Turning point?

Is this possibly the turning point in the argument with climate change skeptics?
http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/heartland-institute-jumps-the-shark/

Amazing that a group like this would do this, especially considering that one of their main media allies, Marc Morano of Climate Depot, published the email addresses of mainstream climate researchers, inviting the right-wing climate skeptical public to bombard them with abuse and threatening language. 

Nice play.  Because they have shown their true colors -- their contempt for discussion on climate change the way it should be conducted, in the manner of scientific discourse, where reasonable people can disagree vehemently, and yet the way in which their disagreements are settled is with reliance on straight, untwisted, unspun fact.   Oh sure, they have all their propagandistic position papers that they point you to on their Web site, trying to draw us in while remaining unapologetic about their means.  While the fact is that they and their allies encourage harassment, and the supposed scandal that they trumpet, aka Climategate, has been shown repeatedly to have been overdramatized, misinterpreted, and misrepresented - and ultimately it was initiated as a crime, a theft of private email correspondence. 

As they say on Pandora, "We See You".


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" The point is that believing in global warming is not “mainstream,” smart, or sophisticated. In fact, it is just the opposite of those things. Still believing in man-made global warming – after all the scientific discoveries and revelations that point against this theory – is more than a little nutty. In fact, some really crazy people use it to justify immoral and frightening behavior."