Jonah Goldberg is a known idiot.
http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/jonah...

Carolina Reviewians, by contrast, go to scientifically vacuous talks which reinforce their anti-environmental commitments.
e.g., http://crdaily.com/2010/04/the-coming-eco-pocalyp...

More reasons not to take Marc's sources seriouslys:

(AT): "First and foremost -- contrary to what you’ve likely read elsewhere in the blogosphere or heard from the few policymakers and pundits actually addressing the issue, it was not the temperature decline the planet has been experiencing since 1998 that Jones and friends conspired to hide. "

The planet has not been experiencing a significant temperature decline since 1998.

AT: blah blah blah MWP was really warm

I don't think that Mssr Shephard understands what he's arguing for. We also have some idea of the net climate *forcing* as well as the temperatures going back ~1kyear. And based on the forcings, if the MWP was as warm as the 'skeptics' claim, then climate sensitivity is much larger than anyone has seriously claimed- in other words, if the MWP is as large as Shephard says, we are EVEN MORE SCREWED than the most alarming of the 'alarmists' have predicted.

Here's some more source material for your education in british humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-NpyaOWV0

I think that the Chicken Little remark is oddly appropriate: the sky *is* falling.

Greenhouse gasses trap heat in the troposphere, preventing it from moving into the stratosphere and beyond. This causes stratospheric and thermospheric cooling, which has been observed (here: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climat... ) Keep this in mind next time the CR or some other antiscience outlet tries to tell you it's the sun- an increase in solar energy input would warm the whole atmosphere*. (Advanced antiscientists will tell you it's due to ozone depletion, but that's because they don't understand that ozone depletion is geographically inhomogeneous, while stratospheric cooling is not.)

Now, when gasses cool, their pressure drops. That means there's less pressure holding up the 'top' of the atmosphere- and as a result, it drops. This has been observed, and even has affected the orbits of satellites.

The sky really is falling!!

* they'd also have to contend with the fact that nights are warming faster than days and winters are warming faster than summers - the opposite of what we'd expect from an increase in solar energy. Oh, and the fact that late 20th century temperature trends are not correlated with solar irradiance.

For another example of the CR's contributions to the Republican War on Science, consider this article, and comments:
http://crdaily.com/2010/04/the-coming-eco-pocalyp...

The author, who should know better, apparently repeats whatever malarky the antiscience clearinghouses provide.