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[quote=Billcat;379498]Utter nonsense, terry! There is an extremely broad consensus among reputable scientists. You are either not paying attention, or deliberately dissembling.

Fact - there have been zero articles on the anti-global-warming side that have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, while there have been hundreds that indicate global warming is real and with mankind as a substantial cause. (quote]

Obviously you missed my earlier post on peer review.

Why are man-made global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Are they afraid of additional information?

What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1,000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1,000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why? Could it be that they were influenced by Michael Mann, (he of the famous "hockey stick" curve?") He had been quoted as saying, "we must get rid of the Medieval period." Well, it did muck up his nice little graph, so I can understand why he'd want to eliminate it.

It wasn't all that long ago that scientists were warning us about "global cooling" and another approaching ice age. In July, 1974 Time Magazine published an article about this entitled "Another Ice Age?"

There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. The great majority of these are growing not melting.

Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ice mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. The interior of Greeland is gaining ice mass.

The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. Any human activity up there? I think not.

I could go on - but most of the U.S. is in the grips of bitter winter at the moment. Chicago is reporting the coldest weather in 11 years. Even Hawaii is having an unusual cold snap. A little warming would not be a bad thing right now.