In the battle for public opinion, global warming “alarmists” are shouting even louder while “skeptics” strive to drown them out, claiming hyped-up predictions are the result of subjective, and possibly tampered, scientific climate change models.

The Puerto Princesa Underground River ranks 23 ^rd out of the 28 finalists of the Seven New Wonders of Nature as of September 2, 2009. This ranking, however, does not include the votes from the country in which the entry hails from. Judging from curren...