If you have the time, viewing the "Democracy Now" link on post #96 is instructive.

As Mark Hertsgaard has pointed out, skeptics (as deniers like to be called) are important to the scientific method but a true skeptic can be persuaded by evidence. Today's climate change deniers can not and that's the difference. He refers to today's global warming deniers as "cranks."

I think the same can be said for the proponents of intelligent design or people who think the president is a Kenyan, the earth is flat or bleeding the sick is therapeutic. There is a contempt for the evidence and in my view, that's anti-intellectual. Cranks.

You got this part right. A growing minority of scientists are saying their original models were inaccurate and global climate change is happening much faster than anyone previously thought.