Much has happened between the time Deirdre and I added An Inconvenient Truth to our Netflix queue and the day it bubbled up to the top: The President managed to squeak out the words "global climate change" in his State of the Union address. (But the highly-touted energy initiatives were mysteriously absent.) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report that interpreted the data very conservatively but still managed to draw ominous conclusions. Christopher C. Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming , showed up on The Daily Show (video here ) and came off as a complete loon. Michael Crichton appeared on the Charlie Rose Show and said such things as "I absolutely believe that warming is occurring, humans are involved, and it`s going to continue for the next 100 years." (Transcript available here .) A well-nourished Al Gore showed up at the Academy Awards, and soon thereafter was the victim of a slick smear campaign that nonetheless managed Read More...