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I did read the article... and 15 others, every day...
I know that we have been watching the sun... and measuring and recording... since the mid 1600's.
However, our tools have only been good enough to measure some of this stuff for the last 50... some would argue that it has been much less than 30 years, as the mid-1970's brought about the NEW ICEAGE scare.

Here is what I know...
1. our models are not even good enough to model clouds, let alone the antagonistic and/or synergystic mechanisms of an entire climatic system... so... we leave out the clouds entirely. What else are we leaving out?

2. There may be as many as 7 different solar cycles all going simultaneously... we measure two of them, as we didn't even have the ability to SEE these cyclec until the 1990s. Thus we have never been able to measure them... I do know that our sun is a VARIABLE G-type star, and its solar output fluctuates over time. I do know that there is a "galactic environment" that we have only just begun to examine.

3. Global Warming IS occurring... on Earth and Mars, and Jupiter, and Pluto... NASA has measured it... repeatedly. Are humans responsible for warming there, too? Or could certain commonalities be responsible? We DO exist in the same solar-system, in the same area of the galaxy. Might there be a connection?

4. I have two peer-reviewed papers here in front of me... one says that atmospheric CO2 increases as a result of warming, the other says that CO2 CAUSES warming. Which is correct? I've even seen data that shows global sea-levels DROPPING... right now. Again, Who is Correct? Where is the miracle consensus?

5. The IPCC dictates results to the scientists instead of the other way 'round... so, who has an agenda? Follow the money, I always say... who stands to make the biggest profit?

6. Gadgillions of dollars stand to be made from the Anthropogenic global warming hysteria propagated by the IPCC and international media. A new market (Carbon Cap and trade) has been invented out of thin-air to save us all, and the very best one can hope for, if you disagree or question, is that you will be marginalized and discredited, and accused of "spouting." The worst, so far, are the professional witch-hunts directed by the global-warming people against the non-global-warming people.

7. Recent estimates by those in the U.S. Congress say that the cost of solving global warming could be as high as "an addition 40% beyond the current tax-burden of the average citizen." Thats a lot of money to spend without concrete science to back it up.

If this is as big an emergency as everyone says, then why all the conflicting science? If there is a consensus, why is everyone disagreeing? I suspect that it is because there is no consensus, and we don't know what is going on... and everyone has a chip-on-their-shoulder because they are terrified of being wrong (its embarassing, you know). Data is manipulated and/or ignored if it doesn't match a scientist's pet theory... and this is what we want to base international policy on.

If an individual pops in and says "I disagree with this because of X," then the name calling starts. I don't get it... aren't we all grown-ups here?

There will be no solution as long as insults fly instead of answers.