Agreeing with Allen, more than 700 international scientists dissent over man-made global warming claims. They are now more than 13 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers. http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/3562/218/

Additionally, more than 31,000 U.S. scientists have signed onto a petition that states, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…” http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html

You must be unaware of the vast, well-funded climate denial industry which has been actively trying to create confusion around the truth of climate science for nearly two decades. You can go to the Union of Concerned Scientists website, www.ucs.org, and download their chilling report: "Smoke Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science."

The 31,000 signatures you mentioned (or is it 30,999 + 1 dog) was the work of another industry funded organization: The Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine. You can find out all about it and the "Oregon Petition," they're responsible for at http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine.

It should go without saying that the challenges we face in the area of climate and energy are unprecedented on every level and it is easy to understand why so many reach for the comforting "truthiness" omnipresent on the Internet -- the place where lies never die. Clearly you have done so, but as an adult you would set a better example by being grown up enough to admit that you've been punked and cease cooperating with those whose are motivated only by short term profit and are quite prepared to destroy the future of at least 50 generations of our descendents to improve their bottom line.

Returning to the subject of Senator Allen's new found courage, I admit that it is possible for a known racist and anti-Semite to turn over a new leaf. This effort, however, is very far from that.