Crash goes the "consensus".

The year 2007 will go down as the "Year of Fear," in which a mob of militant enviro-activists, UN bureaucrats, prattling politicians, and Hollywood leftists largely succeeded in creating a climate of hysteria over climate change. The hysteria reached a global "tipping point" level thanks to a stupendous day-in-and-clay-out propaganda onslaught in the major media.

Thanks also to that onslaught, Al Gore won an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for his slick but fraudulent shockumentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which has been force-fed to hundreds of millions of traumatized school children worldwide. Many of these students have been forced to view Gore's apocalyptic frightfest multiple times. Unsatisfied that children were being sufficiently terrified, Laurie David, the co-producer of Gore's movie, co-authored a children's global-warming book for Scholastic Books entitled The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming.

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David made clear her intention. "We want you to grow up to be activists," she said in an open letter to children. Jumping on the climate fright train, Leonardo DiCaprio came out with his own end-of-the-world pic, The 11th Hour. "I want the public to be very scared by what they see," DiCaprio said of his film. It flopped at the box office, but like Gore's film, it now has a captive audience in the classroom. "We need to get kids young," DiCaprio said in an interview with USA Weekend.

The Gore-DiCaprio gang are after your kids because they know adults are wising up to their scam. Hysteria is a temporary condition that is difficult to sustain, especially when cooler heads start poking holes in the emotionally inflated greenhouse-gas balloons. That is what has been happening. Sensible adults have been coming back down to Earth as news gets out that the "scientific consensus" over global warming is as fake as Gore's temperature statistics and claims of catastrophic sea-level rise. Thousands of scientists have been fighting back against the massive media campaign of disinformation and censorship. If they can break through the incredible dam of media lies, the sea of truth will sweep away the mountainous dung pile of global-warming lies faster than Hercules cleaned the Augean Stables.

Al Gore says there is a "scientific consensus" that anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming is a fact and poses an imminent threat. Only an insignificant few scientists disagree, says Al, and they are akin to "flat Earth society members." UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri would have us believe that there are only "about a dozen" scientists left in the world who challenge the new orthodoxy. These scientists are not just "out of touch" dinosaurs but dangerous enemies of the planet. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the environmentalist author and president of Waterkeeper Alliance, says of global-warming opponents: "This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors." Columnist Ellen Goodman wrote: "Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers."

Defying the media demonizers and threats of losing their positions and funding, thousands of scientists are bravely standing up to voice their opposition to the false claims of climate-change "consensus." On December 20, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) released an important Senate report announcing: "Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called 'consensus' on man-made global warming .... The distinguished scientists featured in this new report are experts in diverse fields, including: climatology; geology; biology; glaciology; biogeography; meteorology; oceanography; economics; chemistry; mathematics; environmental sciences; engineering; physics and paleoclimatology. Some of those profiled have won Nobel Prizes for their outstanding contribution to their field of expertise and many shared a portion of the UN IPCC Nobel Peace Prize with Vice President Gore."

You really must go to the Senate web page and download the whole report to read not only the names of these scientists, but their devastating critiques. (http://epw.senate.gov/public/index .cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report)

Are 400 scientists not enough? How about 19,000 scientists? That's how many have signed the Petition Project, rejecting the global-warming hysteria, the UN Kyoto agreement, and likeminded proposals. This effort is spearheaded by Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Arthur B. Robinson, founder and president of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. (For more information on the Petition Project, visit www.oism.org/pproject.)

In November, meteorologist John Coleman, founder of the cable TV Weather Channel, called the UN global-warming scenario "the greatest scam in history." That scam is being exposed. The phony consensus is crashing, and you can help speed it along. 2008 could be the "Year of Truth." And that would be inconvenient indeed for Mr. Gore and his compatriots.