I wrote an article which, by some accounts, was not flattering to Al Gore. I have, however, done significant research on the naysayers to man made causes of global warming. As a rule they are not valid sources for good science regarding this matter. Only four out of seventy, who I studied, had any affiliation with climatology whatsoever and fewer still had presented any peer reviewed papers (by other scientists) on the matter. The scientific consensus, barring those with little knowledge of the matter, is that man has, indeed, created a very real problem and that problem is global warming. Personally, I ain’t changin’ my lightbulbs but the fact remains that we emit far too many green house gases.

One additional point is that climate conforms to the chaos model. Simply put: Introducing a variable (man made greenhouse emissions), that was otherwise not naturally occurring, into a dynamical system (weather) introduces chaos (global warming/cooling). While a “warming” will occur, initially, the net result might be an ice age like you ain’t never seen before – let’s just call it the “White Planet” scenario. Physicists (real folks with real degrees who REALLY study this stuff) are not sure why the Earth is not already an ball of ice.