Quote Originally Posted by mraynrand
Interesting choice of words there huck. It will grow exponentially. A bunch of scientists sat around a table and decided by committee what the data meant and allocated 1.8 billion dollars to global warming research
Come on now. Climate Science is VERY difficult stuff. But these are not fools. They propose models, and those models are tested against emperical evidence, over time. And the fact that many thousands of people around the world are investigating the problem is a good thing.

I would compare Climate Science to study of the human brain. It is an attempt to model a system that is complex beyond comprehension. Understanding comes with trial & error & misfires, but it comes.

If you want to dismiss the world wide community of climate scientists as a bunch of pointy-headed bumblers, what do you propose we replace them with? Personal observation?

Quote Originally Posted by mraynrand
The economic forces of higher fuel prices will drive innovation, just so long as the greenies don't try to interfere and protect us
Notion that environment could be adequately protected by market forces is absurd. Look where air quality was at and heading in 1970, and how dramatically it improved as the result of EPA regulations. The EPA created by Richard Nixon, BTW.