Tangential to the article, but very related to the overall debate, I thought HN might particularly appreciate Burt Rutan's presentation from Oshkosh '09 on climate change.
He basically starts off "I'm not a climatologist, I've a flight test engineer--but I look at data for a living. Here's my thoughts on all the data I've seen about this debate."
Hm, someone with no relevant knowledge or experience but impressive-sounding credentials, with a clear political bias, who's accusing everyone else of being equally biased, and trying to cast doubt on reasonably well understood science because he doesn't like the conclusions.
No, I'd say that kind of garbage is precisely related to the article.
I swear, if Al Gore were to go on television and tell everyone that the sky is blue, half the country would be lining up to insist that it must be green because blue skies are socialist or something (and if Rush Limbaugh said the sky was blue you'd have the other half denying it instead). Seriously, what is wrong with people that they would rather deny objective reality than compromise their political ideology?
He basically starts off "I'm not a climatologist, I've a flight test engineer--but I look at data for a living. Here's my thoughts on all the data I've seen about this debate."
http://rps3.com/Pages/Burt_Rutan_on_Climate_Change.htm