Conservatives Misrepresent Science, Again

In an op-ed in today's NYTimes, scientist Peter Doran says that he is not a global warming skeptic. However, it turns out many right-wingers use his research to claim that he is:

Our results have been misused as "evidence" against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel "State of Fear" and by Ann Coulter in her latest book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism." Search my name on the Web, and you will find pages of links to everything from climate discussion groups to Senate policy committee documents - all citing my 2002 study as reason to doubt that the earth is warming.

He refutes all of these skeptics in one, concise sentence:

In the meantime, I would like to remove my name from the list of scientists who dispute global warming.