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Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It’s time to lay that misapprehension to rest. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth’s climate is being affected by human activities, and most of the “observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.” Major changes are taking place in the Arctic, affecting both human and nonhuman communities, as predicted by climate models. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it. — Naomi Oreskes, the Washington Post

More than 650 scientists from around the world dispute the claims made by the United Nations and former Vice President Al Gore about global warming, saying that science does not support that climate change is a man-made phenomenon, according to a posting on the Senate environmental committee’s press blog. I’ve found that you’ve really got to pay close attention to how people talk about global warming or climate change. Most scientists agree that climate change indeed is occurring — they just differ on the reason why it is occurring. As for myself, I’m no scientist (or a Nobel Prize-winning former vice president), but I think that if you’re trying to find out why things are heating up, the sun would be a good place to start, especially since there’s plenty of scientific data showing that the Earth has been running hot and cold for thousands of years. — Carleton Bryant, GlobalClimateScam.com