Dave wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:42:47 -0600, "Jolly Roger"
said:

Popular notions are always wrong. Yes, "always!"

Now, you take that popular notion that the earth is approximately round....

In European the popular notion was the world was flat. for several
hundreds of years the popular notion in Europe was that the world was flat.

Several hundred years before Columbus, the popular notion in Europe was
the world was flat. At the time of Columbus the popular notion was just
beginning to change. So popular notion are not always correct

Earlier the popular notion was a theory of chemical bonding called
Phlogiston (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston) It was a popular
theory that everyone believed in. It retarded the true understanding of
Chemistry for decades. Could it be that the popular theory of global
warming is like the Phlogiston theory and preventing a true
understanding of climatology?