Orson Scott Card writes a very compelling article that navigates around the issue of intelligent design, Darwin's theory of evolution, scientific dogma and global warming in quite a persuasive manner.

His premise comes down to scientific dogma stifles true science.  Even science that seems "proven" isn't, or it no longer falls under the title "science".  He makes the point that intelligent design is HorseSwaggle, but uses it as a device to talk about the science community.  When it starts censoring new thought and stops the questioning of theories then it is no longer part of science.

I am a skeptic of the global warming hysteria currently gripping the media and political class and eventually he addresses that as well.

Faith in global warming is an orthodox religion, and anyone who questions it is being treated like a heretic, while fakery "in a good cause" is tolerated. The result? Science is over to the degree that the global warming orthodoxy succeed in silencing "dissenters" (i.e., actual science).

It's all a matter of questioning assumptions.  The biggest assumption right now is that humans are causing global warming.  Scientists should be taking this on as the "null hypothesis" and attempting to debunk it.  But they aren't.  They are accepting it as de riguer en masse and moving on to the questions of what to do about it...

To me this is a big problem.  Because all the potential "solutions" are very drastic to society and how humans are developing better lives for more and more people across the world.

If it isn't a problem then we will be doing gargantuan harm to billions of people.  Do we want to do that right now?

...or do we want to make sure?

Me? I think I can wait a bit to be sure before I reduce the world GDP by 2% or more (and you thought the current slowdown is scary.)

Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox.

Seriously go read the article.  It's quite good.