For two decades, progressives have castigated those questioning global warming as "deniers."

But the Economist, once firmly in the alarmist camp, recently acknowledged that global temperatures have remained stagnant for 15 years even as greenhouse-gas emissions have soared.

This may be because existing models have overestimated the planet's sensitivity. Or because the heat generated is sinking to the ocean bottom. Or because of something else completely.

How should a scientifically inclined liberal react to this trend? By inhaling deeply and backing off on economy-busting mitigation measures till science offers clearer answers.

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Deeply impressed, I was even expecting him to show me another set of graphs that would prove my solar panels would result in a dramatic increase in the population of polar bears because of reduced global warming.

For just over £5,000, he said, it would all be mine.

At a time when the country faces blackouts as power stations are shut to meet EU green targets and when green levies will add at least two per cent to electricity bills every year until 2020, I felt it was churlish not to do my bit.

So, with self-effacing grace and charm, Charles accepted my grovelling thanks and a cheque for £5,000.

Source-WikimediaDespite the propaganda, despite the outright hysteria drummed out by a large slice of the Global Warming Crisis Community, world average temperatures have not risen for over 10 years. Reading the politically correct press or watching government-friendly TV news you might not know it - but it is true. The global warming guru cartel of "warmist" well-paid talking heads has broken apart.

The guru talkers included Britain's Sir James Lovelock, who in 2006 screamed in the politically correct UK press that "Billions will die from global warming before the end of the century". The very same 'Jimbo' Lovelock, today, accuses the "warmists" of outright and shameful exaggeration.

Another 'Jimbo, James Hansen, presently described as a "former NASA scientist" was an equal-rank global "warmist" guru with Lovelock. This 'Jimbo' in 2007 could scream that "Trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death". Hansen now talks about the biosphere absorbing more CO2, growing faster than previous, and this explains why global average temperatures are not increasing. He calls it "biosphere fertilization by CO2".

…The radical environmental movement is in transition.

Chris Foreman, a progressive writing for The Breakthrough Institute, says the more leftist environmentalists have taken a cue from advocates of the social and economic justice movements.

This incarnation of environmentalism links the impacts of climate change with global poverty.

The theory goes that if the effects of global warming create an even greater hardship on the world's poor, there is an even more critical moral imperative to replace carbon-based energy with green alternatives, while imposing a more even global economic playing field.

President Obama's grassroots campaign group has opened a campaign to belittle House Speaker John Boehner and GOP global warming critics, describing the climate change "deniers" as crazy, tin foil hat wearing believers in unicorns.

In three successive emails to supporters, Jim Messina, Obama's reelection campaign manager who now runs the president's Organizing for Action operation, portrayed Boehner and other Republican leaders as far out of step with the science of global warming, a harsh approach that is spoiling chances of a compromise on the issue.

Being a good mother.This Sunday is Mother's Day here in the United States so posting will be lighter than usual. From a news standpoint, though, it's been a busy week. From Benghazi-gate to the Cleveland kidnappers to Obama's Organizing for Action memo calling global-warming skeptics "crazy" purveyors of "far-fetched conspiracy theories."

Not to mention the lazy, hazy, predictions we keep hearing from the should-be-defunct NASA and NOAA. Now it’s your turn to introduce topics, rebuttals, and questions for discussion.

Britain must abandon its bias towards green policies or face an energy crisis, a key parliamentary adviser has warned. Peter Lilley, a member of the Prime Minister's Parliamentary Advisory board, has warned that the UK's hesitance to embrace shale gas comes at great expense to the country. He claims that the green lobby is in control of the Department for Energy, dominates the EU and is institutionalised in Whitehall via the Climate Change Committee. He also accuses them of deploying "scare stories with reckless disregard for the truth" on a scale comparable to the MMR scare. --Amy Willis, The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2013

The scandal of official reluctance to develop Britain’s shale gas potential is at last beginning to surface. It may prove to be the dress rehearsal for the ultimate drama — the inexorable collapse of our whole energy strategy. The battle over shale gas is only the prelude to the impending energy crisis if we continue to pursue the government decarbonisation agenda. Greens in and out of government imagine that if shale gas can be kept in the ground or little is recoverable, decarbonising the British economy will be plain sailing. As imported gas becomes ever more expensive, the alternatives will grow cheaper by comparison. –Peter Lilley, The Spectator, 9 May 2013

 Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world's most important scientist.   He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine.  That doctrine has always been dubious and is often defended by attacking the integrity of anyone who dares to raise questions.  Spencer is a rare combination of a brilliant scientist and a brave soul willing to risk his livelihood and reputation by speaking plainly.

The global warming promoters say we must scrap the world's energy infrastructure in favor of green energy.  They say that burning coal, oil and natural gas adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and that will cause a global warming disaster.  The global warming believers demand a massive investment in uneconomic windmills and solar energy.  Their demands are not exactly sincere, because their program is a utopian fantasy that will never be implemented on the scale needed to achieve the ostensible objectives. 

In typical turn-the-table strategy President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action team has set the unicorns loose on global warming.

In a generic email to ‘Friend’, Ivan Frishberg, Climate Campaign Manager for Organizing for Action gets creative in the email subject line: “Unicorns exist**”

“If I said to you: “Unicorns exist, I totally just saw one galloping down the street,” most likely you’d give me a sad look and get on with your day,” Frishberg wrote.  “But what if House Speaker Boehner and the chairman of the House Science Committee said they didn’t know if the science behind climate change was real.  (Yeah.  That actually happened).”

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, and such is certainly the case coming out of San Jose State University, where two environmentalist professors took a match to an anti-global warming book – plus a photo of their little exercise - leaving an image that clearly illustrates the state of science-based academic freedom on college campuses nationwide.

The image appeared on the university’s official Department of Meteorology and Climate Science webpage, no less.

The academics who took flame to page are Dr. Alison Bridger, chairwoman of the university’s meteorology department, as well as Assistant Professor Craig Clements. The offending book? The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania.