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In a 26 December 2016 op-ed published by the digital newspaper Urban Milwaukee, environmental writer James Rowen reported that a section of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) web site, originally titled Climate Change and Wisconsin’s Great Lake, had been substantially altered: This assertion was easily verified by viewing an archived copy of the web site from 30 October 2016, which read: As of this writing, the Wisconsin DNR page in question (whose title is now The Great Lakes and a Changing World) reads as follows: Indeed, even uses of the word climate unattached to the word change were removed from the page, and inserted in their place were not-so-subtle statements that play to the talking points of those who deny an anthropogenic (i.e., man-made) component to Earth’s warming climate. Responding to our request for comment, Wisconsin DNR Communications Director James F Dick stated that their office's official position is that the science is not settled and that the page was updated to reflect this view: The overwhelming scientific consensus from the climatological community is that the climate is indeed warming and that human activity is contributing to that process.
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