"So scientists turn out to be human beings like the rest of us. So what?"

Human beings say things that are either inappropriate or misinterpreted all the time. So what?

Also, a study at the University of Arizona in 2011 found a 100 year megadrought that coincided with the Roman Warm Period. Many deniers think that a warming world is a good thing - but they better not live in the US Southwest

http://uanews.org/story/ua-sci...

Why would democrats abort their voting base?

No one has "forgotten" the LIA which was only 1 deg C cooler than now but that was enough to freeze over most of Northern Europe.
Before the LIA, back in those glorious warm times, the US southwest used to enjoy megadroughts that would last a couple centuries.

Sure, let's go back to those good old days.

We'll never have a perfect climate. We'll continue to have drought & hurricanes. But the rate of change matters and if what we're doing can have a catastrophic effect faster than the global population can adapt, we need to change course. Let's hope that it's not too late.

That was done for part of the ocean using the Argo buoys. Still can't convince the "skeptics".

The recent analysis that claims to refute the "hiatus" warms the period from 1880 - 1940 by 2/10ths of a degree C.

Satellites do NOT directly measure temperature; extrapolations have to be made from wavelength radiance bands.
And the satellite data set has been "adjusted" more than 6 times in the past 10 years for various reasons.

It takes a lot of skill and experience to find the signal in the noise that is climate data.
Nevertheless it has been done, more than once.
Richard Muller was a true skeptic who rolled up his sleeves and got a team together to look at all the available data.
I won't spoil your delight by telling you what the conclusions were - see for yourself

Britain operated without tuition fees until 1998, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Iraq war was started on a lie.

The USA has wasted a lot of money on war that would have been better spent on the health & education of its citizens.

FYI, the defense budget is as large as the next dozen top spenders - almost all of whom are allies. What is all that money being spent on? Preparing for an invasion from Mexico & Canada? (Too late in the case of the former)

So they're zombies? Are they about to start World War Z?

A well-traveled friend who speaks several languages fluently says you can't learn proper Russian without staying out late at night drinking vodka.

Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into a mental hospital.
So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby... That's the Democrats.
  And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal.

Bill Maher, New Rules "White Men Can't Harrumph", Jun 2009

That 1st line should have read " wrt single payer, Obama's support has always been somewhat conditional"

I'd have to go back and check what he ACTUALLY promised vs what we THINK he promised but I do admit to being somewhat disappointed.
But despite what rightwing media says, he's not an Emperor and change is difficult or impossible if Congress isn't on board.