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Wall Street Journal by Kimberley Strassel | Jun. 26, 2009 (Opinion)

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. ..The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. -- 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Walter Cox - Jun 26, 2009 - 2:07 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Tanya J. Maurer (review), Walter Cox (review), Terry Gamble (review), William Hughes-Games (review)
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 by Terry Gamble - Jun. 27, 2009

This is an unbalanced opinion piece cherry picking data. It altogether neglects citing the findings of leading NASA scientists.

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 by Walter Cox - Jun. 26, 2009

An excellent analysis of the collapsing "consensus" regarding man-made global warming. As the author makes clear, peer-reviewed scientific research has debunked all the politically correct doomsday scenarios that have been pushed during the last decade--AND the earth's temperatures have not risen for the past eight years.

Hopefully this article will have an impact on the cap-and-trade legislation now being rammed through Congress. To enact such enormously expensive ... More »

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 by William Hughes-Games - Jun. 27, 2009

A good review of the present level of consensus on climate change.

Science is not democracy. What is right is right regardless of how many or few scientists hold a particular opinion. Science history is full of ... More »

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