On Global Warming, Should You Trust the Wall Street Journal, or Chevron, ExxonMobil and the Defense Department??

[image error]This is a guest post by Jamie Vernon, a 2011-12 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow.

The Wall Street Journal has published a letter that makes an emotionally persuasive case about why we should not "panic about global warming." The authors, 7 engineers and 9 scientists (4 of whom are climate scientists and 1 biologist), have assembled convincing arguments based on their opinions of climate science.  The question is, should we trust them?

We all care deeply about our planet and will do...