Here is some staire about the "global Warming/Climate Change consensus:"

http://planetmoron.typepad.com/planet_moron/2008/10/consensus-watch-10092008.html

People who have not studied science do not realize how silly the Al Gore "the debate is over" assertion is. The debate over whether CO2 absorbs radiation at certain wavelengths (around 2.7, 4.3 and 15 microns). The debate is also over regarding the minor atmospheric temperature increase resulting from dramatically increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere (which is not much). But the debate over feedback mechanisms that might or might not dramatically increase temperature because of the slight temperature increase due to CO2. The debate over feedback has just started, and so far the results from new data collection sources do not support the GCM developers who assumed that all feedbacks were positive, that is, cause a temperature increase.