[Lack of global warming hits North Dakota game birds]

Upland game biologist Aaron Robinson says both bird species were hurt by the harsh winter and wet spring. He says the four inches of snow that fell in southwestern North Dakota on June 6 also had an impact.

Bill Wallace: Global warming

So, to believe that climate change is one big hoax as postulated by William Gray at the Freedom Conference last week, one would have to believe in the existence of a worldwide conspiracy perpetrated on virtually all of the recognized scientific and technical institutions that have standing and expertise in these matters. This would be a conspiracy of gargantuan proportions, sort of like any episode of the X Files you ever saw times a million.

Or maybe groupthink, ideology and perverse incentives have helped to prop up the greatest scientific fraud in human history.