@Chris - I love the Jon Stewart piece you linked to yesterday. :) Here is some food for thought that doesn't involve climate models, equations, or complex climate data. If we had reliable data from non-biased scientists that proved the climate was warming, we still have failed to prove the cause is from human activity. This is the central question to this entire global warming theme. Those that tell us global warming is from human activity want to tax that activity, sell products that reduce carbon output for businesses, and setup a carbon trading market. What if the Earth was getting warmer? Could it be caused from cyclical climate changes that have very little to do with us living here? We know the Earth has been through an Ice Age in the past. Obviously we have experienced some level of global warming to bring us to this point. Anyone think we came out of the Ice Age from prehistoric man lighting too many camp fires? Also there is evidence that shows Mars is getting warmer too. Anyone want to argue Martians are using too many fossil fuels? This is clear evidence that any climate changes we may be experiencing are caused from something other than our activity. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html Another thing is these scientists can't get their story straight. I vividly remember sitting in my fourth grade classroom reading a Weekly Reader that scared me into believing we were going to freeze to death if we didn't change our ways. Within a few years, the story had changed into how we were all going to die from the extreme heat. Today, Global Cooling and Global Warming are being called Climate Change, because it has become clear that no one can predict what changes are going to take place. It seems that supporters of this theory just latch on to whatever extreme weather conditions we are experiencing at the time and tell us it is the result of Climate Change. Sorry, that isn't to impressive from my perspective. The same people telling us these record snow falls are from Climate Change are the same bunch that told us we were going to bake like banana bread from the extreme temperatures just a few years ago. Another interesting point are the leaders at the head of this movement are doing very little to change their own lifestyle. I'm in middle Tennessee, home of the great champion of climate change Al Gore. In 2007, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research posted Al Gore's energy bills for his Nashville home showing he used more than 20 times more energy than the national average. This is just for his Nashville home. I also have a boat docked less than a hundred yards from him on Center Hill Lake. He has one of the biggest houseboats on that lake. He has attempted to camouflage it with a solar panel on top and named it Bio-Solar One, but he is plugged into shore power just like everyone else. He also travels the country on private jets. This is the man that wrote in "Earth in the Balance" that the combustible engine was a bigger threat to mankind that terrorism. Huh? I believe those that are truly for clean and renewable energy sources should stand up against this nonsense. There are plenty of reasons to move to alternative energy sources that don't involve carbon markets, carbon credits, and carbon taxes. These things only turn people away from seeking a solution. If we can develop clean energy sources that make economic sense, then consumers and businesses will begin to use these new energy supplies and there will be no new taxes required.