2 EDITORIALS ON GLOBAL WARMING STOP BY AND READ THEM...

[CHRISTY]

I FOUND THESE 2 ARTICLES ON THE WEB...
HERE'S THE FIRST ONE...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220

HERE'S THE SECOND ONE....

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=5414

[MiamiensisWx]

The first one is good; however, the second one is politically motivated dogma itself.

[x-y-no]

I see no science, only politics, in either of those links.

[x-y-no]

Here's an editorial I'd recommend:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/311/5768/1673


An excerpt:

So what should the appropriate baseline be for estimating our present climate prospects? Is it the relatively recent evidence of climate change, or is it the developing knowledge from ice cores and the geologic record about past climate equilibria? The Holocene, over its 10,000-year life, has provided us with a comparatively stable period. Now we are changing an important parameter. Evidence presented in two papers, a News story, and two Perspectives in this issue demonstrates an accelerating decay of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Given the concurrent rapid recent rise in CO2 concentration, history suggests that we should expect other changes. Will these changes return us to a climate like the Miocene or earlier? Or will we experience a repeat of the Eemian?

Nothing in the record suggests that an "equilibrium" climate model is the right standard of comparison. We are in the midst of a highly kinetic system, and in the past, dramatic climate changes have taken place in only a few decades. Our comfort in the Holocene may have heightened our sense of security, but the expectation that change is unlikely is not a reasonable position. The central question of today's climate policy discussions centers on whether the change in average global temperature over the past century represents the result of new climate forcing or instead simply reflects natural variation.

[x-y-no]

Regarding the Richard Lindzen op-ed:

I highly recommend this point-by-point reply by Daniel Kirk-Davidoff. (reply number 77 in the discussion)

[Audrey2Katrina]

With all due respect to all the articles herein cited, I am of the opinion they reflect the leanings of the poster... nothing wrong with that, just an observation. Personally, I think that the jury is still out on this issue despite the fact that many others have already reached their own personal verdict.

A2K