Back in March, The Stiletto summarized a dozen installments of an ongoing series in The National Post of Canada profiling "scientists who buck the conventional wisdom on climate science." Here are summaries of 10 more installments from this excellent series, which details and explains competing global warming theories. If you read more than a couple of installments, it’s clear that there is no consensus on what is causing global warming:

† Sami Solanki led a team of scientists that reconstructed the sun's activity since the last Ice Age, and found the Earth hasn't been this hot in 8,000 years. His work suggests that global warming predates the Industrial Revolution. Solanki would like to see more research on the relationship between climate, the sun's irradiance and its magnetic field.

† Carl Wunsch is one of the scientists interviewed in "The Great Global Warming Swindle," director Martin Durkin's answer to Al Gore. He is aghast at how polarized and politicized the scientific debate has become – on both sides of the issue.

† Paul Reiter has been researching diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and other insects for 30 years. He is critical of the quality of the science produced by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, largely because of a peer review process that has "mutated" to "abide by governmental strictures … without public scrutiny."

† Syun-Ichi Akasofu is a geophysicist who says Arctic ice-core data showing a consistent rate of warming over the centuries suggests that a continuation of the Little Ice Age can explain the 20th-century warming.

† Freeman Dyson is a mathematician and physicist who is "known for the unification of three versions of quantum electrodynamics," as well as for his activism on behalf of nuclear disarmament. He thinks computer climate models have no predictive value whatsoever, because they are "full of fudge factors." He adds, "The models … do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields, farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in."

† Eigil Friis-Christensen published a 1991 paper in the peer-reviewed journal, Science, that showed "a startling correlation between global warming and the activities of the sun." His ongoing research has convinced "a growing proportion of the world's solar scientists" that man is not "at the centre of the climate-change universe."

† Roger Revelle was the co-author of a 1957 paper that demonstrated for the first time that fossil fuels had increased carbon-dioxide levels in the air – and one of Al Gore’s professors at Harvard in the 1960s. "Gore thought of Dr. Revelle as his mentor … [but] it became clear that he had misunderstood his former professor: Although Dr. Revelle recognized potential harm from global warming, he also saw potential benefits and was by no means alarmed. … While Gore in the late 1980s was becoming a prominent politician, loudly warning of global warming dangers, Dr. Revelle was quietly warning against taking any drastic action."

† Zbigniew Jaworowski doesn’t think that scientists can use ice-core samples to create "a precise reconstruction of the ancient atmosphere," because "no component of the trapped air can escape from the ice. Neither can the ice ever become liquid. Neither can the various gases within air ever combine or separate." Calling this scenario "fantasy," Jaworowski contends the IPCC has built its global warming hypothesis "on arbitrary assumptions and these assumptions, it is now clear, are false."

† Antonino Zichichi is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and "Italy's most renowned scientist, credited with the discovery of nuclear antimatter, the discovery of the "time-like" electromagnetic structure of the proton, the discovery of the effective energy in the forces which act between quarks and gluons, and the proof that, despite its complex structure, it is impossible to break the proton." Zichichi’s presentation at a Vatican seminar earlier this year at which 80 scientists, politicians, theologians and bishops met to "search for solutions to the phenomenon of global warming" in large part led to a call for the Church to proceed with caution before taking any position on global warming – rather than the climate change crusade some had hoped for.

† Hans von Storch believes that humans are responsible for climate change, but that "predictions of doom are ‘hysterical’ when they aren't ‘completely idiotic and dubious,’ and that many of the science establishment's pronouncements on climate change are bereft of scientific merit" - and he calls them "the stuff of Hollywood" and "hype." von Storch thinks it would be "helpful to learn why humans keep forgetting how wrong we have been in our past dire forecasts."

"Sicko" Healthcare Prescription Causes Adverse Side Effects For Dems

Michael Moore's "Sicko," a polemical rant about universal healthcare falsely advertised as a documentary, is causing Dem presidential hopefuls nothing but headaches and heartburn, reports the Los Angeles Times:

"Sicko" agitates for dismantling the insurance industry, regulating pharmaceutical companies up the wazoo, and adopting a Canadian-style socialized healthcare delivery system. Moore hopes his healthcare cure will gain traction amongst voters after "Sicko’s" general release June 29.

An inconvenient truth that "Sicko" will not tell you: Canadians who have the financial means to pay out-of-pocket for American-style healthcare, prefer to come here rather than be subjected to health-threatening waits for specialists who are all-too-often recruited from second-tier medical schools in third-world countries. For instance, The Mayo Clinic (which has branches in Rochester, MN, Jacksonville, FL, and Scottsdale/Phoenix, AZ) serves an international clientele.

Given his girth, The Stiletto is laying odds that within 10 to 15 years Moore will suffer a major cardiovascular event – probably a myocardial or cerebral infarct – and will gratefully avail himself of the best U.S. medical care that his somewhat considerable fortune can buy. You can bet he won’t be going to Canada or to Cuba for treatment and rehab.

[Editorial Note: Several years ago, The Stiletto was vacationing in Norway with two friends. We were all injured when the bus we were riding in Oslo collided with a car. One friend suffered cuts and bruises, one fractured her forearm and The Stiletto thought she might have cracked a rib or two. Police took us to a nearby hospital, where we found out that our money was no good. No, we weren’t going to get free healthcare. We were going to get NO healthcare. You see, X-ray films, plaster for casts and other medical supplies are strictly rationed. The hospital had a set number of X-ray films, for instance, and could not get restocked if they ran out before December 31^st of that year (it was the end of June). The ER did not want to "waste" any of their medical supplies on tourists – even though we would pay cash on the barrelhead – because their own citizens might have to go without by the end of the year. The Stiletto nearly caused an international incident to get her friend’s arm casted. She never did get her ribs X-rayed; turned out they were badly bruised but not broken. She received no painkillers or other treatment. That’s socialized medicine in a nutshell.]

Obama: Some Exploiting, Hijacking Faith

Speaking before a church convention in Hartford, CT, on Saturday Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) descried those who have "exploited" and "hijacked" faith. Did he mean radical imams sowing sectarian violence in the Middle East and inciting jihad worldwide?

Nope. Obama was talking about "right-wing" evangelical leaders: "Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us."