Global Warming a Tough Sell for the Human Psyche

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NOW A DAYS ITS REALLY TURN INTO A GREAT PROBLEM FOR US.WE NEEDS IMMEDIATELY TO TAKE A STEP TO REMEDY THIS PROBLEM.WE ALL ARE VERY MUCH AFFRAID ABOUT THE FUTURE CONDITION.

SOUMYADIP MONDAL of CA 7:42AM December 19, 2009

There are several "good" reasons people are jumping off the Global Warming/Climate Change crazy train.
1. Scientific myopia. Short term, precise, climate data is a relatively recent field. We're talking less than 30 years.
2. If enough computer models are used it is certain some will show the desired, subjective results.
3. A relatively educated populace understands that there have been periods of warming and cooling in the recent past. Many also know that when co2 levels were 12 times higher than now life on earth flourished profoundly. They also may be aware that sea levels have been rising for thousands of years.
4. It's obvious that politicians, and the scientists they pay, have a dog in this fight. It's made Automaton Al a multimillionaire, a Hollywood hero and nearly a saint.
5. There is nothing but short term circumstantial data indicating anthropogenic
activity as a cause for fluctuating temps.
6. H2O (water vapor) accounts for more than 95% of atmospheric "green house gas. Anthropogenic CO2 is a fraction of 1% and even cutting back an impossible 50% would have no effect on temps.
7. Temps. sea level and ice variations to date are all within historical norms.
In the time it took to read this nearly one hundred people died because Rachel Carson's hysteria caused the banning of DDT. I see many similarities between dogmatic environmentalism and climate science. Together they appear to have morphed into neo-Pantheism - our new State Religion.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:57PM December 18, 2009