Another article, called The Truth About Denial, this time regarding global warming.

Current pollsters indicate that the average person still thinks that there’s significant scientific controversy over global warming. While Mr. Gore tried to rebuke that in An Inconvenient Truth by pointing to actual scientific papers, of course he’d say that, what with his agenda* and all, right?

The article’s a bit of a long one, but it’s an interesting trip through the politicization of the global warming debate. Just goes to show what a few (hundred million) well-placed lobby dollars can do to essentially create an entirely independant reality with little bearing to our own.

Little dose of reality, just to help you sleep at night:

This summer, Texas was hit by exactly the kind of downpours and flooding expected in a greenhouse world, and Las Vegas and other cities broiled in record triple-digit temperatures. Just last week the most accurate study to date concluded that the length of heat waves in Europe has doubled, and their frequency nearly tripled, in the past century. The frequency of Atlantic hurricanes has already doubled in the last century. Snowpack whose water is crucial to both cities and farms is diminishing. It’s enough to make you wish that climate change were a hoax, rather than the reality it is.

* Such a dirty word, isn’t it?