Climate Researchers Get Their Wall Street Journal Moment January 31, 2012, 10:04 pm The Wall Street Journal has just published "Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate," a rebuttal from a long list of climate researchers criticizing last week's much-discussed 16-author op-ed article titled "No Need to Panic About Global Warming." Here's the opening paragraph of the response and a link to the rest: Do you consult your dentist about your heart condition? In science, as in any area, reputations are based on knowledge and expertise in a field and on published, peer-reviewed work. If you need surgery, you want a highly experienced expert in the field who has done a large number of the proposed operations. Read the rest. On Wednesday I'll be posting fresh input from some economists, who - whether one likes it or not - are focused on the arena that will largely decide what does and does not happen in the planet's atmosphere, oceans and frozen places. I also encourage you to click here for a comment from Louis Derry, an assistant professor of geological sciences at Cornell University who is a frequent comment contributor on this blog.