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After Climategate and other reports questioning climate change science, many people worldwide are still skeptical about global warming. What would you say to disbelievers to get them to change their minds?
I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths. They don't want you to get off the grid in any sense because then you'd be autonomous and they couldn't make you buy their poison.

Lorne Gunter: The only thing heating up is the debate - Full Comment

The point is, there is no consensus on climate science. There never has been. By flinging names like “deniers” at skeptical scientists, barring them from IPCC deliberations, preventing them from seeing the warmers’ raw climate data and keeping them from having their papers peer reviewed, activists like Mr. Gore and the scientists who agree with them have created an artificial consensus.

While that may be good politics, it is very bad science.

The Insidiousness Of 'Climate Change' | Cattle Network

It’s too bad that an ideology has so pervaded our political structure — and is siphoning off hard-earned taxpayer dollars to support a notion that is currently flying in the face of conventional wisdom and common sense.

Yes, it was a very hard winter.

South African tourism minister nominated for top UN climate job | Environment | guardian.co.uk

De Boer and others have stated that a binding global deal to tackle climate change will not be reached this year at the main annual UNFCCC event in December. That elevates the importance of the 2011 meeting, which will be held in South Africa, perhaps boosting van Schalkwyk's chances.

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Arctic sea ice extent rises to 'normal' range for moment: http://j.mp/IceNorm. Impact of neg. Arctic Oscillation? http://j.mp/iceAOup #agw

[Amusing stuff: Filmmaker Randy Olson claims that climate realists "fear" Ed Begley] - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

And yesterday I interviewed Ed Begley Jr. (what an excellent guy!) which I’ll be posting next week. He went on Fox News in November and gave a head-turning “performance.” The anti-climate science crowd erupted with rage on their blogs, and, as he tells it, he got up to 50 hate e-mails an hour in the days afterward. But that’s only because they detected an actual formidable communications force. Basically they love Joe Romm (just ask Morano), they fear someone like Ed Begley.

I wish it were as simple as just analyzing the situation endlessly and eventually coming up with some cool and subtle strategy where nobody ever had to get dirty. But I’m afraid there’s going to be a lot more Climategates in the near future.

Flashback: what Gore's useful idiot Ed Begley Jr doesn't get about the 'peer review' process – Telegraph Blogs

Anyway, the reason I show you that first footage from Fox News – apart from the fact that it’s funny – is to show you an example of how obsessed Warmists are with the notion of “Peer review.” Note how Ed repeats it, mantra-like, to ward off any possible suggestion that the scientists supporting his bomb-the-global-economy-back-to-the-stone-age cause might be wrong. How can they be? They’re peer-reviewed-peer-reviewed-peer-reviewed.

Here’s what poor Ed doesn’t get. It’s perhaps the single most important fact to emerge from the Climategate scandal. Peer-review is dead. Meaningless. Utterly void of credibility. More irredeemably defunct than a Norwegian Blue.