[Lancey Howard]

It was worth chuckling my way through this whole exercise in handwringing for this nugget:

Another newly minted GOP skeptic, Illinois’s Mark Kirk...

It's the first I heard that Kirk had come to his senses. It's very encouraging.

[TXnMA]

I would be glad to have Mr. Bradford Plumer debate my fifth (now sixth) grade granddaughter on the subject. She did so well (as a fifth grader) at convincing the judges that AGW was "bad science" that she took top science fair honors in the regional science fair -- over several hundred fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade competitors.

C'mon Plumer -- let's see if you can hold your own with a middle school girl... (Just give me the popcorn concession...) '-)

[Intolerant in NJ]

The skeptic explains how, once upon a time, he, too, blindly accepted everything climatologists have to say about how human activity is heating the planet. But then, as he began to pore over the evidence, the holes in the theory became readily apparent, and, more in sorrow than anger, the skeptic had to conclude that the scientific consensus was mistaken...Try it, you'll like it Mr. Plumer......

[TXnMA]

And why is it the dumb@$$ eco-weenies insist on illustrating articles on carbon dioxide -- or nuclear energy -- with photos of

mere cooling towers -- dumping nothing but water vapor?

[Zeppo]

if the agency found that those gases pose a threat to public health and welfare (which, most scientists agree, they do)

But that is certainly a false statement. Go ahead, foolish Bradford Plumer, try to prove that most scientists agree that CO2 (which is vital to life on the planet Earth) poses a threat to public health and welfare...

Another over-educated ignoramus who can't tell the difference between science and politics and religion...

[goldstategop]

I can spell out carbon caps in four words for liberals to understand: low standard of living.

This is what they want to support the hoax called climate change!

[bert]

Because he could find no smokestacks, the author chose to issustrate his piece with cooling towers. Cooling towers don’t pollute and don’t emit carbon. Cooling towers are the sybbol of nuclear power and therefore bad so something bad is ok even if it is a lie

The author lied

[Condor51]

Bradford Plumer
Looking at this *kid*. His pic reminds of that old saying someone famous once said:

Youth is wasted on the young.

Or to put it another way...

Go Away Son, You Bother Me.

[sauropod]

The Climategate reviews were (at least in one case) done by rigged panels with a vested interest in the outcome, IIRC.

[Arrowhead1952]

And, in his own opening statement, an exasperated Representative Henry Waxman of California tried to warn his fellow Republicans,

Smart writer there. I needed a good laugh this morning.

[MrB]

You know what’s really funny and ironic about the picture in the article?

They obviously are trying to say that that “smoke” coming out of those towers is “pollution” that is causing climate change.

It’s doubly ironic that the “smoke” is really just water vapor from cooling towers, but that [naturally produced] water vapor makes up somewhere on the order of 98% of the “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere.