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Maybe I'm wrong but as the politicians in the U.S. get closer to actually implementing policy regarding man made global warming, the scrutiny the models are receiving seems to have increased a great deal. Just my perception could be wrong.

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No you are correct. NYT's Andy Revkin talked about how deniers typically get worse and worse as the odds turns against them. The closer they are to defeat the larger the lies will become.

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Wow that is a slanted restatement of the quoted paragraph. Scrutiny should increase the closer we get to policy decision and investment. In any semi-open political system contention and lobbying will also increase.

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I agree scrutiny should increase. However, the vast majority of what makes it to mainstream media is not legitimate scrutiny. Recent claims that NASA was hit by a Y2K bug or that the correction to the most recent dataset debunks global warming is anything but constructive scrutiny. Serious scrutiny (which does exist) rarely makes it into headlines or even this forum.