I agree that even snide and conniving scientists can be good ones as long as they merely massage charts to look good rather than fudge data. But beyond their FOIA resistance and all of the politics of how much CO2 is warming (or will be) there is one glaring problem. Temperature doesn't seem to be going up beyond what is totally normal. By that I mean actual temperature measured by THERMOMETERS not by tree rings. The temperature records in fact DO go back far enough to judge what is going on. Not many stations, but the ones that do exist MATCH the modern multi-1000s of station data quite perfectly: http://i45.tinypic.com/iwq8a1.jpg

Women (and men) get to specify height and weight and even income bracket. Fine. Then you meet the girl. And the next one. And the next one. They are all OBESE. Rather than go home to porn, after she's gotten you drunk and horny by thrusting her cleavage into your face, you take one for the team and wake up with either a very cute albeit scale-busting fling, worth another dozen goes at least...OR you wake up with a multiple-crash-diet disaster blob of disgustingly amorphous and stretch-marked flesh, the worst being a lack of highly arousing nipple definition, as in even ice cubes wont help much. I even like curvy girls better than I like anorexic ones, but it was too much to have to wade through the seductive and sexy vs. seductive and revolting ones, both of which look great in a support bra and form-altering underwear. So I make the simple suggestion that a site appears, that is *not* a "hook-up" site, in which people must submit a face shot and a full frontal nudity shot. Oh, this would not go down well with co-workers. Idea needs tweaking. How about just a perkiness/paunchiness scale of -5 to +5? Then I could find my somewhat overcurvy soul mate. Ah, body type! Android vs. those others: http://www.weightcontroldoctor.com.au/index.php?page=bodytypes I would then avoid the L's who make up the VAST majority of online women under 5'4" tall (who usually scream out in all caps DO NOT BOTHER RESPONDING IF YOU ARE NOT AT LEAST 5'9-6'3"!!!) and find me some G ("booty") girls. They are healthier too, abdominal fat indicating insulin resistant Metabolic Syndrome X. By my first sentence reveals the central problem of online dating: women are forced to use logic to choose which men to meet, very much unlike in the real world in which a man's non-verbal, non-logical first impression "vibe" utterly dominates. Likewise, online, introverts (like me) seem to be overly "talkative" extroverts and visa versa, so when they meet in person, both are oddly confused, even though complementary introvertion/extrovertion is a great match between lovers! The biggest problem I find with MySpace (but not Facebook) is that all the cute Hispanic girls have 120+ friends who are thuggish looking ganster wannabees with sideways baseball caps on, who snarl while making weird gestures with their fingers.