Poznan: Morano meets Littlemore

Climate change denier extraordinaire Marc Morano dropped a news release on my desk this morning and smiled broadly when I said, "Hey, are you Morano?" - a smile that turned more sardonic when I told him who was asking.
...
The last lesson, though, will be hardest. His party is over. The opportunity to "credibly" challenge the science of climate change is passed. But you have to admire the bullheadedness of someone who would wander into this crowd and start arguing that the sky - lying in figurative chunks all around our feet - is in fact not falling.

One-Trick Loonies - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This week’s update is similarly instructive in two ways. Of course it was attacked immediately. The reason is that, without “certainty” about “urgency,” there will be debate — and, when there is debate, the alarmists will lose.

Not just fail to succeed, mind you, but their entire enterprise will be exposed and their proposal defeated, not to rear its ugly head in the same guise for quite some time. So any challenge requires a full-throated, spittle-flecked assault, but against those who dare speak, not the substance. This is the point of Red Hot Lies, and I am pleased that the alarmists have once again risen to the bait and proved my thesis.
...
Uh . . . “DeSmogBlog?” Actually, this is a leading alarmist organ — and their inevitable argument, which typically starts and finishes with ad hominem and promises more, is we don’t know these people so we are going to work on a smear, check back later. That’s how this industry works...