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[sjones]

After reading this article:
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dlashof/are_you_now_or_have_you_ever_b.html
which apparently is written by a Climate lobbiest who like most, has been reduced to name calling and scare tactics, I thought it's time for some common sense...

If there is one thing is clear, from the rhetoric on BOTH SIDES of this issue, it is that the science is NOT fully understood by ANYONE.  The truth is that all that Inhofe, and all the other "Non Believers" want, is for there to be TRUSTWORTHY research done, BEFORE we pass all kinds of economy killing legislation that puts the US at a disadvantage while lining the pockets of those who preach that the sky is falling.

Take a step back.  The earth is about 4,500,000,000 years old.  Although we can make some GENERAL observations about large scale climatic changes maybe a couple of million years ago, this is still less than one percent of the age of the earth, and REAL detailed data only go back a hundred years or so.  That is a mighty small window through which we are looking, and trying to extrapolate an eternity of data!!

Look at it this way:  If a housefly, with a lifespan of one day were to look at "global warming", and he was born at 8:00am, by Noon he may notice that the temperature had gone from 45 degrees F to 75 degrees F, in only four hours...  He may logically conclude that at that rate of 7.5 degrees per hour, that by the next morning, the temperature should be 220 degrees, having raised 7.5 degrees per hour over that 24 hour period, and he would start an Al Gore-type campaign against global warming to save his children. 

As absurd as this sounds, that may be what we're doing.  We just dont have the data, the knowledge, or the science to understand the implications of what the temperature changes we've read actually mean, let alone the ability to know if there is causality that can be blamed on humans.

In the 80s, we were all being prepared for "the next ice age" by these same climatologists, who apparently need sensationalism to create a demand for their research, to keep them funded.

All I'm asking is that we not destroy this great country because of an overreaction to what we dont understand..  Take a deep breath, let's get some research done... some REAL research, by scientists who aren't politically motivated or funded, and let's see where we are with this in another 10 years or so, and dont try to scare us about what may happen in another 10 years if we do "nothing" because we've already become very aware of our environment as a society, and things are generally getting better, not worse..  10 years ago, you couldn't swim in Lake Erie, and the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River were WAY more toxic than they are now..  Take a look at any picture of a big city taken in the 60s or 70s..  It was WAY more dirty, with raw industrial waste spewing from smokestacks. We've ALREADY cut down probably 90+% on those bad habits..  The sky is NOT going to fall on us..

-Steve