This post was co-written with climate scientist Andrew Dessler.

Recently Harold Ambler, climate crank and proprietor of TalkingAboutTheWeather.com, published an essay on this site replete with gross factual errors about the science of climate change.

Word is that this was an editorial slip-up; HuffPo doesn't typically provide a place for this kind of agitprop. The essay seems to be gone from the portal pages and rumor has it The Huff herself may address the issue soon.

Regardless, the...