PostPartisan - Why are climate scientists losing the American public?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/why_are_climate_scientists_los.html

Americans are having trouble telling the difference between relatively small criticisms of the science or scientists -- minor mistakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report or the release of overheated private exchanges among a few climate scientists, for example -- and the solid case for the bottom-line on global warming: that it's extremely likely it's happening, it's extremely likely that it's at least partially our fault, and, if unabated, it's extremely likely to have some rather unpleasant consequences.