You mean the William Connolley who pretty much coined the term “septic”??? I agree he should be… To bad he isn’t.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/022107b.html

“Mr. Rohrabacher repeatedly said that hundreds of scientists disagreed with the conclusion that humans were causing global warming. However, when Democrats pointed out that he and his Republican colleagues did not produce any of them as witnesses at the hearing, Mr. Rohrabacher was at a loss for a comeback.

“It was remiss on our part not to have someone here” from that group, he said.

In fact, staff members for the committee’s Republican minority did invite Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mr. Pielke has criticized some actions by the IPCC in the past, but he agrees with the panel’s conclusion that humans have caused much of the recent global warming. The Republicans disinvited Mr. Pielke.

On his blog, Prometheus, Mr. Pielke posted a message he had received from one of the committee’s minority staff members: “Rather than have you testify, they want me to find a witness from industry for the hearing.” “

Bogus because testable. Check it out, don’t repeat what you have no way of knowing, eh?

Wikipedia has a procedure for this sort of thing. Throwing pixels at one another on blogs just prolongs it. Grist should have higher standards for fact-checking.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/United_States_Congress

I’m a bit puzzled about the ontological status of the comment you posted saying you can’t post comments.