CJR Daily's list of "Five Great Stories You Didn't Read in 2005" has, as #3, "Perception vs. Reality on Global Warming," praising a Seattle Times piece for its "clarity, scope, and timeliness."

In a special report entitled "The truth about global warming," Doughton set the record straight, showing how there is an overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming but that the message "doesn't seem to be getting through to the public and policy-makers." With Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, calling global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people" and a Gallup Poll last June finding that "only about half of Americans believe the effects of global warming have already started," Doughton reported, many still believe that there is a strong ongoing debate among scientists on the issue. In actuality, there is almost universal scientific agreement, Doughton wrote, pointing to one science historian who analyzed 1,000 research papers on climate change between 1993 and 2003 and found that "Not a single study explicitly rejected the idea that people are warming the planet," and to another who said the subject was extensively reviewed and debated like no other in the history of science as the consensus built.

Of course, Inhofe will continue to lie about this, but what else would you expect from a thin-skinned, character-free, shameless, dangerous idiot?