I have no argument about what you point out. Mainly, because it doesn't seem relevant in light of the facts. Namely that our current temperature is almost back up to what it was 1000 years ago, but not yet back to what it was 5000 years ago. Apparently we are still below the average temperature for our current interglacial period. There are all kinds of implications here.

• The Earth has been cooling since about the time of Christ. Shouldn't the people who claim CO2 is the boogey man explain that trend first?
• We're starting to warm back up to conditions in which civilization best flourished: The Holocene Thermal Maximum allowed the beginning of civilization and agriculture, the Minoan Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, and the Mediaeval Warm Period were times of plenty and advancement. Considering how well humanity did in warmer times than this, a finer grained assessment of the risk vs. rewards should be made, as opposed to a Hollywood scare treatment for the ignorant masses. That reeks of an ulterior motive.
• And given the most of the Holocene has been warmer, any life forms which take longer than 10,000 years to evolve obviously have no problem with warmer temperatures than now, so what's with the crap about polar bears becoming extinct?

I wish I had mod points. +1000 to you.

Absolutely right. And when someone who actually knows math and statistics (as opposed to climate "scientists"), and who are knowledgeable enough to consider influences outside the earth's atmosphere (as opposed to climate "scientists"), find that the planetary and lunar orbits fit the temperature cycles better than the climate "scientists'" models do, why does anyone (except media whores) even bother to listen to them any more? http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4639

What's even more depressing is that some people actually believe what politicians say. And if you believe what a politician says about science, I want some of what you're smoking.

No, I think he means all the sheep that blindly accept the hyped up media version of what about 12 rabid climate "scientists" are preaching. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/12/30/lawrence-solomon-75-climate-scientists-think-humans-contribute-to-global-warming/

The believers sound so sanctimonious because AGW is a religion.

The period we are in now is among the coldest of the last 10,500 years. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/28/2010%E2%80%94where-does-it-fit-in-the-warmest-year-list/ That can't make the warmists happy.

Why should politics have anything to do with it?

is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30neidermeyer.html

Linux is bad in my experience. OTOH, Opensolaris fonts are as sharp as anything I've seen. FWIW.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/primer_on_gasoline_prices/html/petbro.html

Then the solution is to get everyone in Australia, western U.S., Iran, Phillipines, China, Indian, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Mexico and Pakistan, Yemen, Balochistan; dozens of other areas where agriculture or aquaculture is depleting the aquafers, to move to Ohio.

Hey kids, TFA points out that there's a person at the controls. It's not like this killbot that went berserk and killed nine people in S. Africa:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki/

http://gizmodo.com/312443/robot-cannon-goes-berserk-kills-9

BTW, before you (correctly) point out that prisonplanet.com is something of a nutjob web site, that's irrelevant. Those are either quotes by Tillerson or they're not.

Discounting data because of the source is exactly what my original post was trying to expose as erroneous. It's either true or it isn't regardless of whether the source is your mother, Hitler, or Exxon Mobile.

Since this AC was modded up to 4 and counting, apparently there are still a lot of gullible sheep who believe the spin that skeptics are funded by Big Bad Oil.

With all due respect (ha) to WWF and Sierra Club propaganda, those of you who are of this persuasion may be interested in looking a little further than the latest issue of the "Weekly Weenie".

See, for example

http://www.prisonplanet.com/oil-companies-support-global-warming-alarmists-not-skeptics.html