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When mother nature makes ice sheets grow and shrink it is primarily a matter of solar fluctuations. The evidence for this is undeniable. While the temperatures in the arctic have been warming, it is the wind and wave action that is responsible for most of the recent decline in summer sea ice...

Which, we have already established, are inadequate for any valid comparisson.

Exactly. There's really nothing to compare to.

How long a term?

I'm well aware of the reality of making an impression. You keep dodging the point that making an impression is not part of his job. That's what candidates try to do in order to get that job. Again with the surgeon. Completely unrelated. Unless you mean Obama is training to be one? A...

That sentence doesn't really make any sense. However, I will comment on the gist of the idea. AGW alarmists tell us we have to reduce carbon emissions by 80% to save the planet. Airliner trips are very high on the emissions/per mile compared to other travel. Thus one would assume that only...

So how does surgeon training have anything to do with Obamas personal political promotions?

I expect he'll take the same kind of transportation I use, albeit a bit more luxurious and private. But if he actually believes what he's preaching,then every trip should be prejudged on the question, "Is this trip necessary?". The trip in question clearly was not.

I actually think you do have more than an inkling of what his job entails. Besides which, the article made it very clear that he wasn't doing his job, just politicking.

Common sense would tell me that if he doesn't practice what he preaches, he doesn't really believe it and is a hypocrite. One could argue that if he absolutely had to meet Brown for a vital conference he might be excused. But to do all that just for the proper backdrop? They could have put...

Is that a figure for the world? Perhaps then it might be a good idea to promote western style development to the third world. In Canada and US there is more forest than there was 100 years ago. When you don't need to burn wood for all your fuel, you greatly reduce the pressure on the worlds...

Certainly that's true. It warms the earth (with a teensy assist from the molten core) from absolute zero to its current comfortable temperature so that's a massive amount of energy, more than we could ever need. Problem is, it's very diffuse and collecting enough of it is difficult, expecially...

Yeah, right.

China could start out with less pollution, certainly. And they know they have a problem - living in Bejing is equivalent to smoking 4 packs a day. They're adding 1000 cars per day to the streets of Bejing, most of them manufactured in China. They were going to export them to N. America, but...

Well lets look at the horse and donkey which appear to be divergent species. They can still interbreed, but the offspring (mule) is sterile. Fairly minor change? How long ago are they believed to have diverged? I have no idea, but I'll bet my next paycheque that it was before 2000 years ago...

What you have described is adaption. WHat has happened is the members of the leaf rollers who had the genetic ability to survive the spray survived, and the rest died. Thus the only ones left to reproduce were the resistant ones, and with repeated sprayings, the weaker continued to die out and...

You don’t get out much, do you? OK, a little education for you. Out here, in the big wide world, there are expressions that get adopted in common usage whose meaning is understood by all and sundry (you apparently being the exception). For example, when describing something as being not...

Did I say you were stupid? Or imply such? Not at all. Here’s a little dissertation on the usage of that word: Leftists frequently have the habit of calling their opponents stupid. Apparently this saves them the necessity of countering opposing opinions. A few rightists will do the same, but...

I mentioned them, and when you advised me of your position on them I acknowledged it. I even recall that I praised you on your discrimination while replying to someone else. It is slander to accuse me of continuing to lump you in with them when clearly I have not. As far as cherry picking goes...

Actually no, he hasn’t been refuted, you have. And he continues to add more articles to continue to refute you. If you find it so tiresome, don’t read it. I can’t say that I’ve read every post Walter has made, so I don’t know for certain, but I’ve not seen one post where he defends either...