When Dr. Cullen’s blog appeared, I did some internet surfing on the term “global warming”. There are hundreds of sites out there that all list several “facts” about global warming, and nearly all of them list, near the top, that there is a “consensus” among scientists that global warming is real. Like this should be a “fact” that would sway me into thinking that global warming is real.

The only thing that will convince me is real, measurable evidence. Not a single event in one location, such as a warm Northeast winter or melting in one location, disregarding ice formation in another or cold weather (Denver!) in other locations. You can’t take one day or one season and draw conclusions.

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17977

Mars Emerging from Ice Age: NASA

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice-age_031208.html

Pluto Sees Global Warming: MIT

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/pluto.html

Global Warming on Jupiter: Hubble Telescope

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_jr.html

Neptune’s Moon Getting Warmer: Hubble Telescope

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/120259.stm

The press, pundits, and politicians using consensus to weigh the issues must certainly find themselves quite confused. Perhaps this confusion and bottom line conflicts of interest for all three parties explains why the actual evidence goes largely unaddressed. Pretty charts and cherry picked statistics might be easy to digest but they don’t satisfy the desire many have to understand what’s going on with the climate.

Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the science and criticize actual findings. This way you can avoid presenting the issue as a blind taste test of this brand or that.