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So far I have seen no science, just ad hominem attacks on those who do not agree with you on global warming. I want to talk about the science of global warming, and more specifically that science which James Hansen testified to in front of a Senate committee in 1988. It is not well known and has been glossed over that this was not his first but his second testimony in front of the Senate. His first time was in November 1987, it was cold, no one wanted to talk about warming, and the media ignored it completely. This did not please Senator Wirth of Colorado, the committee chairman. But if at first you don't succeed, try, try again, and he sure did. He called up the Weather Bureau and asked them to tell him what the warmest day in Washington, D.C. was. It was June 23rd so he booked that day for his next hearing. And to make sure that the air conditioning in the room did not work properly he sent his staff out at night to open all the windows in the hearing room. It worked: the TV crew, the star witness, and the audience sweated profusely and global warming was on every television set that night. It was this publicity stunt that made the establishment of the IPCC possible. But what did Hansen actually say? He said that we were in a warming trend, and that the cause of this warming was all that carbon dioxide we were putting iinto the air. What was true was that carbon dioxide was indeed increasing steadily. What was not true was that it was the cause of this warming. Because, you see, that warming was then just ten years old, having started in 1977. There was no warming whatsoever for the preceding twenty year stretch, but carbon dioxide was then already in the air, obviously an innmocent bystander. But if you believe Hansen it had to change this behavior in 1977 and suddenly decide that it was time to start warming up the world after all. You need powerful voodoo to do this but Hansen had it in him. Just exactly where were those "climate science experts" who let him get away with that fantasy? Science it is not, a miracle maybe, the miracle that became the start of a global warming religion. It is that religion which has brought us the Kyoto Protocol, the cap and trade laws, and now that idiotuc Waxman-Markey bill that members of Congress weren't even allowed to read before the vote was taken. And if you need more science still, satellite observations show that there has been no anthropogenic global warming for the last thirty years. As for the deep past, Daniel Rothman's article "Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels for the last 500 million years" (PNAS 99:4167-4171)(April 2, 2002) puts it this way: "The resulting CO2 signal exhibits no systematic correspondence with geologic record of climate variations at tectonic time scales." Try if you can to digest this information and see if you still can believe that old-time religion that Hansen gave to you in 1988.