text: Of relevance to the previous thread on epistemology of disagreement, it seems that Morano et al. have taken the IPCC strategy of consensus and letters to Congress and turned it around on the IPCC with dissent and a large number of signatories that seem credible, at least on the surface, in terms of academic qualifications etc. Morano is a very clever politician, he is attempting to beat the IPCC at their own game.