I sat through a TEA party meeting on climate change at which long-time climate skeptic Fred Singer and others were talking about their views on global climate change.  Quite an experience!

Like opportunistic evangelicals picking Biblical quotes to prove their point, they selected from a wide variety of scientific facts to prove that climate change is a myth.  One graph uses multi-decadal data to show no global warming response, the next uses a five-year data set to "prove" global cooling.

In the end, to rebut claims of higher rates of sea level rise, Singer said we can expect 8" over the next century - the current rate of sea level rise.  For Virginia, when you factor rates of sinking land of about 10" per century, that means he says we'll get another 1.5 feet.  'Tis enough as Shakespeare put it - enough to imperil much of the tidal reaches of Virginia and destroy most of our tidal wetlands.

And that is if Singer is right and the rest of the scientific community is wrong - they are looking at a minimum relative sea level rise rate of about double the current rate, something closer to one meter over the next 100 years.

(Subsequent to this meeting, a trove of data was lifted from the Heartland Institute that reveals some interesting information on who helps pay for these folks to show up and "spread the truth" about global warming.)