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Heartland Institute Responds to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | Somewhat Reasonable

The senator claims, without citing a source, that “more than 95 percent of climate scientists are convinced that human carbon pollution is causing massive and unprecedented change to our atmosphere and oceans.” This is untrue, as anyone familiar with the debate knows. I’ve discussed the myth of consensus here and here.

The senator claims “a lot of those five-percenters [skeptics] are on the payroll of the polluters. You know that. It’s public knowledge. Some of those ‘payroll scientists’ are the same people who denied acid rain, or the dangers of tobacco.” This is shameful. Tens of thousands of scientists, probably most scientists, don’t believe man-made global warming is a crisis or even a problem. Vanishingly few are on the “payroll of polluters,” indeed far fewer than the number of true believers who are on the payrolls of corporations and government agencies that pay them to believe in global warming.

Inhofe on warmists: “They’ve lost their fight. They just don’t know it” | JunkScience.com

“Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) yesterday called rhetorical links between the Moore disaster and global warming “immoral.”

House Dem on weather-climate talk: “It hasn’t worked so far. Nothing we’re doing is working” | JunkScience.com

“It hasn’t worked so far. … Nothing we’re doing is working,” Welch said in an interview this week. “There has to be some confidence that we can solve the problem in a way that builds the economy.”

Bavaria (Germany) summer starts with snow

One week before the beginning of summer it will be winter again in Bavaria (a state in southeast Germany).