[kaylar]

I hope you're right-If AGW does, die here's what may happen : AGW will be allowed to quietly fade from the news media, government leaders and officials will just quit talking about it, "summits" on it will become fewer and fewer....No one will ever come out and admit it's all BS , and the True Believers will keep on feeling holier than thou over their acceptance of the theory, but for all intents and purposes it'll fade away like phrenology. Let us hope so!

Yeah, I do remember MB : He's the rocket scientist who thought Americans killed wild game and fought off hostile indians with their bare hands, because wills hardly ever mentioned guns being bequeathed. This proves there *were* no guns in the American colonies, or in the early United States, prior to the civil war. Just as today's wills rarely mentioning microwaves, cell phones, computers, and MP3 players shows hardly anyone owns those, either.

[Nervous Tick]

With Bellesiles, the key point is not that his premise was flawed, but that his methodology for proving it was fraudulent:

“Questions of scholarly misconduct eventually became so clamorous that Emory University both conducted an internal inquiry and appointed an Investigative Committee of outside scholars. Both committees found serious flaws in Bellesiles’s work, with the external committee questioning both its quality and veracity.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Bellesiles

>> but for all intents and purposes [global warming will] fade away like phrenology. Let us hope so!

Amen!

FRegards