While I appreciate Mr. Samuelson's scepticism, I am in turn sceptical of his possible solutions, i.e.: 

What to do about global warming is a quandary. Certainly, more research and development. Advances in underground storage of carbon dioxide, battery technology (for plug-in hybrid cars), biomass or nuclear power could alter energy economics. To cut oil imports, I support a higher gasoline tax—$1 to $2 a gallon, introduced gradually—and higher fuel-economy standards for vehicles. These steps would also temper greenhouse-gas emissions. Drilling for more domestic natural gas (a low-emission fuel) would make sense. 

Oil too, Mr. Samuelson?  Anwar?  While some of the advanced technologies you think will help may be promising, they are certainly not at the stage where they are practical yet.  So how do we get around in the meantime?  Mandated Late Rail transit systems?  Forced car pooling?  In the meantime, until the marketplace brings those technologies forward, we need oil & gas, and relying on the rest of the world (Middle East/Venezuela/Russia for example) in a competitive atmosphere that includes China & India is not our best option.  And while we are at it, when are Newsweek, etc. going to call for "developing" countries like China & India to follow the same advice they advocate for America?

My final question is:  when are we going to kill ManBearPig?  While the MSM is out running around worrying about global warming, MBP is wreaking havoc on our unsuspecting poupulation.  Even Al Bore has been diverted from this hunt.  This is serial! 

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

Dissent is, or should be, the lifeblood of a free society.

Not only that but..

The default position of science and scientists is skepticism.

And, as the prevailing orthodoxy at present (or so we are constantly told by logic deniers) is that man is responsible for any so-called rise in the average temperature of the planet...

Then it is actually the DUTY of scientists to be skeptical about this hypothosis and attempt to disprove this rather counter-intuitive, and frankly astounding, theory.

What logic deniers like Al Gore don't understand about people insist on thinking for themselves about things is this:  the more they attempt to stifle research, the more free-thinking citizens ask a simple question... what are they trying to hide?

What sort of person would even adopt this ridiculous position of bullying and intimidating those who are skeptical about a hard-to-believe theory that mankind can affect planetary bodies by its mere existence?

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While this article is nice to see and well appreciated the problem is why the original article was even able to be written. The answer is that no one has taken (rather wasted) the time to thoroughly go over all the funding allegations and debunk them in an easy to read paper. Until this is done this never ending shilling allegations will continue to come up and the brainwashed masses will believe it. For some reason Oil companies are evil and bad and want us and all our children to die so they can have all the money for themselves but no customers to sell oil too? Makes sense only to a neo-liberal.

The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource

"NEWSWEEK's "denial machine" is a peripheral and highly contrived story. NEWSWEEK implied, for example, that ExxonMobil used a think tank to pay academics to criticize global-warming science. Actually, this accusation was long ago discredited, and NEWSWEEK shouldn't have lent it respectability."

But, but, but, . . . Newsweek wants to be liked, nay, loved by Al Gore and his lemmings. How can they do that without lying???

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I was reading in Newsday today a column of Ellis Henican who is a confirmed liberal about our obsession with weather and how every little thing is associated with this climate change and he does poke fun at it. http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen125329549aug12,0,1277426.column

I think he pretty much sums up one reason why Gore is getting away with this hoax.

While the comments that Mr. Samuelson made are certainly a step in the right direction, there is still the problem of misleading comments in it.  He says that carbon dioxide is a leading greenhouse gas - but it isn't.  It represents a very small portion of total greenhouse gases.  He also leads with the presumption that global warming is real.  But the temperature records are muddled and the true temperature trend isn't clear (especially given NASA's recent restatement of their data).

 So, Newsweek gets a slap on the wrist from one of their own but he still perpetuates the half truths that started this whole scam - I give him a C- at best.

 First there were sub-tropical storms. Now the National Hurricane Center has found a storm that was so severe that no one noticed it. The Unnamed Storm.

I guess they want those numbers.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT