Waxman and his ilk are only able to pass that legislation because of the massive media propaganda wave. If we had honest reporting on environmental stories, people wouldn’t fall for this stuff.
The part about the media playing along is probably the most important part. If no one ever calls these guys on their constant flip flops, the public is just going to continue believing their models are accurate.
> "We need to fight wrong-headedness with clarity and scientific perspective"
You try to fight a political, propaganda war with nothing but reason and common sense, and you're going to lose. People need to understand that. You pin down any scientist in the world (except maybe James Hansen) and listen to them-- they're not claiming the world is about to end. Its the media's propaganda war doing that. We can't "win the war with science" because its never been about science in the first place. It's just propaganda.