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It’s a non-debate that just won’t go away. Virtually all scientists - at least credible ones who publish in peer reviewed journals - believe that global warming is a real phenomenon. New Scientist has a full section devoted to how and why climate change is occurring. Countless independent reports have come out stating that we need to act. And yet people still produce pseudo-scientific documentaries like this 1.25 hour Great Global Warming Swindle. Read the rest

Al Gore's An Inconventient Truth has made it onto the front cover of Entertainment Weekly, now that his documentary has surpassed the $15 million mark in the US.

Laurie David, wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm creator, Larry David, saw an abridged version of Al Gore's slide presentation on Global Warming back in May 2004. At that time, she was convinced it should be a movie. She says:

Right away I knew this should be a movie - I just knew it in my gut. So I asked Gore to come to Los Angeles and do the show for some of my friends. I booked a hall at the Beverly Hilton, hired caterers, and called everyone I knew.'

The timing was right, and there was enough talk about global warming that many people contributed services for free. The final production cost just over $1 million to make. Read the rest

There's been quite a bit about global warming in the news recently, with The National Academy of Sciences reporting to Congress that

recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia. Read the rest

There may be a huge backlash to Al Gore's new movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and its message of global warming, but that's not stopping the government from funding a new study on how sea ice affects the movement of water in the Arctic Ocean. Read the rest

With gas prices pushing past $3.00/ gallon, the US government is trying to encourage innovation by sponsoring a contest with up to $10 million in prizes for anyone that can make hydrogen fuel cells a viable way to fuel cars. Read the rest

A new flurry of stat crunching from the Georgia Institute of Technology claims to support what researchers Peter Webster and Judy Curry claimed days after Hurricane Katrina - that rising sea temperatures are causing a significant increase in the number of hurricanes. Read the rest