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This week brings us to the one-year mark since the global warming industry experienced ClimateGate. That release of emails and computer code and annotations was less a wooden stake through the heart of 'climate science' (there is apparently no 'blue dress moment', as I wrote at the time that would cause the US media to stop covering for the movement), but more like stepping on a rusty old nail whose impact will prove fatal in the end.

Ever adaptable, they are opting to proceed through the social sciences, analyizing and hopefully marginalizing us skeptics they just can't get away with, er, 'denying' anymore. This is probably the latest cover for their ritual ad hominem, which is all you've got when you can't make a persuasive substantive case. We'll see, as a proliferation of hints about other such overtures indicates a considered strategic move. But I write about their opening salvo, as reported in yesterday's NYT and focusing on yours truly, in the Daily Caller, here.

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Barbara| 11.16.10 @ 4:24PM

You know they're desperate when they enlist Christopher Hitchens!
In an op-ed entitled "The Skeptic's Skeptic, unavailable online, Mickey Schermer praises Hitchens:
"The dialectical usefulness of clear logic, coupled to clear prose (layered on top of the usual dollop of data), cannot be overstated and should be considered by scientists as another instrument of persuasion in the battle for ideas."

sarah| 11.17.10 @ 11:59AM

the GOP has its Deep South Firewall. The Dems have New York and California. Obama won Virginia and Ohio in 2008. McCain lost Indiana. The GOP candidate to win must win Virginia, Ohio, and most probably Pennsylvania without losing states like West Virginia or Florida. It would help to pick up either a Colorado, Wisconsin, or Michigan. Can any of these canidates pull that off?
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