I was going to post this here, but think it's more appropriate at Communicating science, since it is a rough outline for an essay I would love to get some feedback.  But the traffic seems to be here, thus this notice 

Given what's going on with the US Congress right now, I think it's a timely consideration.  Seems to me some part of this dialogue needs to start hitting directly at the political bs.

~ Observations regarding the national AGW dialogue ~

http://www.skepticalscience.com/thread.php?t=612

Only about 320 words.