The fact that many scientists have bought into it is not crucial at all. MANY DO NOT. What people should do is think for themselves and look at the FACTS. There is a sheep mentality among scientists unfortunately. It is human nature.

And they should ask questions. For example. Why is Antarctica cooling?
Why is the planet Mars warming? (and other planets in our solar system), why are the glaciars in New Zeeland and Norway GROWING? And surprisingly many other places. Even some of the glaciars “Dr” Gore is using in his film is actually growing. Check it out yourselves..

And start to THINK how come the media does not report REAL NEWS like the fact that THOUSANDS of people die from starvation and malnutrition EVERY DAY.. they seem obsessed (at least in Europe where most people have lost touch with nature and its forces) about Global “warming” and not much interested in much else. I have not read anything in the European press about this switch from 1998 to 1934 for example. The media seems like a propagandamachine for a certain political movement. Insane.

I hope there are enough sensible people in the US to put this is perspective.

regards from Norway

Great point about the fact that no single scientific study stands on its own, but i think it’s often not the researchers that blow things out of proportion, it’s the media. This is exactly what happened with Global Cooling in the 70s, it was a scientific theory not yet explored, and the media ran with it before any actual studies and research were done.

The irony here is that it is in fact the Global Warming skeptics who take one little factoid here or there and try to blow it out of proportion. Those who accept the likelihood of Global Warming have thousands of studies to back them up, not one or two.

Great point – and of course the media doesn’t help because they leap on any little factoid and blow it all out of proportion –

a great example of this is, again, the fact that so many people, even here, keep saying that in the 70s there were all these peer reviewed scientific studies predicting global cooling – simply not true
http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/iceage/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=94

And yes, I’m citing internet sources, but if these sources are wrong, if there were scads of peer reviewed studies and scientific organizations backing the theory of Global Cooling I’d love to see some links and evidences.

My main point here is that until now, nobody checked up on the NASA study, it was simply accepted as a fact. NASA deserves some credit for having fixed the data, but the mistake should have been caught much earlier. As in, before the government decided to put out a bunch of press releases about it.

My criticism is that this happens all too often when climate change is the topic. Not that it doesn’t happen in other fields, but they usually don’t result in quite as extreme of a reaction on any side.

Here’s your jester’s hat. Make me laugh!

Oh.. sorry… I’m not supposed to be intelligent or have an opinion, because I’m a comedian.

And please always remember, as my people have noted to many a schoolchild – 7 ate 9. JUST like the Jews eat the Christian babies.