Climate Sceptics having a field day : Canadian Election 2008

# Skeptics are very tenacious, dedicated and competent at what they do.
# Skeptics are very well funded.
# The public is very ignorant of how science actually works.
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We may have a way to go before we see street riots for climate action, at least in the west.

MUST SEE: Inhofe Says IPCC Suffers from a Crisis of Confidence on Fox Business | Climate Realists

Flexi-fuel drivers left high and dry after Government subsidy U-turn - Times Online

Drivers who took the Government’s advice and chose a low-emission car could be left with a white elephant after a U-turn by ministers.

Britain’s biggest supplier of biofuels will announce today that it is closing its pumps because the Government is ending financial support from April.

It is the second time in five years that the Government has changed its mind and cancelled subsidies after encouraging motorists to invest in a particular type of green car.

ABC The Drum - Journalists weather the changing climate

So why are their views being overwhelmed, in the public arena, by the tiny number of 'sceptics' with scientific credentials, and their non-scientist supporters?

The simple answer, it seems to me, is that it's been the doubters who've had the passion, and the commitment.

Think what you will of the Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt, he's industrious. He starts posting on his blog at around 6:00am, and his last posts are often past midnight. If there's truth in Annabel Crabb's famous observation that he cherry-picks articles from the University of East Bumcrack, he does so repeatedly, and obsessively, and to his growing army of devoted fans, convincingly. He's made global warming his specialty. He knows far more about the science than most other journalists, environment reporters included.

EU Referendum: It's only weather

The latest snowstorm to hit the Mid-Atlantic has made this the snowiest winter on record in Baltimore and Washington.

As of 2 p.m., there were 54.9 inches recorded at Reagan National Airport in Washington. That's a half-inch above the previous record from the 1898-1899 season.

The New War on Science [Fraud] –Now It’s Guerilla Style | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

However, what I and many others failed to anticipate was that a kind of guerilla war on science–and especially climate science–would take its place, driven by blogs like Climate Depot and Watts Up With That. This war springs from the same politics, but it is coming from those who are out in the wilderness, rather than running the government.