an engineer, I'm offended that so called scientists can keep lying about the data. I'm even more that those science whizzes Gore and Obama can actually be taken seriously by anyone with a hint of reason. Richard Baker | 12.7.09 @ 11:52AM The UN and academia are full of grant whores and confidence men. The Pandora's Box is open on these Frauds and they can't put their lies back. The certainty of a Ph.D is that someone, somewhere will fund the "research", such as it is. Or should I say "A Fool and his money are soon parted?" Adam Smith | 12.7.09 @ 12:34PM Allen G | 12.7.09 @ 12:40PM I've thought for a long time, and this has pretty well set it in mental concrete for me, that the Government has no business providing grants for any research other than that directly related to Defense projects (Manhattan Project -good, Climate Change - bad). Then, if someone really really really believed the sky was falling, he could convince a corporation that it could make trillions of dollars on preventing said apocolypse and they'd fund his research. At least, then, we'd know the researcher's bias when we read any reports. Dima | 12.8.09 @ 6:31PM Dacron Mather | 12.10.09 @ 12:23AM Oh great Engineer Owyheewine , thank you for advising us " the theory violates the laws of thermodynamics." and "the models use flawed 1920's equations to calculate how heat is radiated away when the sun goes down," Now could you