He blinded me with Science!

Johnny Walker, let me introduce you to the Altair 8800. This was one of the first computers, designed in 1975. In the years you like to cite, 1971 and 1974, when the National Board of Science raised the alarm about global cooling, this microcomputer had yet to be developed. It had an astounding memory of 4K. Since you work for a computer company (which I will not name! I've learned my lesson!) I will assume you know what kind of massive computing power that cranks out. I think Clyde recently got a happy meal toy with more computing muscle.

So maybe you could try to understand why one group of scientists in the early seventies got a little confused.

Walk with me, Walker, 34 years into the future. We now have super-computers able to map out your genes, as well as calculate the millions of variables that go into complex weather systems. Look, what else we have! Satellite imagery!

Since 1979, the size of the summer polar ice cap has shrunk more than 20 percent. (Illustration from NASA)

What theory accounts for 20 percent of the north pole disappearing in the last 3 decades? Maybe the ACLU is hiding it! Maybe Moveon.org melted it with hairdryers in order to advance their socialist agenda!

Yes, 30 years ago one scientific body pulled out their slide rulers and made a miscalculation. Now we are in the 21st century, and 15 international scientific bodies are in unanimous agreement, because of overwhelming evidence.

You are basically saying there is NOTHING anyone can say, that will prove to you that the world is right and American conservatives are wrong.

Your logic is like that of Christians who claim that dinosaurs walked the earth with men 20 thousand years ago, carbon dating be damned, fossil record be damned. Because you just can't handle the implications of being wrong.

BTW - Chad and I going to Kelvin Arms tonight. Join us for tasty drinks and fellowship. 8:30.