Since you are a self-admitted AWG-denier perhaps you can answer a question I have never been able to get a AWG-denier to answer.

If its not getting warmer, why is all the ice melting? Why is so much ice at both poles and in every glacier in between melting at rates higher than they every have been recorded to do so in the past?

We know it can't be the sun, since solar output has remained in a very narrow range ever since it has been measured.

We know it can't be Milankovitch or other orbital cycles since these predict the Earth should be cooling.

Actually, the ozone hole is still there and relatively large. It will be many years before it "closes".

Simply not true. Vegetation makes a tremendous difference in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, so much so that the records at Mauna Kea show distinct seasonal variation associated with it. Keep in mind that carbon dioxide is locked in wood for very long periods of time unless it is burned, just as carbon dioxide sequestered by algae can settle to the floor of the ocean where it is buried for long periods of time. The problem is that humans are both burning and removing forests at an increasing rate so all that previously sequestered carbon is going directly into the atmosphere and oceans increasing the concentration of this greenhouse gas thus global heating, not to mention the more serious problem of lower the pH of the oceans.

Except for the Palisades, there will be little of New York or any other coast city left in a few hundred years.

"The satellite temp record (also with no hokey adjustments to create warming like GISS) also shows NO warming for the past 15-20 years."

This is a false statement, except for one satellite, whose data was reported without correcting for the descent of its orbit.

Even if it were true, it leads to a bigger problem for the deniers of AWG. If its not getting warmer, why is all the ice in glaciers, ice fields, and ice sheets melting at at rates higher than ever previously observed?

Why is it that not a single AWG global warming denier is able to answer this question? We know its not the sun, as the variation in insolation is too small in magnitude to account for all the melting. We know its not Milankovitch cycles and other orbital cycles since the present position of the Earth, Sun and planets all predict that the Earth should be cooling now rather than warming.

Why are AWG global warming deniers unable to answer why it is that all the ice is melting if its not getting warmer?

"The pro-AGW stuff has ALL been tainted by special interest cash, massaged data, and manipulated peer review and publishing."

So it is your claim that the pro-AGW crowd is spending big money on melting all that ice and thats why its disappearing?

If that were true, why would the price of oil be falling? Have the pro-AGW crowd been secretly using all those new solar panels, windmills, and secretly built reactors to melt all the ice?

If its not getting hotter, why is all that ice melting?

"Now AGW on the other hand still depends mostly on flawed/incomplete computer models,"

That being so, will you kindly explain why virtually all the world's glaciers, ice fields, and ice sheets are melting at rates that are dramatically higher than have ever previously been measured?

We know it can't be the sun, since solar output changes far too little to account for the magnitude of the energy required to melt all that ice.

We know it isn't related to Milankovitch or other orbital cycles, since these hypotheses predict the Earth should be presently cooling.

Even if you could in somewhat show that that climate models are flawed and incomplete, which would make you a superstar in the world of climate science, if you could prove it, you would still need to explain why all that ice is melting so quickly. Keep in mind that the current rate of global mean temperature increase is about 36 times the rate observed during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, when the redwood forests in Wyoming became predominantly palm forests over the course of about 10,000 to 30,000 years and the entire North American mammal fauna changed abruptly.

"Inaccurate" and "flawed" climate models are the least of the AWG deniers problem as they have NO EXPLANATION why all the ice is melting so quickly.

"potentially moving fertile crop zones hundreds of miles"

It is always bemusing to see people think that because global warming will create higher temperatures in previously colder places that food crops can simply be grown in these newly warmed environments. The fact is that much of the reason food crops grow where they do in addition to evolutionary adaptation to specific habitats, is the fact that sufficient moisture and adequate quality soils are also available. Good quality soils can take hundreds or even thousands of years to develop. Many high latitude environments have very poor soils, often having been scoured by glaciers for thousands of years. Likewise, flowering and consequently pollination is affected by day/night length as well as by temperature, so simply because high latitude environments may become warm enough for crops to grow doesn't mean that flowering or pollination will be possible in these newly warmed environments.

The threat from human induced global warming is not simply that humans are warming the planet by burning fossil fuels, but rather very much about how fast we are warming the planet. We are currently warming the planet between 100 and 1000 times faster than would occur naturally and as a consequence we are disrupting the very ecological relationships upon which humans depend for their survival. Although its probably true that a few humans will survive and linger in the kind of Mad Max world we are creating for current and subsequent generations, but the vast majority of humanity is already on the road to extinction within a few hundred years at the current rate of change.

"Nobody has any evidence that we're close to where this is a significant problem"

Except perhaps for those few thousand souls who last week died of heat exhaustion as temperatures climbed well above 112 degrees Fahrenheit in India. A few years before 80,000 Russians died from a similar heat wave. Such heat waves are becoming far more common now and death from heat strokes will continue to rise. This is a problem as even in places like Kansas City, as in less than 100 years at the current rate of increased carbon dioxide induced heating, will have more than 100 days out of the year with temperatures in excess of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

One major problem of "getting there" involves going to places that are about as inhospitable to human life as one can possibly imagine and doing much to destroy the one livable planet we have. The other is that most of the "there" is so far away, that even if we develop rockets that are 1,000's of times faster than those currently available, what we already know about human biology clearly indicates without any doubt whatsoever that no one would survive the trip, which should we leave the solar system would require tens of thousands of years. Even a few weeks in space leads to irreversible eye problems, ignoring other issues surrounding alteration of bone deposition, etc.

Now would be a good time to instead leave space travel to the robots and focus on figuring out a way to keep the planet from overheating and humans from destroying the last vestiges of biodiversity that we all rely upon for our survival.

Instead, let's challenge China to create the most carbon efficient economy on the planet. That way even the looser wins. Wasting precious time on another space race, while the Earth warms at an exponential rate will only produced losers, no matter who "wins" the space race.

You are definitely framing the perspective correctly. However, H1B visas are only a symptom of the larger problem, the ideology and politics of trickle down economics.

One can see the hand of corporations in the new Transpacific Trade agreement, which locks in Malaysia's use of slave labor and America's and China's use of prison and parolee labor as acceptable parts of the agreement. No wonder Obama and virtually the entire GOP are working together to keep the whole things secret until after it passes. It isn't just software development but microcircuit manufacturing as well.

What developments? The emails are a SNOOZE. They show nothing other than the mundane.

The offshoring of high tech skills in computer related sciences will soon turn into a flood as more and more state universities loosing funding to instead support building and staffing more prisons and more draconian law enforcement necessary to maintain the status quo, more tax deductions for the 1%, and more special tax breaks for corporations, all further driving up the cost of education and sending the best faculty overseas and increasing the costs of tuition. Improvements in world-wide networks will only facilitate this trend.

This shift in investment is creating foreign universities that are increasingly more and more competitive with US universities and as things are going now we can soon expect the most advanced research, such as that in particle physics, stem cell research, high speed train and subway technology, and robotics, to be dominated by non-US based enterprises. Its largely a function of ideology on tax policy, which says lets pay as little taxes as possible (especially for the 1%), and consequently invest as little as possible in education and leading edge research (and many other things as well, evidently except military spending, fossil fuel production, and good old fashioned special interest).

Ironically, the solution proposed recently by Saunders, would largely solve this problem by providing free college education by imposing a Wall Street transaction tax that would directly fund education of all kinds, thereby allowing the best and most creative to develop their talents. American exceptionalism notwithstanding, the reality is that human minds and talents aren't so different among countries (the differences lie predominantly in the consequences of geography and cultural history). Consequently, progress in education and technology is predominantly a function of the laws of large numbers and there are simply many more foreigners than there are Americans.

Of course commerce has been global since the late 19th century so large corporations can take advantage of local differences in talent and wages so no one should expect programs like H1B visas and other forms of special interest legislation not to emerge. The fact that they thrive is ultimately a function of lowered US investment in education and research of all kinds and sadly, a modern GOP and a significant fraction of the Democratic Party that have bought into the politics surrounding the ideology that lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy will trickle down to to improve the lot of the rest. Although it may well be true in some cases, the amount of its success is far way too small to overcome the advantage to other nations that invest more in education and research for the broadest possible segments of their populations.