Climate Deniers

I found this interesting statistic about climate change today. A Pew Research poll on public opinion of scientists reveals that 84% of scientists in the United States believe that global climate change, or my new favorite --global weirding-- has been fueled by man made actions (ie the burning of fossil fuels). To hear climate change deniers talk about it, one would think that there was little to no consensus on the research about climate change. Some would even suggest that the small but loud minority calling Al Gore's bluff is nearing a majority, or at least a plurality. But, no, the climate is warming, the glaciers and ice sheets are melting (some estimated 150 billion gigatons, that is 150 billion billion tons, of ice is melting and falling away from the Greenland ice sheets and not being replaced each winter by snow), the oceans are rising, and the CO2 in the atmosphere has surpassed levels ever seen on this planet (and mind you, increases in global temperature in historical events always immediately follow increases in CO2 from ocean warming and snow melting), and yet it is just another conspiracy invented by liberals to strengthen Big Brother.