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hardly anyone disputes "Climate Change" that would be silly, but....

After a quarter-century of wildly alarmist predictions that have failed to pan out--often with specific dates now in the past--we'd say the five-point decline Frank cites is dismayingly low. And while Al Gore isn't a scientist, the Climategate scandal showed that some scientists are no more scrupulous than he is.

"What has been lost," Frank writes, "is an understanding that science's open-ended, evidence-based processes--rather than just its results--are essential to meeting [mankind's] challenges." Just so. It has been lost in no small part because scientists and others claiming the authority of science have given their political objectives priority over the patient empiricism of the scientific method--and even, as in Gore's case, over basic veracity.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324619504579028920138950330

anytime it is said the debate is over ----- debate

“It’s no secret that President Obama is not a fan of coal or traditional forms of energy. He’s been targeting them with red tape and regulations his entire presidency. That may benefit some people in alternative energy who have a hard time producing ample low-cost energy without government help and the president’s supporters that like it when he goes around the representatives of people who may not share their views, but it’s not going to improve the environment much. People will pay more for electricity and the economy will suffer so the president can increase his popularity with people who already favor his policies.

“When you try and put coal out of business, you’re not just targeting the economy, you’re targeting consumers. They’re the ones who are left paying the higher energy bills when all the abundant and affordable energy is off-limits thanks to misplaced priorities. It’s essentially an energy tax. The last thing we should be doing in this economy when so many Americans are out of work is make the bare essentials more expensive.”
http://www.enzi.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ContentRecord_id=560c3695-6f54-494b-8c7e-f1a5df0b95fd

http://isthereglobalcooling.com/

http://climateknowledge.org/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/climate/20ctrend.htm