This kind of rubbish is not welcome here.

Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education. Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—in the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.” He has authored five books and more than 230 other publications and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world.

Bryson is a believer in climate change, in that he’s as quick as anyone to acknowledge that Earth’s climate has done nothing but change throughout the planet’s existence. In fact, he took that knowledge a big step further, earlier than probably anyone else. Almost 40 years ago, Bryson stood before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and presented a paper saying human activity could alter climate.

“I was laughed off the platform for saying that,” he told Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News.

In the 1960s, Bryson’s idea was widely considered a radical proposition. But nowadays things have turned almost in the opposite direction: Hardly a day passes without some authority figure claiming that whatever the climate happens to be doing, human activity must be part of the explanation. And once again, Bryson is challenging the conventional wisdom.

Post it elsewhere, or grow a brain and stop posting it.

I love it when global warming conspiracy theorists get faced with differing scientific opinions. They just basically yell "Bullshit".

They do?

Yeah. A lot of them do.

Look back at the last page or so. People are so quick to dismiss the writings of a phd in meteorology because they don't fit in with their version of reality. People with no scientific credentials will readily call bullshit on someone, even if that person is an expert on the subject.

None of us here know the real story on climate change. But many of us have chosen which side they want to believe and which facts are actual and which facts are falsehoods.

so whats the real story then?

Heh. Care for a retraction Laura?

I GOTTA BE HONEST
I GOTTA BE HONEST
I GOTTA BE HONEST

The scientists are just being political. They hate capitalism and America.

"Here is the truth: the core of our energy crisis is in Washington. We have all the technology we need right now to make huge inroads in becoming more energy efficient and energy independent, with drastically lower emissions. We have all the capital we need as well. But because of the unique nature of the energy and climate-change issues — which require incentives and regulations to build alternatives to dirty, but cheap, fossil fuels — you need public policy to connect the energy and capital the right way. That is what has been missing.

The public wants it. But energy policy gets shaped in the halls of Congress — where wily lobbyists, legacy industries and politicians greedy for campaign contributions regularly sell out the country’s interests for their own. Only when the public really rises up — as it has finally done against the auto companies — do we even get moderate change. "

So what is it? You got one liberal journalist who says that the people surely want this. But that it's BIG OIL standing in the way. Then you got Psychobain up there sayin' that people just don't give a shit. So which is it?

Do people not care? Or is the government going to force us to care because we're obviously too stupid to correct this problem ourselves, take our money away from us, and dump it into whatever alternative energy outfits they see fit? Say...like multi-billion dollar ethanol plants that take more fossil fuels to operate than they save?

What a great day we live in when there are people out there that want to run the global economy into the ground in the name of something that might be happening.