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[Alarmist fraudster] Gavin,

I’ve been monitoring “skeptic” websites and press commentary. In the last few months there has been a lot more talk about climate change, all of it escalating in intensity as well as number of articles (non-scientific of course) and harping on a few points such as Ian Plimer’s book in Australia, the globe-is-cooling mantra etc.

It’s probably conservatives trying to seize the attack ground in view of a possible pending debate about climate change in Washington, but the chorus of denialist opinion is so coordinated and their “logic” so simple it is convincing many, even among educated people (science PhDs) who cannot be bothered to look deep into things but try to form an opinion based on a few journalistic pieces. We should expect a very hard fight ahead.

For what? Cap and trade bad deal for U.S. | NewsOK.com

News reports say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pulled out all the stops to pass cap and trade legislation, scheduled for a vote today or tomorrow. Pelosi will have to get it done without U.S. Rep. Dan Boren’s vote and, we suspect, the votes of a number of other conservative Democrats. Good for them.

Boren, D-Muskogee, and others won’t help pass what effectively would be the largest tax increase in U.S. history — and for little or no actual benefit. Pelosi and her allies represent districts so liberal that kind of a vote doesn’t matter. It does in real-world America.
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For what? For minuscule reductions in global temperature, even as China and India run their economies full bore!

Pelosi might get her victory. Thank goodness for the U.S. Senate.

Reason Foundation - Out of Control Policy Blog > The Real Climate Change Deniers

Why this turn around? Because for the last 10 years, the earth's temperatures have remained essentially flat. And over the next 10, some credible studies have actually predicted a cooling.

One does not have to believe that global warming is a total hoax to concede that its claims need further investigation before action. Denying dissenters a voice never serves the cause of science. Ask Galileo. [Via Skeptic's Corner]