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  very witty!

  Great post, and thanks for all of the links to relevant articles and related content.

  One quick comment regarding you "Our Changing Weather" paragraph, though. You point to an article that was posted on Gristmill about climate deniers/delayers being given too much media limelight. Then, point to Roger Pielke Jr's "geek-talk" and "Update on Falsification of Climate Predictions" article. Sounded alarming! When I did go to that article, I found the following statement by Mr. Pielke:

  "None of this discussion means that the basic conclusion that greenhouse gases affect the climate system is wrong, or that action to mitigate emissions do not make sense. What it does mean is that we should be concerned about the overselling of climate predictions and the corresponding risks to public credibility and advocacy built upon these predictions."

  The article also highlighted climate variability -- and weather vs. climate. Seems that this post actually makes the same point you do, not a different one -- perhaps just not as blatant and sexy or gripping in its writing.

  Seems a little misguiding to say this person is nay-saying global warming.On One month's worth of data laughable as proof of global cooling posted 1 year, 7 months ago 13 Responses

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  R&D and No Action, Really?

  Hi there,

  I've been reading this debate and have a question to throw out into the blogosphere:

  Do you really think that the Breakthrough Institute supports ONLY R&D for technology breakthroughs -- $30B/year -- and no policy action on global warming?

  After looking at their website, and responses to some of these more recent conversations, it seems that they strongly support R&D, and a lot of it, but certainly are in favor of policy actions directly associated with global warming as well.

  What say you?

  Further, I agree that focusing on changing our energy sources and energy consumption is something that all Americans can connect with, rather than climate change, especially with our economy entering a recession and 81 percent of Americans feeling that our country is headed in the wrong direction (NYTimes article, Friday April 4).On The implicit assumption in Pielke Jr.'s Nature commentary posted 1 year, 7 months ago 38 Responses