There will come a time in the future when my son will look at me and ask 'Why? Who would believe that and why did so many people head down the wrong path.'  For example, I remember asking why things went the way they did in Vietnam (took a while to get the real answers) or why we were having a gas crisis etc.

So I would like to publicly apologize to my son regarding the current crisis du jour: 'Mankind has triggered an unstoppable jugernaut of climate change in the form of global warming based on increasing CO2 levels.'  Son, I don't know why people ignore obvious evidence that indicates this is false (although I have my suspicions), I don't know why they are going to create some really stupid laws, nor why the Supreme Court (a group of law professionals) has taken time to weigh in on scientific theory.

Yes there is alot of money to be made by people taking advantage of those who are ignorant, and yes there are many groups who have alternative agendas which will benefit during this false alarm.  Unfortunately, I think this will end similarlly to the "boy who cried wolf" (not the PC version the version where the boy is eaten) for some of those with alternative agendas (many of which I agree with and think are very justifiable but will be marginalized by their association with the disproving of man made global warming).  Also note: Money grubers will continue looking for money as they have no loyalty to any cause, and they don't care who or what they hurt in the process.

At any rate here is another report of a respected climatologist saying the same thing as others regarding the lack of solid science behind the 'global warming alarmism' and being cast as something less then an expert in his scientific field because his scientific opinion doesn't match the current popular opinion:

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017274.php

Son I hope when we talk about peer pressure this example of how allowing others to think for you and convince you to act stupidly is always a bad thing.  (BTW, that goes for both conservative and liberal ideas, think for yourself! Understand the real facts not someone else's opinion.)

BTW: yes our climate has warmed - so has that of Mars and last time I checked the CO2 levels on Earth had nothing to do with it.

Finally keep in mind - most people agree that mankind is much more likely to create global cooling then global warming.  In fact I was raised hearing how pollution (real pollution not the gas every human on the planet creates with their every breath) was going to create a new ice-age and plunge us into a cold dark world of death.  Even today the threat of a nuclear WINTER not a nuclear melt-down is still the consensus:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/global-cooling-again/ (which has some classic Clash lyrics - don't worry you'll learn about the Clash son, when the time is right.)

http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker17.html - the one sure prediction you can make - the Earth's climate will fluctuate, both locally and globally, over both short and long term periods. 

Note most 'warmnig alarmists' site statistics which include the word 'since' meaning that whatever the given level is, this isn't the first time it's been reached in the history of the Earth.

Update 4/9/2006:

Another respected scientist, this one from the highly respected institution of MIT has come out calling the current global warming hysteria 'bunk' - that's my technical term not a quote.  Read his well thought out and supported analysis here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/  - my favorite line is that the same models which can't predict the weather next week are being sited as accurate for 40 years into the future

Additionally the US Senate has documented several of the failed predictions, inlcuding the fact that the increasing temperatures associated with global warming stopped circa 1998:  http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=264777