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Thanks for your post.

The global warming topic is usually brought up in the wrong way. It may be advanced in an alarmist way, an accusatory way, and in a way that takes political sides. The people who advance the topic usually consider themselves liberal and vote Democrat. All this has led to a reaction. As a reaction, Rush Limbaugh or someone else may take issue with global warming. So we end up with global warming debates. All the while global warming is undefined. This enables some to shift from one definition to another.

When people ask me if I "believe in global warming," I answer that I believe in global warming after every ice age, and I believe in global cooling before every ice age. That usually stops the conversation.

We have had no end of "experts" who have made exaggerated claims. These include Malthus, Marx, Freud, Kinsey, and Erlich and many others. The oscillating predictions of global climate experts have been exaggerated also. Often these experts have their own terminology that is designed to impress and intimidate. I find that positions that have merit can be clearly presented and be persuasive to both the lay reader and the specialist. Knaves and those who are not fully competent have to hide behind jargon.

Global warming scare tactics may lead to the imposition of great and unnecessary costs on all of us. This should be resisted.

As for the science, the more I read the more convinced I become that mankind does not understand all the factors contributing to climate change. Economists of a socialist bent have had to step back from socialism over the past seventy years as they came to appreciate their ignorance. Climate experts of a socialist bent are simply decades behind economists in gaining a modicum of wisdom.

I'm not a scientist, climatologist, meteorologist, nor do I have any degree in related sciences. I will remain skeptical until I've seen sufficient factual data from one side or the other. And I've yet to see any that's been convincing. Nor am I convinced that anyone, on either side, has developed adequate modeling from which factual data can be generated.

That's my position in a nutshell.