Gilligan wrote:

Consensus indeed!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-sunspots.html


Do you even bother to read the links you post?

'Cause some of them don't support your case. Mostly the ones from real
sources like National Geographic.

So, a brief set of clues for you since you seem to be devoid of a ticket
on the clue train:

o There is overwhelming consensus that the earth is getting warmer.
o There is general consensus that human activity (mostly burning
fossil fuel) is responsible for some of that warming trend.
o There is a variety of opinion on how much of the warming trend is
due to naturally occuring processes and how much is due to human
activity. Few, if any, scientists claim that it's 100% due to
human activity. Likewise, few claim it to be 0%. Consensus is
that it's somewhere in the middle, but there is no consensus about
exactly where in the middle.
o The predictive models are all over the map. Like predicting the
weather, making accurate predictions about exactly what is going
to happen is far from an exact science. It's like trying to
predict the exact path of a superball bouncing down a stairwell -
you know it's overall path will be down, but predicting each and
every bounce is not possible. Don't expect unanimity here, because
you won't get it.

As you can see, the scientific community is still hashing out many of
the finer points. To point at some of these minor squabbles and say
"Look! There's no consensus!" is to entirely miss points one and two
above.


But I hope you had a good time last night doing the midnight Google
thing. You seem to have worked yourself up into quite a lather by the
fifth or sixth post. Hope you're happy. Do you ever sail anymore?

//Walt