Only a fool or an idiot would believe anyone arguing against global warming is making money from it. Would love to see someone explain how that works.

That last picture is a fake -- not from West, Texas (doesn't look like Texas at all); see Tweet list from your source.

It's inaccurate to claim Jefferson would have favored school choice, or vouchers, or much of anything else the Heritage Foundation favors as a means of killing of public education today. Jefferson favored public schools, not sectarian, and not parochial if they leaned sectarian. Jefferson favored tough education standards. He would not have favored much of the current conservative assault on education, if any of it.

And now, months later, are you still claiming Monckton is accurate? Texas's beef industry is nearly dead due to global warming. Superstorm Sandy showed us the dangers.

Surely you're not claiming the hockey stick is not accurate, are you?

This is really a sadness inducing bit of reporting. Essentially, Dr. Derocher is saying the polar bears are doomed for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and if we're good and lucky we can keep a few alive to repopulate the ice for our descendants in the 31st century.

Meanwhile, the right-wing politicians keep saying polar bears are fine.

They're showing their solidarity with the women of Slut Walk.

(We should say that, even if they protest.)

Were the Tuskegee Airmen invited this year?

We're not blaming 50 million deaths on your ridiculous and un-documented claim that ending DDT use in the U.S. killed kids in Africa. Clearly you didn't think that through. DDT has never been banned in Africa. Mosquitoes don't migrate from Arkansas to Africa. Malaria is on the run, and has been dropping ever since DDT use in the U.S. was ended.

Get the facts, suddenly the entire picture changes.

Try getting facts here: http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/ddt-chronicles-at-millard-fillmores-bathtub/

I disagree, Syd. We cleaned up particulates in the air in the U.S., made Pittsburgh and Los Angeles livable again, saving a few million lives. We stopped and reversed the damage to the ozone layer, saving a few hundred thousand more lives. When we got rid of lead in gasoline, we raised the national IQ by 10 points, just by ending lead poisoning and the effects it has on kids. We cleaned up water in the U.S., reducing typhoid and chemical poisonings. We stopped acid rain. We saved the eagle, and we're doing better against malaria without DDT than we ever did with it.

Sounds like 100% success, to me. Do you really hate bald eagles and kids all that much?

Millions are dead? Not for lack of DDT.

Malaria has declined almost in lockstep with the decline in use of DDT. Turns out that, to beat malaria, you really need to beef up medical care and take a lot of other prevention measures OTHER THAN poisoning the home.

Today malaria infection rates are at the lowest point in history, and total infections have been cut in half from peak DDT use, to 250 million a year. The death toll has been cut even more, from 4 million annually to fewer than 800,000, a reduction of more than 75%.

Facts are facts: Malaria is on the run. If the DDT-should-poison-everybody crowd doesn't reduce funding to fight DDT, eradication of malaria is almost within our reach.

Without DDT. No thanks to DDT advocates.