How cold warriors screwed up science for the rest of us.

I watched this story while I was doing some server maintenance today at work. (Yes... working on a Sunday... ugh).. and it brings a few points to mind:

• Giving both sides to a story isn't fair and balanced if one side is a tiny vocal minority
• Tiny vocal minorities can be created by corporations with a relatively modest investment of resources, and can net a large disruption of Democracy in the process. I'd recommend reading the works of John Robb to see what that implies for the future.
• The science behind global warming has been known for quite a long time... longer than even I imaged it to be.
• There are parts of government which actually work quite well. Let's not throw it out, but encourage the good parts, and weed out the bad.
• Slippery slope arguments are bad for one's logical thought processes, because they over-ride the possibility of progress through dialog with one of fear.

Global warming is real, and we need to address it.