[GSlob]

Greenpissers. What else to expect from them?

[alumleg]

I think we need to be a little more open-minded here. There are the people who brought us GPS and men walking on the moon. They're only trying to keep us from harming ourselves by taking a shortsighted view of man's dominion over the earth. Are you really so sure you can neglect your children's future so cavalierly?

[Calvin Locke]

I had Art Bell on the pillow speaker last night. I couldn't take either his view, or his first guest's view of
"global warming", and had to turn it off.

"We have to give up meat because the methane from farm animals is a much more serious 'green house' gas than CO2..."

"If you follow the trend line, the polar caps will lose all their ice in X number of decades...."

Art baby, what about all the other planets in solar system that are heating up, without the presence of man or the
next cow in line for my steak dinner?

[Publius6961]

Donald Kennedy is possibly the most highly respected science journalist in the nation.

Nevertheless, merely a journalist.
You probably don't want to talk about Dr. Richard A. Lindzen, a member of the IPCC committe who said,

When the report's summary came out, he was dismayed to read its conclusion: "The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate." "That struck me as bizarre," he says. "Because without saying how much the effect was, the statement had no meaning. If it was discernible and very small, for instance, it would be no problem." Environmentalist Bill McKibbon referred to this phrase in an article in The Atlantic in May 1998: "The panel's 2,000 scientists, from every corner of the globe, summed up their findings in this dry but historic bit of understatement."
In an angry letter, Lindzen wrote that the full report "takes great pains to point out that the statement has no implications for the magnitude of the effect, is dependent on the [dubious] assumption that natural variability obtained from [computer] models is the same as that in nature, and, even with these caveats, is largely a subjective matter."
His credentials?
Prof. Lindzen is a recipient of the AMS's Meisinger, and Charney Awards, and AGU's Macelwane Medal. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, and a Fellow of the AAAS1. He is a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Ph.D., '64, S.M., '61, A.B., '60, Harvard University)

Respected indeed!