Malcolm Gladwell's great book The Tipping Point presents the case that sudden seismic shifts in society can result from small events, if the right factors are present.  Tipping points happen when momentum toward an idea builds and finally crosses a threshold where it is evident that a major cultural change has occurred.  The global warming tipping point is coming, but not the one anticipated by climate change "experts." Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory has been dominant for the past three decades as absolute fact in the public mind.  In the last several years, however, cracks in the fortress of "settled science" have appeared, and public opinion has begun to shift.  Increasingly, alarmist predictions have failed to come to fruition. In 2004, NASA's chief scientist James Hansen authoritatively announced that there is only a ten-year window to act on AGW (presumably by transferring mass quantities of taxpayer funds to global warmist causes) before...(Read Full Post)