On Jun 30, 6:05?pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Thought you would enjoy this...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/othervi...REF30b.article

I have previously declined to get into a dueling website battle with
you.
There are thousands of sites on both sides of the issue.

Too bad that so many people can't see how selective reporting of
factoids constitutes a lie, even when those selective factoids are
individually true. Example: Your website crows that the Antarctic ice
cap isn't suffering much melt and in fact may have grown a smidge.
True. There's a very specific reason that your website doesn't meniton
the *arctic* ice cap, which is shrinking dramatically. Visualize a
globe or a map of the world. Basic geography question: Do most people
live in the Northern Hemisphere (closer to the Arctic ice cap) or
Southen Hemisphere (closer to the Antarctic ice cap)? Does the fact
that the Arctic ice cap is melting while the Antartic ice cap is not
support or challenge a theory that human activities may influence
global warming?

If you are really calling for people to consider all of the
"evidence", then excluding the situation at the Arctic ice cap is
hardly consistent. Nor is waving a highly selective series of websites
that agree with your personal guess or some talk show host's opinion.

Here's a thoughtful question for you to ponder. We know that the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (the only scientific
association that disputes the very *existence* of global warming) has
an axe to grind. Reggie has illuminated the Exxon funding behind the
Heartland Group further down the thread. It's pretty obvious who's
paying for the *anti* opinions. So who's paying the scientists not
associated with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists?
Who's paying for the opinion items and highly selective research
summaries not published by Exxon's puppet group?

I could get into a dueling website battle with you, but what would be
the point? After we exchanged a couple of hundred websites, you'd
still be adamantly convinced that because Al Gore believes in global
warming it has to be BS, and I would still be concerned with the
physically measurable changes to the Arctic ice cap, glacial retreat,
and other
factors that are likely to contribute to a change in climate that
*could be* occuring faster than organisms will be able to adapt. (see
"dinosaurs".....those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to
repeat it). :-)