Canada Muzzles Its Scientists; Can the U.S. Be Far Behind?

Holdren’s new nomenclature is one more demonstration of the fundamental scientific weakness of the entire theory of manmade climate change. Given the drubbing the theory has taken the past year, its advocates are now seemingly left with few alternatives but to mount a defense of the theory in its most minimal formulation. In fact, it is hard to see how Holdren’s definition of “global climate disruption” is even scientifically falsifiable; it simply becomes a boogyman for the Age of Aquarius, a catchall "explanation" capable of seizing on isolated environmental or meteorological events and proclaiming their relation to this nebulous “global climate disruption.”

Climate Change Skeptics Sweeping GOP Senate Primaries - NYTimes.com

The swelling rank of skeptics running for office stems from a public backlash against liberals' global warming "alarmism," said Inhofe spokesman Matt Dempsey. Democrats' attempts to pass greenhouse gas limits and the commercial success of Al Gore's climate science movie "An Inconvenient Truth" brought more scrutiny to the issue, Dempsey said.

And then there was "Climategate," the publication last November of a series of private e-mails between British climate scientists that skeptics say exposed holes in climate science and a conspiracy to hide them. The e-mails "vindicated Inhofe and everything he's been saying for the past seven years," Dempsey said. "That's why the bottom fell out on the global warming movement."