Coding "The Wilting Climate Change Debate."

I appreciate how passionate Bradford Plumer is about climate change and that comes across in this article, but I think his deep opinions hinder his arguments.  Like Danielle, I thought it would be interesting to see how much of the article is made up of Plumer's opinions.  Within the 10 paragraphs, Plumer uses reliable and informative sources, like the EPA, IPCC and Politico.  However, I found 20 deeply opinionated phrases scattered throughout the article.  Most were put in parentheses after making an argument.  I noticed that much of the first and last paragraphs are opinion.  When it comes to an issue like climate change, where so many people have deep opinions, this article would have been more effective if Plumer had stuck to the facts and kept his government insults to himself. 

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