[NeilBlanchard]

Listen, the scientific consensus is the global climate change is being affected by human activity -- that is the reality. Sure, there are doubts and unknowns, and science is finding out about the unknowns; and the only disagreements on GCC are about the rate of the changes, and minor details. But, there is no scientific doubt about the general causes of this current global climate change.

I'm not making it up, and it is not political. Why is the US military planning for it? Why do they call it one of the biggest threats to our security? They don't do that for political reasons or to part of the in-crowd. No, the military planners are pragmatists.

Why are insurance companies not writing policies for places like Norfolk, VA? Is it because they don't want to compete for that business? No, they are pragmatists, too.

Why are Russia and Canada and the USA and others starting to make claims on the mineral rights of the Arctic? Is it because they are now becoming accessible, I wonder?

Why is India building a wall to keep out the Bangladeshis? Is is because Bangladesh is mostly just above sea level and the sea is rising?

Why are the Maldives looking to buy other land, to move their country to?

You are obviously not convinced and that is your prerogative. But that doesn't mean it isn't fact. Scientific process is the same in all fields of science. If you believe them that there are these tiny things called atoms, and there are even tinier things called quarks and bosons; or if they tell you that the crust of the earth is a bunch of plates that are slowly drifting around and bumping up against each other, and are related to earthquakes and volcanoes, or that out space is infinite, and that light gets sucked into black holes...

If you don't believe in the Theory of Gravity, doesn't mean you will float away -- and eventually you will recognize the reality that the scientists know what they are talking about on both gravity and global climate change, because it will affect you along with the rest of us.