I, Global Warming Skeptic I am a global warming skeptic. Politically, I land somewhere in the libertarian/conservative camp. If liberal still meant what it did sixty years ago I'd probably be one of those. Whatever my label, I am not a progressive/socialist kind of guy. I wrote on my own blog a long time ago that I needed to be convinced that warming was happening at all, then that people were causing it, and then that it was actually a bad thing. I have many good reasons to be skeptical about AGW (anthropogenic global warming). I'm old enough to remember "Global Cooling", the population bomb, the hole in the ozone, and any number of other tidings of doom. The Chicken Littles have a track record indistinguishable from that of Harold Camping . The issue is massively politicized. The Left has seized on it as an opportunity to dismantle free markets and grow government. They have entangled it with their beliefs the way creationists entangle evolution with religion. That amount of politicization brings corrupting quantities of money. The IPCC was formed by the United Nations. The UN is a systemically-corrupt, left-wing political organization. Any organization that coddles dictators and thugs should not be trusted even if it claims the sky is blue. Anybody who didn't just fall off the turnip truck can see "cap and trade" and carbon credit markets for the bald-faced scams they are. Climate science is very complicated, and there are any number of legitimate questions having to