I never thought about it that way….

In reality though, as a response to the original article, I think that the lack of AGW in the media is due to the fact that there are much bigger stories (rev Wright and Bittergate) that have been hogging the spotlight this year. Of course thats the same conclusion you came to.

I think there’s also tremendous work done to confuse people. Oil companies (As per Exxon Mobil) spend huge amounts of money funding the extremely partisan “global warming debunking” groups.

In the end, denial of AGW requires denial of many prominent groups, including NASA (which has the largest concentration of climatologists). Ultimately it stems from a couple of things though, lack of immediate and obvious consequences being the most prominent. The other, being what was mentioned so many times already: the weather.

While it is neat to say things like “we couldnt measure the temperature or Co2 levels of the atmosphere in the 19th century” it’s really a lie. There are several ways to test both, most notably measurements of ice. Ice that is decreasing at an ever increasing rate in the arctic.

In the end though, refusal to reduce CO2 emissions do not carry any positive potentials. From the melting of the arctic ice, to the exponential release of what was formerly frozen methane gas (a greenhouse gas) to the acidification of the ocean, one of our greatest food sources.

In the end, continuing production of CO2 on a large scale serves only to benefit those who produce it on such a large scale, energy companies who thrive on oil and coal.

I dont think we have enough data to decide either way about global warming. We do have enough data to support being good stewards of our environment - for us and for our kids.

Yes, there may be those who dont practice at all what they preach, but that doesn’t releive any of us our responsibility to the planet that we all (democrats and republicans) drink, eat, and breathe on.

To me, it isn’t political, it is common sense.

I believe as many do that nearly all of the AGW hype is for political purposes. Al Gore has been shown to be a charleton both in his lying and misrepresentation of facts in his film as well as his contradictory lifestyle.

That said, if these enviropolitical activists really analyzed their arguments, there is a serious conflict. For years they have complained that we are cutting down too many trees and not protecting our existing forests. More CO2 in the climate coupled with warmer temperatures would make for better growing conditions for our forests and farmers. CO2 is not - NOT - a pollutant. It is a critical ingredient for photosynthesis!

Fear! It is what the left uses to try to gain power and marginalize opponents. Live free of fear - support freedom.

John

I didn’t really examine the paper in detail, but the important facts are there. If this could be distilled into something that the general public could understand, along with a few graphics, then maybe Algore and his ilk could finally be exposed for their lies. I recently had the opportunity to work on infrared CO2 gas detectors, and what I learned about CO2 energy absorption makes the truth of the paper’s conclusions painfully obvious: any level of atomospheric CO2 above a minimal amount, well below the current level, will NOT cause any perceptible change in global temperature. If I understand the science correctly, the IR wavelengths that CO2 can absorb will ALL get absorbed by CO2 and water vapor over a certain mininal distance and therefore are completely filtered out within that distance. Due to the conservation of energy, changing the concentration of GHG will only change the elevational distribution of any temperature changes but will not alter the overall temperature change.

I do believe Global Warming will be a disaster for the planet. But it won’t be from climate change, it will be from the extraordinary measures our governments are going to take to “control” it. I guess that is the most amazing thing about this entire debate. Even after spending trillions of dollars, no one really expects it to make any real difference; with the exception that a lot of people (like Al Gore) are going to make massive amounts of money. Of course we all know who will pay for it.

I love being compared to people who believe the earth is flat, and think it is lovely that so many have taken pains to see that my judgement and ability to understand complex issues are so easily dismissed because I do not agree with their statements.

I love the earth and the enviroment, I ride an electric scooter ( because it is cheap ), and believe that people should be responsible for themselves.

I also believe that the Earth, by all accounts has warmed over the last hundred years. Most notebly if you examine the last 29 years you can see that the earth had warmed.

I also can see that in the last decade it has a cooling trend.

I suppose I need to go on a 12 steps program… I need to accept a belief in a higher power ( ‘Scientist and AL GORE’ ) and turn my life over to that higher power… Maybe then and only then I will be able to shake off this horrible, horrible problem of denying AGW… If only I could shut my brain off… Hmmmm… how to do that… Maybe I just need to watch “An Inconvieniant Truth” a few more times that would do it for me…