Kansas Votes Forum

Are you on the Flint Hills Center's board of directors? I offer results of an actual survey of scientists on this subject and must wait weeks for an editorial review. You post links to allegedly pirated emails and sail right through. Now I'm getting paranoid!

[quote user="emmayus"]It would be nice if world scientists would AGREE about the nature and cause of Global Warming BEFORE we go putting a tax on a small percentage of a naturally occurring gas in the atmoshphere. This is a scam, to justify a tax that will not be used for any type of green energy! But it will help with a lot of reelection

There is a perception that Republicans put selfish interests first, public good second. My own experience has been that the self vs. public divide cuts across party lines. The most recent example is an alliance between Senators John Kerry, a Democrat, and Lindsey Graham, a Republican, to promote climate change legislation. I recommend this article to

Ah, the Heartland Institute! http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute

If physics trumps hysteria, then you should be willing to test, personally, whether increasing carbon dioxide amplifies solar heating of the atmosphere. You're not going to illuminate yourself or persuade a discerning reader with misrepresentations and extreme language. For tips on how to do the experiment, you might have a look at NASA's "Glory"

For the latest (2009) summary of government climate change forecasts for the U.S., I recommend "Global Warming Impacts in the United States." The full report is available at http://downloads.globalchange.gov/usimpacts/pdfs/climate-impacts-report.pdf . If you're curious mainly about Kansas, read pages 123-128.

Yes, I agree with your definition. However, expertise includes experience. A geophysicist, like a geologist, is more likely than a climatologist to have experience in the oil, gas, and mining industry, not in climatology. He may be involved in climate research; environmental science is, after all, multi-disciplinary. What do you find when you look for

You turn to a geophysicist on the subject of climate? If I were you, I would ask him to help me find an oil deposit. As for his analysis of global warming, I see nothing that hasn’t been answered in the previous post. Have you studied the links, or have you just gone shopping for any scientist, regardless of education or experience, who denies

Yes, those posts caught me by surprise, too. I guess the editorial committee needed lots of time to check my bona fides; meantime, I was repeating the post because I couldn't understand why it wasn't getting through. So, my apologies for the repetition. Do I "get it"? Well, I haven't seen any black helicopters lately, and I admit