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I spent the last 2 months on a sabbatical, and had the time to read 10 or 12 books in my leisure hours. One was "The State of Fear" by Michael Crickton, a novel written about the claims of the global warming movement with footnotes from actual scientific sources. It is written as a good adventure tale that during the telling discloses the environmental movement as a large, hungry bureaucracy like any other, that needs constant feeding and promotion. The really interesting device the author uses is the graphs of actual weather data from stations around the globe that show over the span of recorded weather history there is really no warming or sea level changes at all, just the global warming folks taking short periods of normal variations that illustrate their point of view that something much more ominous is unfolding. My point in recounting this is to reveal how little most of us actually know about the science in this global warming argument. We all see the hype of the gw lobby on the evening news every night, it makes good copy for the media, it lets them feed the state of fear that we needed to replace the Soviet Union as the big bogeyman under our beds. I would like to see more scientific proof and less of fat ol' Al Gore acting like Yoda.
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