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... would cite Michael Crichton's State of Fear in this discussion.
I am hardly an ideologue, though I have a point of view. Most of all, I respect science and the process. In this case, the scientific consensus earns my respect after years of reading with an open mind.
I'll leave it to better people than I to dispute your claims point by point, but my reading list includes many books that are not at all ideological as well as some that are. I read Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science skeptically, and my review, though positive, does not buy into the entire thesis. Whether or not there is a war on science is not the point. Science is being mangled by ideologues on the right (which you seem to deny), just as it has been mangled by left-wing ideologues in the past.
Science knows no ideology. Hansen has a point of view shaped by science. So do I. That doesn't make me an ideologue.
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