Such statements also come out of biologists discussing evolution.  This is not, however, evidence that they aren't really doing science.  Instead it is evidence that they've been burned out explaining basics over and over again to Creationists and want to get on with their lives.<p>However some do take the energy out for those explanations.  One of the results of their energy is <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.talkorigins.org/</a>.<p>Hopefully some day someone will take the energy to do the same with climate science.  Because as much as there is a lot of politics there, there is some real science there as well.