I’ll write this as respectfully as possible, only God is always correct.

Human induced global warming is a hoax, meant to scare people into a global, socialist system.

The United States is the best at looking after the planet.

Get a clear plastic cup and put an ice cube in it. Fill it with enough water that the ice cube is floating freely. Get out your sharpie and mark a line where the water level is. Wait for the ice to melt. Tada! It’s at the same level.

Only ice sitting on top of land (the south pole) melting will result in a change of the sea levels.

The biggest threat to global warming would be if Al Gore melted though. He obviously exists on land and is so cold and dense that if he were to melt, it would spell certain disaster for the industry.

It might just be the sun that is making us warmer. I know that sounds a little crazy, that a ball of fire, “which by itself accounts for about 99.8% of the solar system’s mass,” could have such a profound impact on the temperature

Sorry for being crude, but, no shit sherlock! Duane Lester showed more common sense in that above statement than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)!

We’re closest to the sun when it’s winter in the northern hemisphere and farthest from the sun when it’s summer in the northern hemisphere. It’s the exact opposite in the southern hemisphere. It’s all about how long the days are based on your latitude.

That said, we should receive more total radiation when we’re closest to the sun.

Also, on those climate records from the 1800s, we didn’t have nearly the precision in measurement tools back then as we do today. Laser thermometers accurate to thousands of a degree weren’t even a futuristic vision. Most thermometers were precise to a few degrees instead (kinda like doing a front end alignment via the old string way versus the modern computerized system). Now they want to use those measurements to calculate how many tenths of a degree the temperature has changed in the last 100 years. GIGO. You calculations are only as precise as your least precise measurement. I guess that’s just another day of science class most AGWers missed.

I was in Air Weather Service for 4 years and we sometimes had a hard time hitting our criteria for a 4 hour aviation forecast. Written climatological records go back to the 1850′s or so. There’s not enough hard data to suggest that we’re in anything else but a climate fluctuation that occurs naturally.

My theory is, it’s a known fact that the Earth is on an eliptical orbit around the Sun. When the Earth is closer to the Sun, it’s warmer. When the Earth is further away from the Sun, it’s colder. (where’s the guy from the Guiness commercial when I need him? Brilliant!)

Mankind still cannot control the weather!

And when they say “this is the warmest year in 500 years,” well, first of all, what SUVs were they riding around back then? I heard a lot about horses. I heard a lot about agrarian feudal societies that the GWers would like to see us return to (even though it “peaked” global warming to a higher activity than we’re seeing now (warmest in 500 years means that it was warmer 500 years ago)), but not fleets of Hummers crossing the plains to do battle.

There’s a LOT of bad science, assumptions and extrapolations involved in this entire field of science. In fact, the process of science is proving that you know the way something works by performing repeatable tests under controlled conditions. Can anyone point me to the backup earth they use as a control (versus the flawed, imaginary models) to validate their theories?

Besides, if it’s getting too warm now, what exactly is the perfect temperature? Should we dial the thermostat back to when Rochester being covered by a glacier?

I’ll believe in AGW when someone can propose a model, run it without changing any variables or formulas and it accurately predicts the climate 20 years out. I’m perfectly fine if it takes 30 years to actually run the full simulation, if it can predict that far out without tweaking along the way to make it fit a curve of how the scientists want it to come out (as all current models do).