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Here is a climate science blog on the topic:

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Will these people never understand the difference in "weather" and "climate"?

Back in the 70's, all the scientists and professional hand-wringers were having a hissy fit about the next ice age. Somehow, I missed that whole ice age thing. I wonder what I'm going to do with this giant pile of coal that I've amassed in my back yard? Hmmmm........I guess I could just light it on fire.

I'm glad the earth's warming up. As a matter of fact, I was just remarking to the Mrs. the other day "Dang, it seems to have warmed up a tenth of a degree over the last 20 years. It was never this warm when we first moved here. Well, except for 80 years ago. Records show it was this warm back then to." Hey! What a minute! What if the earth's temperature fluctuates? That would mean that all of this hoopla about climate change is meaningless. Unless, of course, there's an ulterior motive to all this climate change nonsense. [stroking chin and looking up at nothing in particular] I wonder what it could be?

are the "global warming deniers" affiliated with the "ACORN voter fraud" deniers and the "Dan Rather scamming Bush National Guard service" deniers? That would be interesting. What if their all part of the same group?

Does this mean I should move into a cave…???

The old global cooling hypothesis or at least the popular magazne version can be found at:
view link Hannity, Limbaugh and the other radio entertainment show hosts have rewritten it to their likes. In the science community it was disected by peer review and it is questionable whether it made it to theory status.

Currently there is no cooling theory that competes with global warming as to explanatory ability or predictability.

... there never was an ice age predicted because we're in a warming trend either -- except the neocons lol.

You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.

That probably will be a problem for our resident neocons that believe the world is only 6 thousand years lol ...

SB's graph shows what most of us who have any kind of awareness know .... the graph is definitely going up temperature-wise. Some scientists talk about mini ice-ages preceding big warm-ups. Ocean levels are rising. Ask the Inuit, for example.

Some interesting links (no, none are from Drudge, lol)

Insurance companies and climate change

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Poor Asians most affected by climate change

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Inuit and climate change

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My personal climate change focus:

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I sent some stuff to Drudge; he didn't print it lol ...

Actually, measuring the temperature of the atmosphere doesn't measure the global warming; it measure's global atmospheric warming. We really want to know if the heat content of Earth's surface (atmosphere, oceans, land surface(to a few feet down) and cryosphere (ice sheets and such)) is rising in total.

As torry points out, there is a difference between short term (weather) and long term (climate) behavior. For example, 1998 was the hottest or second hottest year in the atmospheric instrument record (depends on the series used). The main reason for that is because there was a very strong El Nino that year. What that means is that the Pacific Ocean gave up heat to the atmosphere. Then 1999 and 2000 were years when the atmosphere warmed the ocean and those years saw the global atmospheric temperature way below trend.

So things are much more complex than most of us realize. Some of us don't even bother thinking about the complexity or the severity of the crisis. That's a moral failing in my view.