On the Edge of Permafrost Crash « Climate Denial Crock of the Week
"Lord" Monckton (who is not a lord, but claims to be - and he says he was a science adviser to Thatcher, but he was not) says he has a cure for AIDS, and the common cold, and he is a birther. He is a journalist (supposedly) and he own(ed) a shirt shop.
As the Frontline program showed that Dr. (Small?) has doubted at least three other things in the past, and all of those turned out to be true. And the fellow from the Cato Institute knows who signs his checks.
Most all the Congressmen who deny anthropogenic climate change believe that the earth is just 9,000 years old - or that there is a controversy about how old the earth is, and/or they don't believe in evolution, and/or they believe that a woman who is "legitimately raped" can prevent the pregnancy by shutting down her body. Todd Akin was on the House science committee...
Over 97% of all climate scientists agree with the conclusion that humans burning fossil fuel is what is largely driving the current changes in the climate. Most if not all of the predictions about the future that we have now seen data - were too conservative. We have seen more and faster warming, melting, ocean rise, and as the permafrost study I referred to above shows that the methane and carbon dioxide from the melting tundra (permafrost it ain't!) is going to add ~39% more carbon; when they thought earlier that it would be negligible.
The
huge ice study I posted earlier also shows land ice melt much more quickly than we thought earlier that it would.
The feedbacks are starting to happen earlier than they thought, as well. So we are in for a very bumpy ride.