Quoted as saying: Maher

We need a debate about it [whether vaccinations actually work and are safe]. The science is not settled. I was attacked for saying we should look into this, and I don't believe in it, and lots of people feel the same way. This is not settled science like global warming.

Superfreakonomics on climate, part 1 - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

What you had in the 70s was a few scientists advancing the cooling hypothesis, and a few popular media stories hyping their suggestions. To the extent that there was a consensus, it was that there wasn’t much evidence for anything, and more research was needed.

What you have today is a massive research program involving thousands of scientists and many peer-reviewed publications, with all major international bodies agreeing that man-made global warming is real. You can, if you insist, dismiss it all as a gigantic hoax or whatever — but it’s nothing like the isolated 70s speculations about cooling.

Copenhagen, it's not about climate change

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper once famously described the Kyoto Protocol as “a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.”

Mr. Harper is still facing criticism over those remarks, yet if he were to use them today to describe the proposed follow-up agreement to Kyoto, he'd be entirely accurate and supporters of the deal are not denying it, although some might object to the word socialist.

Andrew Leonard - It's official: The media no longer believes in global warming

I don't think one can really make any determination, official or unofficial, as to whether the media has lost its faith in the theory of man-made global warming. But what we can say is that, just as we have seen with healthcare reform, the near certainty that legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gases is imminent has also driven the special interests whose oxen will soon be gored into a last-gasp fever-driven explosion of propaganda that is day by day ever further divorced from reality. This boiling over of paid-for-and-delivered climate-skeptic insanity is hard to ignore -- thus, perhaps, the sense that we are seeing it reflected more frequently in the media.

Carbon [scam] pays off for Alberta farmers

Fifteen years ago, the 6,100-hectare operation changed to no-till agriculture to increase its productivity.

Never did they imagine they would be able to cash in on climate change.

But the birth of the carbon market is now generating tens of thousands of dollars of unexpected income.

"I didn't even know that this stuff can happen. It's just a bonus," says Waldner, 60, who's headed the colony's agricultural operations for two decades.