Opposing view on global warming will be aired

This afternoon at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas, a skeptic standard-bearer, S. Fred Singer, will deliver a talk titled "Nature — Not Human Activity — Rules the Climate."

"Evidence shows human influence is not detectable. And natural effect is quite large," Singer said he will tell his audience. Singer, the founder of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, has traveled the country as a climate-change naysayer.

He is "regarded with reverence," said Dan Miller, a publisher at the Heartland Institute, which puts out a newsletter asserting no scientific consensus on global warming and gets money from energy corporations. "He has been in this battle, in the trenches for a long time. He's a warrior of epic proportions on this issue."

Asked about his military metaphors, Miller said: "We're under attack by a lot of alarmists."

NASA official 'off the deep end' on coal (OneNewsNow.com)

Marc Morano, the communications director for the GOP Minority Environment and Public Works Committee, says Hansen is being criticized for those remarks by members of the scientific community.

"Here's just some of the phrases -- he's exhibiting megalomania, scientific authoritarianism," he contends. "Others have said he is off the deep end [and] that we need to get the net for him."

Marc Morano (GOP EPW)The comments are shocking, Morano points out, because coal is one of the greatest liberators of mankind in the history of the planet. "If you look back in time, carbon-based energy has brought lower infant mortality, longer life expectancy, modern infrastructure, running water, electricity," he notes. "It's brought modern dentistry; it's brought a whole host of medical advances."

It defies logic, says Morano, that Hansen would equate coal with death.

March 30: Gore to promote his scam in Boston

Al Gore, March 30, 8 p.m., Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre, Boston. Question and answer period follows. Part of the Speaker Series: The Minds that Move the World. $38 to $200. speakerseries2009.com or 866-348-9738.