"Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue," James Hansen wrote in 2003. Does the father of global warming again feel the need to peddle "extreme scenarios" in 2008? "We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen told a congressional committee on Monday. It was, he claimed, our "last chance" on global warming. Unless we do something now, we're "toast." This is altogether terrible news. I would much prefer to become an English muffin than toast. But if science says we are toast, then toast we shall be. It's SCIENCE. Don't question it. Just ridicule it.

I am not sure science should be 'ridiculed' however unless something is done to help our own workers and countrypeople to make a decent wage, we can't do anything to stop our greenhouse crap.

Might wanna begin by raising gas prices to at least 6 bucks a gallon to stop the crapheads with suv's from driving 90mph (which wastes MY gas as well because they are sucking it up like sponges).

Hey just a heads up to you folks. 15 years ago in college i was taking a geomorphology 201 class at Dickinson college with Prof Noel potter, the expert on antartic glaciers, or at least he was at the time. No one was really talking about global warming back then but he was showing his latest slides from his trip to antarcica and saying he was puzzled because in the last 5 years -- so that would be 20 years ago now, he had noticed that his annual ice flow measuremnts had so accellerated from year to year he was afraid that somehow his stakes were being manipulated because he could not explain such a marked change annual in glacier melt /movement.

He never mention global warming nor did he infer that the changes were man made or climactic. But I think now I can look back and say that he was observing the beginning of a massive glacial melt due to co2 emmissions in the air, caused by us. Stick your heads in the sand all you want like a bunch of ostriches but guys/gals I hope you do not live near coastal ares becuase in the next 25 years they are going to be dealing with flooding like has never seen before in modern human history. Using a denial of global warming as an excuse to avoid cutting emissions, switch to clean energy or scale back your own personal carbon foot print is irresponsible and selfish and could you please explain to my 4 year old why you deserve to waste energy and pollute his air that will further decimate his future world that he will be living in?

It's interesting that government imposed taxation to create measures to alleviate the effects of Global Warming (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) in England have done nothing, as admitted by the government.

Question is, how do you come up with a solution to something that's not a problem?!

I came upon this You Tube shtick performed by the late great George Carlin yesterday. It is a must see for anybody interested in this topic and it appears that the funny man put more thought into his interpretation of this non-issue than all of the pro-GW pundits put together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

Hey, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal!

Now what the 4#$% are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty $hit now!

This can't be happening, man! This isn't happening!

This morning I was actually forced to watch An Inconvenient Truth in an introductory summer bio course. Not once did the professor mention that there is another side to the story of global warming. He presented the facts from the movie as 100% scientific truth. I am actually going to be tested on information from the movie. After the propaganda film was over, I raised my hand and told my professor that I would believe it's a crisis when the people who say it's a crisis, start acting like it's a crisis. I mentioned how Gore's Tennessee mansion emits CO2 way beyond the average household in the U.S. You should have seen the prof's face. Had I actually challenged the facts from the film, I believe I would have been thrown out of class or given a lower grade for the course.

Yeah, my kids were forced to watch The Inconceivable Truth in school. Got to warp them little snappers while they're impressionable, don't you know!

The Global Warming boondoggle is an important facet of leftist Dogma and those who question it in institutions of higher learning where a majority of the leftists live will very likely see their grades affected by Maoist, Leninist and/or Pol Pot like tactics.

I attended a University on the G.I. Bill. So, it was a double whammy for me if I wanted to succeed. I was directed not mention my military service and not to question leftist theory professed by the overwhelmingly Marxist faculty.

Never forget one of my economics professors whose interest in Econ American style was to use it as an example of how “Communist Economics” was superior. Beautiful.

I've got an idea Willow: why don't we just raise the price of a gallon of gas to $20 bucks and go back to the horse and buggy? That would make the Econuts happy. For a while. Maybe.

Probably not though. The only thing that would make them happy is if the human species were extinquished from the planet.

15 years ago in college i was taking a geomorphology 201 class at Dickinson college with Prof Noel potter, the expert on antartic glaciers, or at least he was at the time. No one was really talking about global warming back then...

Kim, if you examine back issues of the newspapers & popular science literature, you will discover that the global warming obsession commenced in 1988, promoted by (among others) Mr. Gore and Dr. Hansen; it helped that a high-pressure zone was that year parked over the midwestern United States generating a drought and subsequent crop failure. If Dr. Potter in 1993 was unaware of this, he was remarkably single-minded in his focus on his field work and family life.

One might also recall that a decade earlier, global cooling scenarios were being promoted by, among other, Carl Sagan and the house organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the decade prior to that, Dr. Paul Ehrlich (of Stanford) and the Club of Rome were forecasting catastrophic famines generated by runaway demographic expansion. To my knowledge, neither Dr. Ehrlich nor Dr. Sagan advocated jailing their critics and adversaries.

Now, tell us all how much econometric literature you have read that report attempts to evaluate the material losses from mean temperature changes.

It is difficult at any one time to differentiate between actual threats and problems (and my money's on peak oil) and recaptulations of what Charles Krauthammer once called the 'eschatological impulse' in the culture. Now is no different.