Update: I have separately posted for the interest of readers my exchange of emails with Chip Knappenberger, Pat Michael`s colleague at his self-described "advocacy science consulting firm", New Hope Environmental Services: http://mises.com/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/03/update-on-science...
[Significant update at bottom] I've decided to put up this little post in connection with Walter Block's recent post, http://blog.mises.org/archives/007828.asp , in order to avoid having my comment stuck in a spam filter (I've found that comments with too many links get caught). I see I missed...