Paul Welday, chief of staff for Knollenberg, said that they prefer not to call the language a rider.
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In the view of the EDF, Knollenberg and his compatriots are highly ideological and simply choose not to believe the science.
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It appears that Knollenberg and his colleagues define any efforts to reduce emissions, and by extension global warming, as implementation of the Kyoto treaty.