The scientific consensus is strong and clear: heat-trapping gases emitted by humans since the industrial revolution are warming the planet. Here’s a good report on the state of climate science, produced by more than 300 scientists from 160 research groups in 48 countries.

Here’s a striking global temperature graph from NASA.

Here’s a study (available for free download) on the credibility of climate scientists on both sides of the “debate” over man-made global warming. It found that 97–98% of the most active and respected researchers in the field agree that human activities are warming our planet; it also found that “the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC [anthropogenic climate change] are substantially below that of the convinced researchers.”

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

They could be being paid off by GE, Big Oil and other international corporations who stand to make big money if Cap and Tax is implemented. Or they could be ideologues, like many world leaders who have declared over the last 30 years, that they support the anti-AGW movement whether AGW is true or not because it is a good motto on which to promote Redistribution of Wealth and Global Government.

JMW – you are about as naïve on McCarthy as you are on AGW as are your fellow travelers who have been indoctrinated, not educated. Google The Venona Papers!

Are you guy’s for real That is the most bias statement I’ve ever read on this site I guess i now know which mag i’ll not renew this time shame on you for losing your science to go into pushing one side of a science that is not settled at all!!!

You are right, CO2 does not affect asthma perhaps, but all the other soots, chemical compounds, dusts, heavy metals, etc that come with the abuse of fossil fuels do, in fact, affect asthma and host of other diseases. This obsession over CO2, and people forget about all the other, much nastier compounds lingering in the air, environment, their blood streams, etc from our wasteful, sloppy use of resources. Of course, climate is important, ice caps, polar bears, but that has taken focus away from all the other crud we are still allowing into the environment that I feel is much worse for our biological web than CO2 and a few degrees, they are just tied together, a vast reduction in fossil fuel use will mean a vast reduction in chemical pollutants.

Regardless, I don’t want bible thumping, obese, close minded, “know it all” Texans meddling in what California does.

The day after Prop 23 is voted down, how ironic;
Fremont-based solar panel maker Solyndra Inc. is scrapping its expansion plans.

The company said Wednesday it has decided against enlarging its new Fremont plant and will close another factory in the San Francisco Bay area.

Company spokesman David Miller tells the Oakland Tribune Solyndra needs to cut production costs amidst fierce competition from rival manufacturers in China and elsewhere in the United States.

The company plans to eliminate 155 to 175 jobs at its Fremont site and cap its workforce at about a 1,000 people.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/04/state/n063849D07.DTL#ixzz14Mqo8euj

…if a Republican-controlled House convenes a series of hearings into climate science, the result could be a backlash if they become to McCarthyistic.