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(CNSNews.com) - A climatologist Monday was quick to dismiss the Fox News special on "global warming," complaining that it featured "profoundly juvenile climate science."

The American people are being hoodwinked not just by the green activists, but by the scientists who get billions of dollars for creating global climate models that can't even forecast backward, let along forward," said Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute's Center for Global Food Issues in an interview with Cybercast News Service. (CNSNEWS)

Climatologist Patrick J. Michaels, the author of several books on climate change including "Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media," believes the contribution of human activity on planetary warming will be "modest" (CNSNEWS)

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Rising sea levels caused by global warming could shrink New Jersey by up to 3 percent in the next 100 years, U.S. scientists warned on Wednesday. (and that’s a bad thing?)

We have cataloged the human genome, conquered the mystery of outer space and mastered the art of transmitting data bits around the world in seconds. Yet we still can't resist the urge to tinker with the invisible hand. (Carline Baum ,Bloomberg)

The grandstanding by Congress last week was great theater. Any attempt to translate the investigation into high oil prices into legislation to curb them will turn this comedy into tragedy. (Carline Baum ,Bloomberg)

November 16, 2005 -- Legendary investor George Soros has increased his bet on technology as part of a shopping spree that boosted the holdings of a hedge fund he controls by 44 percent, an SEC filing shows. Shares of Amazon.com, IBM and Apple jumped yesterday after Soros Fund Management filed paperwork showing that it had bought large stakes in the companies in the third quarter. Soros bought 292,500 shares of Amazon.com, worth $13.25 million, 260,000 shares of Apple, worth $13.94 million, and 326,000 shares of IBM, worth $26.15 million. (NY POST)

Civil liberties groups have been criticizing the "sneak and peek" provision of the USA Patriot Act since the law was passed after the September 11 attacks, and Bush administration officials have been defending it. But for all the debate, the provision was not used at all by federal prosecutors in most jurisdictions, including Manhattan and the Bronx, in the year and a half that followed the law's enactment in 2001, according to data obtained by The New York Sun.

`It's really hard to get bullish on bonds,'' said William Hornbarger, chief fixed-income strategist at St. Louis-based A.G. Edwards Inc., which had $316 billion in client assets at the end of the second quarter. ``The Fed's not going to stop here.'' (BLOOMBERG)

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has begun processing a new batch of uranium despite Western pressure on it to halt sensitive atomic work, possibly harming attempts to defuse a standoff over its nuclear aims, a diplomat said on Wednesday.

China is sure to defeat bird flu the way it defeated the lung disease SARS, Premier Wen Jiabao said a day after news of the first confirmed human avian flu fatality rattled the nation. (AFP)