to #52: well said, a model is a model, never perfect, just a fuzzy picture of what could happen… a mere road map, and even then things come up that could never have been predicted.
to #94: please pull your head out of the sand and look globally. the friggan ice caps are melting for god sake! we dont see it as much where there isnt that much weather, trust me. but when you go to places where the entire ecosystem depends on the changing of the seasons, you notice it a whole lot more! Flagstaff ueed to get piles of snow, now not so much and the forests are burning, and pests are taking over. Hawaii hasnt seen much change since i moved here, still the rainest place youll ever step foot. a collgue in Alaska told me that their family cant live in the arctic circle anymore because the ice it too unstable… they had to move where theres land which has endangered their culture.
to #95:well put also. you cant look at a small part, you must see the entire picture. like you i dont understand when this became a political matter either, i too am scared for my future and the future of my child. god forbid my baby has to do a school report on an extinct species and choose the polar bear, or the hawaiin monk seal…
to #99: you really think scientists get all their data from weather stations? please, we are smarter than that! yes its hard to collect that much data, and most of the data we have collected in the past was rather rudimentary, but our blasted technology has brought us a long way. we now have deep ocean sensors (last time i checked no artificial heating there…) and weather balloons the climb high in to the atmosphere (still dont see any artificial heating there…).
to all: when scientists do take data, we take several readings from one location over several days. and its not just one parameter (the thing being measured) either. looking at only one thing is literally like judging a book by its cover, or stereotyping a person based on a onetime event. like the author of this paper he is judged by several people based off of his one article, because he was curious and decided to find something out for himself when most people wouldnt even do that. nobody here could possibly begin to know who the real terry hughes is.
i bid thee all farewell and happy hunting for the scoundrel who is responsible for climate change (thats the politically correct term for golbal warming…)
