finally, a reasonable discussion of this issue. For over two years I've heard rumblings from my sience-y friends that GW was being overhyped. I don't know if

finally, a reasonable discussion of this issue. For over two years I've heard rumblings from my sience-y friends that GW was being overhyped. I don't know if anyone had any specific data, but there is some sort of pattern-recognition thing where you just smell that something is fishy. None of this means that human-caused GW isn't a fact -- what it means is that proving it and quantifying it are turning out to be very difficult. What the email scam shows is that people on the 'right' side of the debate (ie proponents of human-caused change) at some point went over a bit to the dark side, and decided that "failure is not an option" -- ends justify means, etc. This saddens me because I don't want 'my' side (liberal, rational, forward-thinking) to be guilty of the same anti-science bullshit that GWB and crew were. If science becomes completely politicized, it will cease to be science. Where will be then?