After a long weekend of G-N-Ts and staying dry, I think I will bail on this post. Although I will copy all of these as I think they will be useful to dissect at a later point.
To the naysayers, it is unfortunate that there is so much crappola in Science and Nature, it is also problematic that the IPCC has had the issues that it has had. There is good data out there. It is not hard to find.
To the true believers, there was a time in the past that we were in for an ice age.
Climate science is neither exact, nor infallible. But we all need to think very hard about what constitutes an appropriate response to climate variability.
I personally believe that the flying spaghetti monster created all this confusion, and it is time that we gave Him his due.
Alternatively, we could believe that scientists are not trying to sell climate change, as there are so many other things to study. And, that they are trying very hard to understand the ramifications of more than 6 billion people tryng have have mcmansions all around the world.