As based on this survery -
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf97% of active publishing climatologists on the subject of climate change seem to agree. The further you get away from the science, the less confidence you get.
This would suggest to me that as some people like to use as an excuse, climate is very complicated. However there's a number of reasons why we can still make predictions regardless.
I'm a little concerned that "conservative" automatically has to mean anti-science, or at least anti-AGW, especially with the conservative mantra of personal responsibility and how we affect the world around us, and thus would like to hope there are at least some who do not follow the stereotype(I know a few lefties who are, perhaps annoyingly to me, deniers).
I'm moderately knowledge about the ins and outs on this, so I can answer a lot of questions people might have and clear up some myths. However I'm not a climatologist, so if someone find a particularly new and awkward article I might not be able to.
I'm going to start out by saying it's wrong the forum's
rules outright tell you to accept climategate as a valid scandal. Which is kind of ironic since people are concerned about having the AGW agenda pushed on them...