Media bias is one thing. But we have just witnessed one of the greatest scandals of modern science, and it barely made the front page of the New York Times. Late last week we got the word: hackers broke into the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit server.

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The "fault," at this juncture, is giving credibility to Al Gore. It was understandable that Bill Clinton would sell Al Gore as a presidential timber. When he was picked for Vice President, I chalked it up to Clinton's attempt at getting a life insurance policy.

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On Friday the New York Times' house global warming author Andy Revkin, reporting on the breaking (Revkin would prefer it be braking) global Climategate scandal, said repercussions "continue to unfold" and that "there's much more to explore, of course."

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Scientists to Congress: You can argue about the politics all you want, but if you decide not to act on climate change, it won't be because the science wasn't strong enough.

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Karl Rove, the former president's senior political adviser, recently noted that while the country has been getting progressively more polarized over the years, Obama has only made a bad thing worse: "Rather than end or ameliorate that trend, Mr.

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Ever get annoyed with big Oil-funded bloggers & liars spreading falsehoods about the settled science of the threat of climate change facing mankind?

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Rebuilding our economy for the long haul -- not just to meet today's needs -- requires investing in education.

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Obama spent his first few days in office rolling out an orchestrated series of executive orders intended to signal that he would take the nation in a very different direction from his predecessor, George W. Bush.

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Excerpt: Britney Spears' much-anticipated appearance on "Good Morning America" today celebrated both her upcoming tour and her 27th birthday. Now, a few hours later, the critics have spoken. The consensus? Great abs, heinous performance.

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Reporting from Washington -- After decades of failed efforts to reshape the nation's healthcare system, a consensus appears to be emerging in Washington about how to achieve the elusive goal of providing medical insurance to all Americans.

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Unless Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can whip their caucuses into unity, numerous fault lines will be revealed: Southern Democrats vs. Northern liberals on labor law; California greens vs.

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Whatever else one might want to say about "bipartisanship," there is nothing new about it.

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With the U.S. presidential election nearing, Web sites closely linked to al-Qaida have become a sparring ground, as competing jihadist commentators measure Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen.

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Contrasting consensus and conflict: the election

UNITED STATES - In analyzing the Consensus Perspective, we find that there is a level of continuity involved in sustaining status quo with as little conflict as necessary between diverse groups.

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My jaw dropped when I heard that presidential candidate Clinton dismissed the unified opinion of every economist on the planet and supported the gas tax rebate. So I decided to start my own political party. I call it the Economics Party.

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The Federal Reserve: Banking is Dirty Work

"Too many bubbles have been going on for too long…The Fed is not really in control of the situation." Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker admits the economic situation in the U.S. is out of control.

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More than 400 scientists challenge claims by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations about the threat of man-made global warming, a new Senate minority report says.

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BUENOS AIRES — Left for dead by the global financial community in 2002 after defaulting on more than $100 billion worth of debt, Argentina today is enjoying the sixth year of one of the unlikeliest economic expansions in memory.

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A comprehensive survey of climate-change research reveals a lack of consensus in the scientific community on whether global warming is caused by human activity or will have any significant impact.

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Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers "implicit" endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%.

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The big story in Washington is the burst of bipartisanship in the passing of legislation by Congress to expand the National Security Agency's wiretap powers.

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Martin Durkin's The Great Global Warming Swindle demonstrates that no climate change concord exists and that the science is far from settled

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In following the discussion of global warming and related issues in the press and the blogosphere, I have been struck repeatedly by the assumption or expression of certain beliefs that strike me as highly problematical.

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There's no doubt that the term is useful. A consensus view in any field of science represents humanity's best guess as to what's going on. The guess might well be wrong, but what else is there to go on? It's not as though there are answers in the back of the book to look at.

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