As the debate over the energy bill drones on in the Senate, the topic of global warming has made resurgence in major American newspapers. Last Wednesday, the New York Times featured a front-page story about a Bush aide who marked up climate-change reports to better reflect administration positions on global warming. Most of the time, these minor changes simply toned down enthusiastic appraisals of global climate-change models–models that many climatologists have called unreliable. It didn