It’s not just THOSE magazines, Brenda. It’s many others to boot.

The inescapable fact is that there is no such thing as “Consensus on Global Warming”. The final paragraph on Alan Caruba’s post sums it up:

“The problem with folks who absolutely insist that global warming is occurring is that they are desperate to grab at any glimmer of evidence, extrapolating it into a grand theory, all of which always comes back to evil human beings using natural resources to heat, light, and otherwise function in the modern world.”

I used to have great repsect for you PotatoStew, but that really is a low blow. Clearly those who disagree with you are playing on a field of conjecture, guesses, half-knowledge and feelings. For you to throw hard facts into the discussion is really unfair. Shame on you!

Welcome, and thanks for taking the time to reply.

“Some people find it difficult to believe a person could actually educate themselves to a point of great expertise without attending a college or university.”

It’s certainly possible, but when that person appears to be contradicted by people who actually are educated in the relevant fields, and have demonstrated their knowledge by working towards and actual degree, and who have data and studies to support their findings, I’ll tend to take their word over the guy who claims to have educated himself.

And, not to be nitpicky, but about half of our founding fathers attended or graduated from college.

“to say bluntly that humans are producing all the supposed heat that is generating global warming ignores several fact and factors”

I don’t think anyone is saying that humans are producing the heat, though. We are producing increased amounts of greenhouse gases, which are then trapping the heat.

“The Earth experienced one degree of overall warming between 1850 and 1950. Since then it has been cooling slightly.”

Data from the NOAA seems to contradict that statement.

“they are desperate to grab at any glimmer of evidence, extrapolating it into a grand theory”

Considering that this sounds exactly like what’s found at iceagenow.com, why didn’t you have a problem using Felix as a primary source for your article? You admit in your comment above that you’re unsure of how sound his explanation is, but your article appeared rather certain and uncritical of what he was saying.

However, to say bluntly that humans are producing all the supposed heat that is generating global warming ignores several fact and factors. The Earth in previous eras was much warmer than it is now, i.e., during the millions of years dinosaurs roamed the Earth. What accounted for that heat? Fact: The Earth experienced one degree of overall warming between 1850 and 1950. Since then it has been cooling slightly. In short, there has been no dramatic warming in the last half-century, surely a sufficient amount of time to determine if it was occurring. Lastly, the North and South Poles are not melting. The snow and ice packs are growing.

Frankly, I don’t know if undersea volcanoes are generating sufficient heat to warm the oceans, but then it is doubtful such warming is coming from any other source except maybe the Sun. And we do keep forgetting about the role of the Sun, don’t we? It too has distinct, known cycles.

The problem with folks who absolutely insist that global warming is occurring is that they are desperate to grab at any glimmer of evidence, extrapolating it into a grand theory, all of which always comes back to evil human beings using natural resources to heat, light, and otherwise function in the modern world.

Global warming caused by human activities is an established fact, and all the wishful thinking in Bubba brain, and others like him, won’t change that simple truth. We need to move beyond this and start solving the problem since those who refuse to believe will evidently never be part of the solution.