It's a very complex situation, Amos, and I'm certainly interested in the various different viewpoints that are being offered.

You can listen to one set of scientists and they tell you one thing. You listen to another set and they tell you a different thing. You have a lot of stuff being promulgated on computer models...but a computer model is only as good as the data which was put into it...and the data must be 100% complete in all relevant factors to render an accurate result! I am skeptical of the computer models which have been used, because I doubt that they correctly worked in all the natural factors. All I can say is that the reading I've done so far has gradually moved me in the direction of feeling that CO2 is not a major factor in causing planetary warming, and that human-produced CO2 in particular is a very minor factor in that regard.

(shrug)

So, I not saying I know for certain. All I can go on is what I read about it, same as anyone else here, and I read many differing opinions about it.

I hope that we can see a more open and tolerant debate of the different theories about global warming in years to come, rather than just one theory being pushed in the media like a religious crusade, which is mostly what we have had in the last decade.

I don't care for any situation where anyone who objects publicly to a mainstream popular theory which has become virtually sacrosanct (such as the current global warming theory...or the official report on 911) is ridiculed, dismissed as a crank, vilified or equated with someone like a holocaust-denier, and then just shut out by the mainstream media and the powers that be.

It gets my back up, and it suggests to me that someone in high places might very well have something they want to hide...or a self-serving agenda they want to push.