"Can’t tell the legitimate concerns” about climate debate “from the nonsense”? Not to worry, say the editors of Foreign Policy magazine, “[we’re] here to help.”

If this is the best they can do, though, maybe we’d do better without. They seek to inoculate the vulnerable against manmade global warming critics by mis-characterizing, hyper-condensing, and misrepresenting the handful it names and studiously ignoring most of the most scientifically or economically important ones. Where are Fred Singer, Ian Plimer, Garth Paltridge, Steve McIntyre (other than mentioned as a sidekick to Ross McKitrick), John Coleman, Roy Spencer (other than mentioned as a sidekick to John Christy), Willie Soon, David Legates, David Henderson, Chris Knappenberger, A. W. Montford, Doug Hoffman, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, Peter Taylor, Patrick Michaels, Marlo Lewis, Robert Balling, Sherwood and Craig Idso, Indur Goklany, Vincent Gray, William Gray, Edward Wegman, Richard Tol, Christopher Landsea, Duncan Wingham, Robert Carter, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Tom Segalstad, Nir Shaviv, Hendrik Tennekes, Zbigniew Jaworowski, Henrik Svensmark, Eigil Friis-Christensen, Sami Solanki, Jasper Kirkby, Habibullo Abdussamatov, George Kukla, Rhodes Fairbridge, Cliff Ollier, Paul Reiter, Roger Revelle, Claude Allegre, Reid Bryson, David Bellamy (to take the last 23 just from the table of contents of Lawrence Solomon’s The Deniers), not to mention the many others featured in the Cornwall Newsletter’s “Meet the Critics” series, the over 700 featured in the Senate EPW minority report, and the over 31,000 who signed the Global Warming Petition Project?

Boy, you know they’re desperate when they must stoop to something like this!