This is the problem here. It's a lot easier to regurgitate whatever one's "side" is telling you than to actually work through the issue. If an AGW skeptic says something I think has a problem, why on Earth is it like seeing a live unicorn if I say so?

"Fox News, no less." That covers a lot of it in one phrase. To many people, it seems to be far more important that the information came from Fox News than whether or not the information is objectively correct. I paid little attention to the news source.

Here's a little background piece on Dr. Mitchell Taylor, the man who made the comment you quoted, demonstrating how the "wrong" thinking gets one shut out of the "scientific" debate.

This stopped being about science a long time ago. How many times have I said that? How many times should it be necessary to point out something that glaringly obvious?

And no, this isn't addressed specifically to you.