big politicized controversies tend to grow big shoddy PR efforts associated with all factions

I should have said that I tried to find the best arguments I could, and then deep dive into those. More from someone else in the link below. If someone can point me to some actual credible sceptical arguments I would be interested.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4ba/some_heuristics_for_evaluating_the_soundness_of/3k1e

I certainly agree AGW is a highly politicized issue and there are plenty of people trying to profit from it. Any time money is involved that will be the case. One should not assume that all the anti money spent on anti AGW money goes through the think tanks mentioned.

The whole Glaciergate thing was indeed a disgrace.

I don't get too worked up about AGW because I think it is just one of the many things that are likely to sink us.