Debra Saunders - "When the Warmest in History Isn't"

"When it comes to global warming, newspapers play up stories that reinforce the prevalent the-sky-is-falling belief that global warming is human-caused and catastrophic. But if a study or scientist does not portend the end of the world as we know it, it rarely rates as news...

No wonder, David Bellamy -- an Australian botanist who was involved in some 400 TV productions, only to see his TV career go south after he questioned global warming orthodoxy -- wrote in The Australian last week, 'It's not even science anymore; it's anti-science.' Bellamy notes that official data show that 'in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased.' Exhibit B: Richard S. Lindzen, the MIT Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, recently wrote, 'There has been no warming since 1997 and no statistically significant warming since 1995.'

Such findings rarely are reported, even as, Marc Morano, communications director for the Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee told me, 'Scientists keep coming out of the woodwork' to challenge the so-called consensus. 'It's almost like a bandwagon effect.'"