>Using the year 1998 is misleading, as that was an El Nino year, with temperatures well about average. Having said that, I am a global warming skeptic. I do believe man has had an impact on the environment, but I think the global warming alarmists greatly overstate their case. Also, I don't think the earth warming is necessarily a bad thing.
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That may be true, but you haven't heard the GW group (that's not George Bush either) say anything about the earth cooling. Lemmings can do nothing but line up, or so it seems. I ain't no stinkin lemming though. If I thought man were causing the warming, which isn't happening, well, the logic is too confusing. Let me try again, hmmm, if it were a FACT that the earth is warming, I would want to know that. Then, I would want to KNOW what the cause is. Neither of those things have been demonstrated to my satisfaction.

The wack jobs have been saying it's Global Warming because the inventor of the internet said it was, and he had some slick hollywood pals who put a money making scam together and sell carbon credits to fools.

So, since the earth isn't warming, now we have to start bemoaning the fact that THE EARTH IS COOLING! THE EARTH IS COOLING! THE EARTH IS COOLING! THE EARTH IS COOLING! It cannot be a natural cycle of ebb and flow, therefore it must be caused by those evil Republicans.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111