And so it seems that the science isn’t ‘settled’ after all. In the other side of the Pond:

The nation’s largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence for man-made climate change.

Chamber officials say it would be “the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century” — complete with witnesses, cross-examinations and a judge who would rule, essentially, on whether humans are warming the planet to dangerous effect.

Just a guess, but there is no chance that EPA will actually do this, as, most of the climahysterics do not actually want a public debate. Al Gore won’t debate anyone and neither will Hansen or any of the other archbishops of the religion.

The EPA is having none of it, calling a hearing a “waste of time” and saying that a threatened lawsuit by the chamber would be “frivolous.”

Guess they won’t. Shocker. EPA spokeshysteric Brendan Gilfillan says the science is settled, damnitall, so, stop mucking around and boosting opposition to AGW legislation with all that damned science.

In other AGW news:

Plans for a nude camping festival in Wyre have been scrapped – because punters were worried about getting chilly.

Heh. Of course, climahysterics will just say this is weather, or blame the chilly weather on climate change.

It’s also getting really cold in the Arctic

“We’ve never lost a national park before,” but global warming could change that. Of course it could. Climahysterics shown in top form in paragraphs 6-9.

12 Facts about Global Climate Change That You Won’t Read in the Popular Press

Why the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are not collapsing
And read Melissa Kite’s amusing column in the Telegraph on the Climate Change Camp (link to follow if one can be found as it was spotted in the dead tree version).