Think Global Warming Is Beyond Dispute? Think Again.

In spite of efforts to ban honest debate about the reality of man-made global warming, it looks like the UN's so-called consensus is dwindling. What gives? Kimberly A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal believes it's "reality":

The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans.

Indeed, according to Strassel, more than 700 respected scientists openly disagree with the United Nations' official claims, a number that is 13 times greater than the number of scientists who originally signed on to the notion of man-made global warming. And if contrary evidence like that above continues to mount, this number is likely to grow.

Given the global financial crisis and the new evidence debunking the environmental concerns of man-made global warming, Strassel says some politicians are taking "a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon."

I wish our American elected officials would do the same.