Sorry for this diversion from storm chasing. I had to post this link to Roger Pielke's blog. He articulates a lot of what I've been trying to say over the past few year regarding the whole global warming thing. The climate models that policy makers are quoting are nowhere near as mature and ready for primetime as folks seem to think they are. Unfortunately anyone who dares to question or (horrors!) disagree with the global warming crowd is immediately branded a simpleton who can't be trusted and shouldn't be listened to. That's not the way I was taught the scientific method...I thought we were supposed to question and test everything until proven absolutely unquestionably true. Even then questions should still be encouraged to improve our knowledge, not shouted down in hostile public forums.
Should we be concerned about what we're doing to our environment? Absolutely!!!! But let's not base our solutions to a complicated interconnected web of causes and effects on incomplete modeling and political grandstanding.
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