[DanST4]

It's easy to assess each statement if you take off the tinfoil hat and look at the facts without listening to the schril screams of people like Al Gore.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

...Mankind has little or no impact on the sharp peak in production of Green-house gases over the last, er, 150 years...

It's important to separate fact from theory. The emission of certain gases has increase with the increase in population over time. It's also important to remember that "greenhouse gases" is a theory.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

... nor any quantifiable impact on "Global Climate Change"...

It's a fact that the Earth's atmosphere gets hotter with an increase in Solar Intensity - that's a fact. It's a theory that Earth's atmosphere gets hotter with an increase in CO2 content of that atmosphere - that's a theory.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

... You are of course correct that efforts to cut CO2 emmisions will only harm the economy, and not heal the environment...

That's a fact. The only way to reduce the emission of CO2 is to reduce growth. If you want to dramatically reduce emission of CO2 you must dramatically reduce growth. And thankfully that ain't gonna happen.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

... The melting of the polar cap is a natural occurrence...

Fact. More importantly, total polar ice mass is increasing! The Global Warming fanatics point to a recent three year period and then extrapolate forward from that point. It just so happens that that three year period they conveniently picked is a particularly warm period. Look back over a longer period and it's a perfectly normal cycle of heating and cooling.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

... There is no Global Warming caused by Humans...

Global Warming Caused By Humans is a theory.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

... Iraq has WMD...

The United Nations verified the existence of WMD in Iraq in the 1990's. The United Nations verified the fact that Iraq used WMD at least 5 times. The United Nations concluded that Iraq had not provided sufficient proof that those WMD had been destroyed. It is perfectly rational to assume Iraq still had WMD.

Originally Posted by Le Kiwi

... Yep, you are a scientific kinda guy, Dan.

Thank you, I prefer science over political agenda and pseudo-science.

Pseudoscience is any body of knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that claims to be scientific but does not follow the scientific method. See Al Gore for examples of modern-day pseudo-science.