Shawn Lawrence Otto: Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America

Mann has become a political taget because he helped create the "hockey stick" graph, which shows global temperatures stable for a thousands of year and spiking since about 1950. It has the iconic power of e=mc2, and discrediting him has become the holy grail of climate change deniers.

A big speech: Matt Ridley on scientific heresy and the temptations of confirmation bias « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

We’ve won. It’s a mark of the times that one of the most popular, well known and respected science commentators is willing to to put his reputation and effort into laying out such controversial science publicly, pulling no punches and in a potentially hostile environment. Compare this to the obituaries of “global warming” from believers.

Edward Flattau: GOP Debate Dead Zone

Journalist moderators should not be deterred from requesting the candidates to elaborate how they would deal with rising sea levels as well as more intense incidences of drought, flooding, and heat waves, all of which have increased dramatically in the past decade.