'There's no global warming' - Leeds United chairman - Yorkshire Evening Post

Outspoken Leeds United chairman Ken Bates has sparked a heated row – by denying that climate change exists.
In his recent programme notes, Mr Bates described the issue as one of the "three big scams of the 21st century", likening the apparent crisis to the Millennium Bug scare and the threatened swine flu epidemic.
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"Global warming is bunk and promulgated by charlatans who cook the figures and suppress the facts."

The Breakthrough Institute: Why Joe Romm Won't Debate Roger Pielke Jr.

[By Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger] At this point there was no way out for Romm. Confronted by Revkin, Romm cannot sustain the claim that Pielke has been debunked. Confronted by commenters eager to see a debate, Romm cannot sustain the claim that a debate would be boring. Now, having just boasted of his debates with Morano and Fox News hosts, Romm cannot in good faith claim he doesn't debate his opponents.

By the end of the thread Romm had stopped replying to the comments and had gone back to censoring them.

More heat than light | The Australian

Georges Monbiot has lamented recently, in the wake of the Copenhagen conference, that "climate scepticism" is "spreading like an infectious disease". He may or may not be right, but his attitude is dead wrong. The AGW hypothesis is, in the nature of the case contestable, a claim based on highly complex data. Where inferences from the data or the reliability of the data itself seem unclear or tendentious, scepticism is completely natural.

But more importantly, scepticism is the life blood of science and democracy. Those who sincerely believe AGW is threatening civilisation should themselves be as rigorously sceptical as possible. They should be soliciting challenges to their data and inferences. That's what the scientific method is and it doesn't end because someone, scientist or otherwise, feels certain of their ground. It goes on and we need it to do so.

Dance off: DeLay reveals 'Dancing with the Stars' dream team | Washington Examiner

"I think Al Gore probably doesn't have anything else to do anymore, since global warming has been pretty discredited," DeLay said, laughing.