[MD] Global Warming: Science or Politics?

[Case]

[Platt]
Are you suggesting we should take the word of politicians for scientific
facts? 

[Case]
As you have pointed out science and politics make strange bedfellows and
result of their union can be malformed indeed. But nothing in what I said
suggests that we should rely on politicians as authorities on science. What
I was saying is that you are attempting to make a political argument by
denying the facts and it would be more productive to acknowledge the facts
and formulate policy accordingly. At least then we could have an honest
disagreement over policy rather than a disingenuous argument over the nature
of scientific consensus.