Absolute Insanity!

[TennTradition]

Red X's? :crazy: :unsure: I didn't post any porn, did I?

I'm missing something...

 

[hndog609]

I don't see how you can say that if the term has been prevalent in the literature since the 70s. Furthermore, the no warming since 1998 argument is a little silly when you look at just how hot it was that year. The moving average still showed warming, which is what people who actually want to study this (instead of just throw out the idea) use as a metric. We are cooling or near cooling right now in moving averages..but just barely....which is not unexpected. If, one we continue to warm again, temperatures do not climb to higher levels than those we have seen recently, then I think that this will be a true indication that something is wrong with the science/models.

TT, there is absolutely nothing wrong with what you just said here. The very, VERY troubling issue is that people in positions of power and influence are using this idea RIGHT NOW to leverage every bit of economic and political power they possibly can. They want as far into your wallet and into how you live your life as they possibly can and waiting around only to find out that the models were wrong all this time is precisely the thing they cannot afford to do.

It's a bit whimsical but if someone came up to me and said I owed him a dollar or something bad "might" happen I could be very dubious and still fork over a buck regardless of outcome. That same guy walks up to me and tells me he wants 10 grand...well...that's different. The people pushing all things AGW related want MASSIVE amounts of money and change on our part. Simply stated, I am extraordinarily underwhelmed with the evidence to expectations ratio at this point.