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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 »
Posted by Walter Cox - via Opinion Source
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 cases in which the minority turned out to be correct. It might be more useful to look at the consequensis of being wrong. If we believe in sudden catastrophic climate change and we are wrong, we will have taken some useful steps to, for instance, reduce our use of fossil fuels which quite frankly are far to valuable to burn. If we don't believe in sudden catastrophic climate change and are wrong, our world population could well be down to half a billion in a few decades. I vote for acting as if imminent sudden climate change is a reality.