Tilting at windmills in Virginia

Here.

Excerpt:

Now, you might think that a bipartison panel would include those "for" and those "against" - in this case global warming theory. But you'd be mistaken. This panel begins with the premise that global warming is fact, that humans can do something about it, and its only charge is to figure out how to achieve a 30% reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases. The debate, apparently, will be in the "how," not the "should." Or even "if." The "bi-" part of the partisanship remains unclear.

Excerpted quote from Patrick J. Michaels:

"If every nation of the world that has obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change adopted and met the Virginia target, the amount of warming that would be prevented would be approximately six-hundredths of a degree Celsius per half century.

Snippet from the linked article:

Michaels, who contends that there is no statistically significant warming trend in the Virginia record dating back to 1895, is on leave from a research position at the University of Virginia.