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...the author compares estimates of human-generated greenhouse gas effects with total greenhouse effects, which have existed for as long as the planet has had an atmosphere.

Exactly. Ice ages have come and gone long before SUVs roamed the earth.

By swallowing the article's conclusions, you are accepting a naive model that counts all gas contributions independently...

Actually, I'm pointing out that the alarmists are not following the data.

...do a Google search on 'Dr. S. Fred Singer.

Indeed. Here's a great interview.

" Whether or not human beings can produce a global climate change is an important question. This question is not at all settled. It can only be settled by actual measurements, data. And the data are ambiguous. For example, the data show that the climate warmed between 1900 and 1940, long before humanity used much energy. But then the climate cooled between 1940 and 1975. Then it warmed again for a very short period of time, for about five years. But since 1979, our best measurements show that the climate has been cooling just slightly. Certainly, it has not been warming...

Well, you certainly find an association between carbon dioxide changes and temperature changes. Now, scientists have been very careful to just call it an association without identifying which is the cause and which is the effect. Politicians have been less careful. In fact, our Vice President, Al Gore, has a standard presentation where he shows the results of the Antarctic ice core (called the Vostok core), and you see changes in temperature and changes in carbon dioxide. And he points to this and says, "You see? These carbon dioxide changes caused a temperature increase in the past."

Well, it's not so. In fact, in early 1999, there was a paper in Science in which they have now gotten adequate resolution so they can measure which came first, the temperature change or the carbon dioxide change. And guess what? The temperature change came first, followed by the carbon dioxide change about 600 years later. This means that something changed the temperature, not the carbon dioxide. But then as the climate warmed, more carbon dioxide apparently was released from the ocean into the atmosphere...

Well, as I mentioned earlier, I have no doubt that an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should lead to some increase in global temperatures. The question is: How much? We do have some way of getting a handle on this problem, because carbon dioxide levels have already increased by 50 percent since the beginning of the industrial era--let's say, in the last hundred years. So where is the temperature increase from this? Why don't we see it? This is the way to ask the question. "

Sorry, I follow the data, not hysteria. Here's your Google research project: Stephen Schneider, proponent of global cooling - no check that. That was in the 70s. Later, he needed more funding and now he's on the global warming camp. Straight up guy: "To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest."

Well we know which we he swings. At least for today. Or, how about Ben Santer? He was the lead author of the 1995 IPCC paper. The conclusion of over three hundred scientists was that was no evidence of anthropological causes behind climate change. He didn't like that conclusion, so he just changed it. Against the rules. And got caught and was blasted. Here's the funniest part:

Kilimanjaro Melting?

No, kids he's just fooling. :)

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