[quote Winter Hawk - I for one believe Global Warming is real. [/quote]
Winter, at first I thought it might well be true too, in some minor way. But, on further reflection, I just don't think they have sufficent data to support the claims. They base it on a whole degree of warming over the past centruy. Ask, how do they arrive at that?
In 1900, the average thermometer was much less accurate than 1 degree. There were no world wide collection networks to record temps even with what they had to work with. That's not science, it's guessing and there is no way they can ligitimately show what they claim.
The climate chicken littles base part of their claims on "other" evidence. I can accept that they can find INDICATIONS what might have been true in 1900 but anyone who suggests they can do it within 1 degree is loonie!
Thus, what they preach today is entirely based on what they "believe" (if they actually do), not what they can demonstrate! So, Global Warming is their new religion. And they want to be the world's priests/saviours even if there isn't a thing we can actually do to change their Armageddon predictions!
I believe that even if they are correct, and if man contributes to it, we can't do much in the long term. I mean if we do nothing maybe we will reach a certain point in 2100. If we do all they suggest, and devestate the world economy in the process, we might delay reaching that point it until 2105? Big deal.
I no longer believe anything they say, they have overstepped the bounds of legitimate science too many times and too many ways.