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Thanks for your reply. I am a SKEPTIC because the basic science has not been done. Here is why.

1) The only way for earth to warm is for the generated and received heat to exceed that radiated to space. It does not matter how much CO2 is in the atmosphere or any other factor. Only an excess of energy remaining within the atmosphere can generate warming period.

2) I will make up my mind when the energy budget has been demonstrated. We have the resources to do this.It is a very simple equation that leaves no doubt and is provable and repeatable. The hallmarks of good science. Instead of speculation and computer models, just take the measurements and find out the facts. The physics is simple.

3) Whenever I hear people chanting a mantra that sounds a lot like religion rather than science, I think of them just like the used car salesman. They are trying to pull something. So until I see real scientists doing real science backed by real facts and repeatable experiments, I will continue to be skeptical.

I'm sorry but those emminent scientists Al Gore, Knute Gingrich, and Imhofe (all politicians) have exactly nothing to say that I care to hear. They not only have no standing, but I doubt seriously they they want anything but more power and money.

It is a sorry state of affairs when scientists must pursue grant money with strings attached. Grant proposals always begin with a premise..."I'm going to prove xyz" not "I'm going to investigate xyz and find out what it means". Which agency is going to give out money for that? Certainly not the EPA, or DOE, or any other agency I can think of. They all have their own agenda and the funding is carefully doled out to those who can advance that agenda. It is not a conspiracy, just human nature. Would you give money to someone diametrically opposed to your views? Or even someone who did not agree at least in part with your thinking? I think not. Yet that is exactly what science demands. Skepticism. Always question your results. Always try to prove yourself wrong. You can never prove a thing true, you can only disprove it. That's why they are called theories. Even the old "Laws" have succumbed many now relegated to the status of theory but still used because in the macroscopic world they still suffice to explain things while in the world of the ultra small (quantum world) they no longer work.

Yes, I want to see the science. Because popular causes and political agendas scare me. these people hop on the bandwagon because they see some gain either power over me and you or money or both. It is almost certainly gauranteed that it is not altruism.