pubs/Global-Climate-Change-Impacts.pdf . Not sure how this compares with what will be released now. This report is their response to the 2009 ‘official’ assessment, and it is designed to look just like the original report in terms of the cover and