Canadians’ ‘Veggie Van’ nears end of record-setting green odyssey

And while she said that their aim was never to get into arguments with people who had different ideas about climate change, encountering criticism gave them a chance to confirm their actions and values.

“We’ve done so many presentations where people get excited about our message,” said Whittaker. “When someone does challenge us, that’s when we get excited.”

Both Whittaker and Jerry took environmental studies at university in Victoria.

Partisan Pairings at Tonight’s Correspondents’ Dinner - Washington Wire - WSJ

Or get in a big made-for-blogging scream-fest. A memorable instance of the latter occurred in 2007, when rocker Sheryl Crow and a colleague confronted White House adviser Karl Rove at the dinner over the Bush administration’s global warming policy. (“Anger flaring, Mr. Rove immediately regurgitated the official administration position on global warming, which is that the US spends more on researching the causes than any other country,” Crow wrote later on Huffington Post. “We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in (www.IPCC.ch). Mr. Rove exploded with even more venom….”)

'Utter honesty' needed from climate scientists | OregonLive.com

A recent editorial in the journal Nature admits that implicated scientists are scared. They know that honest mistakes are typically forgiven but fraud is not. The editorial urges them to fight back with a war of words: "The core science supporting anthropogenic global warming has not changed." Such a bluff can succeed only if the public remains ignorant that the core is rotten.
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All plants and animals owe their very existence to carbon dioxide.
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Gordon J. Fulks of Corbett holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago, Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research.