For the Record - May 31, 2008
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Climate change: Sharon Hays, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was misquoted in an article on global warming in Friday’s Section A. She was quoted as saying that a series of reports showed “that climate change is primarily caused by human activity of the last 50 years.” The quote should have read “that climate change of the past 50 years is primarily caused by human activity.”
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