Tall Bloke gives an airing to somebody who is sure that the greenhouse effect is real – see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/tim-folkerts-simple-argument-s… … is worth reading – and thinking about. However, another angle can be viewed at www.tech-know-group.com/papers/IR-absorption_updated.pdf Likewise, the 'Left of Centre' web site of Geoff Chambers, the political fence where most people seem to sit, has some amusing posts and is always worth a look at – go to http://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/shale-gas-and-watermelons/ … which is all about the Greens against fracking and shale gas, aligned with the steel industry in France. The steel furnaces require cheap energy – not much chance of that with the unions making hay with environmentalists. Geoff asks what is a French steel company doing in Ohio? – where fracking has produced lots of cheap gas.
That is not all as there is a growing band of scientists in Russia, Sweden, Denmark, the German speaking world, France, the UK and the Netherlands that consider CAGW has passed it's sell by date – see http://notrickszone.com/2012/12/07/dr-hans-labohm-on-scepticism-in-europ…