Now alarmist Dessler teams up with David Roberts, the "climate Nuremberg"/snowboarding guy

Huff Po gets one right

Word is that this was an editorial slip-up on HuffPo's part; they don't typically provide a place for this kind of agitprop. The essay is gone from the site's portal pages and rumor has it The Huff herself may address the issue soon.

Regardless, the essay is out there getting skeptics all twitterpated (again). These folks can't find a scientific journal with two hands and a flashlight, but nothing escapes their RSS feeds.
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Indeed, the case against carbon dioxide is pretty close to airtight -- see, e.g., this old post.
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Notwithstanding Mr. Ambler's confusions and deceits, humans are now in the climatic drivers' seat, with the pedal to the metal. Maybe it's time we put our hands on the wheel.

David Roberts takes on the alleged "denial industry"

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg.

Gristmill: About David Roberts

After several wayward years spent snowboarding and getting an MA in philosophy (go griz), he woke up with nothing but a dissertation between him and an arid, cloistered life spent debating minutiae with the world's other 12 Dewey scholars. So he bailed. A period was spent trudging through the swamp of Seattle tech work, wading past Amazon.com, IMDb.com, and Microsoft, before the fine folks at Grist fell for his devastating good looks in December 2003.