The left gets loonier by the day.

You should also pay attention to Chap. 12 of that report where it is pointed out that the pattern of warming in the atmosphere as a function of latitude and vertical position is consistent with human induced warming but not with warming induced by solar variability.

You are just wrong and you should do your homework before you make such sweeping statements. The consensus on the attribution of global warming may not reach that level of confidence in the theories of Einstein and Newton, but it is close to the level of empirically derived certainty that one associates with cigarettes causing lung cancer.

I see no particular reason to keep an open mind on this as you exhort–that stance is SOOO 25 years ago, to be frank.

-Brother Rail Gun of the Short Path

Stop fleeing from the loony bin guards.

That has to be the most insane thing our resident drag queen has said this week.

We aren’t like you. It isn’t about power. It is about the environment. Seriously.

The “SKY IS WARMING….I MEAN, FALLING” scare is about POWER – not environmentalism…..

Must be running – a busy day is scheduled….

Your hypocrisy astounds me. You’re chiding people for commenting on a movie they know nothing about and having preconceived ideas about it, and then turning around and telling us that you have already concluded, without seeing it either, that it is full of fear mongering and that Al Gore deserves ‘a spanking’ as a result. A trailer is used to sell… he is after all, donating the profits of the movie. Shameless to want those donations to be as big a possible, I know – but try to walk your own talk at least…

I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn…

The people who advocate that belief, as Al Gore does, do so out of political, not scientific, conviction.

If they had any scientific conviction, they would focus on water vapor, which is by far the most significant contributor to the greenhouse effect–about 99 percent.

Knowing this, why does Kyoto propose to only regulate Carbon gasses? Because it ’s goal never was to stop climate change–as Al Gore himself admitted on January 4, 2006.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185171,00.html

Their goal is a worldwide redistribution of wealth, and they don’t particularly care what means they use to that end.

Frequently, I think the problem is that we’ve made our world our business… literally. Mega anything – especially mega corprations and mega governments seem to have a way of screwing up local lives. Just look at what messes global corporations and federal governments have gotten us into… I’d even add mega-religions and blame Constantine for initiating that. The megas are always fighting the other megas to enslave the masses, and be the mega-mega. Nearly everything seems to work better at a local level. Unfortunately, we haven’t kept it there, and now global warming is most definitely global… And, I agree, the answer is local. Remove the megas.

Overturns? Sorry, but talk best of refinements, expansions and better comprehension of the nature. Every “boy genius” doesn’t sweep the whole set of physics, mathematics, chemical, biological, or engineering knowledge under the rug, and invents a completely new one. If not, the humanity would have been reinventing the wheel every generation since the prehistory, and hasn’t. Maybe you drive a horsecart nowadays? Or you drive a modern car with the last technologies, plastics who don’t exist free in the nature, alloys who where developed for rockets 30 years ago, or a brand new GPS system where used to be a compass, at best? You talk as if we where running in circles, and definitively no, we are advancing. Maybe we do some turns left and right, but it’s just as you drive from your home to the work: you do some turns and corners but you definitively advance from your home to your work. If you live in New York, for example, you can drive by a limited set of streets to get from Queens to Manhattan. You don’t need to drive from Queens to Los Angeles and back to Manhattan. “Boy geniuses” who revolution science simply are as the mayor who constructs a new speedway or expands tunnels. It makes a better way from your home to work, but don’t need to redesing all the speedways of the USA or make a detour to Los Angeles.

One example of stability of the great building of science: In 1687, Newton defined the principle (it existed always, but he was the first who defined it formally) of the Gravitation (why the things fall to the center of the Earth and other massive objects). His works were refined by a couple scientifics in the XX century, pricipally, who had better backgroud and tools to define the same idea for the whole Universe. They were, basically, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, but there were a lot of people working in the same field… This means that the works of Newton are less valid today? NO. For example, you know how is called in the meter-kilogram-second system, the unit of Force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram one meter per second per second, equal to 100,000 dynes? It’s called Newton. Guess why. It’s extensively used today in rocket science, avionics, car designing and hundreds and hundres of applications.

And for the theories of gravitation of Newton, yes, Einstein and Hawking expanded it, but only to cosmic measurements. That means that they refined the model of Newton to measure distances to stars and galaxies more accurately, but you can use without remorse the Newton system to measure “small” systems, as plane speeds, car efficiency and almost every physical movement in the Earth.

As you state your believings, I see that your mind is too open, meaning that you believe everything that a would-be scientist says about a vacuum cleaner in a TV ad.