Freezing Thailand

A sudden drop in temperature to as low as 17C yesterday morning has prompted many people to don their cold-weather clothes. According to the Meteorological Department, the unseasonable cold snap will last until next Wednesday after which summer will set in. The chill has nothing to do with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the weather bureau said.

‘Merchants of doubt' cloud climate change debate | AspenTimes.com

Oreskes, a science historian, said “merchants of doubt” have out-hustled scientists and environmentalists to steer the perception of climate change.

Those merchants are a handful of accomplished, well-connected scientists who have teamed with conservative think tanks and big corporations with money at stake in the debate. Combined, they have effectively clouded issues surrounding climate change and planted seeds of doubt among the public, she said.
...They are a loose-knit handful of scientists who served their country during the Cold War. They are famous for work in such areas as nuclear weapons.
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Oreskes has performed research that concludes there is vast scientific consensus on the reality of climate change. It's essentially 1 percent of the scientists who reside in the “dark corner” that discount it, according to her website. Nevertheless, the doubt mongers have effectively coerced journalists into providing equal time.

The American Spectator : The Overrated Five

4. The Debating Skills of Al Gore. Like Orson Welles' cardboard characterization of Charles Foster Kane, this myth is stiff, boring and unconvincing. As I wrote some years ago, "In the run-up to the 2000 election, pundit after pundit warned that the veep's ace in the hole would be his utter domination of the tongue-tied cowboy when they squared off in the debate arena. Many on the right agreed, fretting fearfully that all would be lost once the candidates toed the rostrum rubber..."

The American Spectator : Michael Mann Goes to the Zoo

It looks like Penn State and Mann only got a small fraction of this grant, but clearly the opportunity to create future alarmists was not to be passed up. The plan is to spend three years blanketing zoos across America to try and understand the psyches of visitors, preach climate propaganda, and convert them to the cause.