Global warming is "dubious science"? What scientific journals have you read lately? Or are you referring to the mainstream media's tendency to offer "balance" on such matters as creationism and global warming, behaving as if the scientific side and the opinionated know-nothing side have equal evidence.

Every peer reviewed science journal article (and there are a thousand) agrees. But if you'd rather get your science news from Entertainment Tonight, well, then stop offering your opinion on the validity of confirmed scientific findings.

C.C., Erin didn't say global warming was dubious science. She said Al Gore's film is based on dubious science. And it is.

Also, may I point out that on Erin's blog she is free to offer her opinion on anything she chooses. Your permission is not necessary.

I like it warm, I think it will be nice to be warm. Al Gore is Dumb

...reminds me of something that you quoted from A S Byatt (and that I linked) a couple of years ago:

"Books I have read that were written at a moment of social-political crisis tend to be incomprehensible 20 years later. Books that are written about some problem of 20 or 50 or 100 years ago are written with understanding and somehow also illuminate the present and the future."

The delay required to determine if someone's work is worth of the Peace Prize should be longer, not shorter, than that required for the scientific prizes. I'm not sure where literature should fall in this spectrum.