And another: “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity…The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.” — General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Inquisition that forced Galileo Galilei to recant will live in infamy. So will those whose words and actions supported the malignantly corrosive ideas of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.

Refute the science, not the publisher.

You are, by the way, using a very common logical fallacy, called “argumentum ad hominem.” Serious scientists attempt to avoid such fallacies.

It is physically, chemically, and physiologically impossible for human contributions to the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere to ever approach even a mildly irritating level.

Consensus isn’t science.

Evidence is science.

The debate among scientists who have been bribed by taxpayer money to toe the line on catastrophic climate change is over. Their paycheck depends on telling their political masters the story the politicians want to be told. They no longer debate the issue because it is in their self-interest to ignore any conflicting evidence.

The debate among scientists who have actually looked at the evidence is still very much alive. The evidence indicates that yes, there is a human contribution to a rise in carbon dioxide concentration, but that the contribution is so small that its climate signature is indistinguishably intertwined with the natural noise of climate change.

Check out http://arxiv.org/pdf/0707.1161 and http://www.co2web.info/Jaworowski%20CO2%20EIR%202007.pdf for some of those scientists for whom evidence is more important than consensus.

Let’s start with what NASA considers a “no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL)” of 3% CO2 concentration. Three percent is, as you might notice, 30,000ppm (thirty thousand parts per million). Current Mauna Loa CO2 concentration measurement is ~388 parts per million.

Some well qualified observers have noticed that 388ppm is well within range of CO2 concentrations measured as far back as 1820. And if you’re skeptical, read this response to critics of those measurements.

So, 30,000ppm (3%) is, according to NASA, a no-observed-adverse-effect level, and is 400% larger than any atmospheric concentration ever measured in the atmosphere.

I’d say Bachmann has read NASA and you haven’t. Even if CO2 concentrations were to reach 400% of the highest levels ever observed in the atmosphere over 525 million years of measurement, they would still be at a no-observed-adverse-effect level.

And, concentrations in Apollo 13 never rose above 2%, verified by the crew’s returning to earth safely with no observed adverse effects.