Earth didn't always breathe easy › Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science (ABC Science)

...The methane was a powerful greenhouse gas, and had been keeping the Earth warm. (The sun was a lot weaker back then.)

Yup, about 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth did get oxygen. And the Earth also cooled down so much that it turned into a giant snowball for about 300 million years.

There was virtually ice from pole to pole.

About 2 billion years ago, the big freeze finished.

American Thinker: [The ultimate scientific insult?: "as bad as the IPCC"]

United States Federal Agency-sponsored research in public health toxicology is as irresponsible and misleading as the IPCC misconduct. Can't imagine anything as bad as the IPCC? How about thirty-plus years of panic-mongering about how the environment is a killer and (from the movie Aliens) "we're gonna die, man, we're all gonna die"?

American Thinker: Science's Big Problem

The scandal is that politics has so enveloped science into its worship of power and its ritual of force that decent practitioners of science like Dr. Judith Curry utterly lack an appreciation of their debasement and their servitude.

Climate change [hoax] is subject of NC workshop | Enquirer-Herald - York and Clover, SC

A man who shared the Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore and others for work on climate change is among the people speaking at a two-day conference on climate change in North Carolina.

Tom Karl is among those scheduled to speak on Tuesday at a climate change workshop in Raleigh. Karl was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won a Nobel Prize. He will make projections about the affects of climate change on the state.