The warming and cooling of the earths climate has been correlated with numerous factors including Sun Spot cycles, variance in the Earths orbit relative to the Sun, levels of various atmospheric IR absorbing gases, extent of cloud and snow/ice cover above and on the earths surface, major ocean current patterns, obscuring of the earths atmosphere by increased suspension of particulates and sulfur based chemicals (primarily due to increased volcanic activity), etc

The correlation of all these factors and which ones may be dominant during a given epoch is still the subject of intense research and is more of a guesstimate than firmly established scientific fact.....

With this in mind, it's highly irresponsible to present, as fact, that Man IS the primary culprit behind any current warming trend and to claim to predict with certainty the extremity or severity of any on-going warming trend...certainly the 2006 climate performance doesn't mesh with Global Warming dire predictions; one of the most benign hurricane seasons and one of the coldest/snowiest winters in many parts of North America.....

The current contribution of industrialization to the overall global emissions of C02 is still a relatively small fraction of those emissions that occur from natural phenomena....

The politicizing of Global Warming by the Gore Brown Shirts is a dangerous thing for any institution to support. There can be one and only one standard for scientific fact and when a hypothesis outcome is still inconclusive, the only responsible behavior is to present it as inconclusive; the jury is out, in other words.

Finally, human society has been pursuing control of emissions for over 30 years and has made tremendous strides in vehicle emissions, recycling and other environmental pollution control...........why do we need some extreme effort NOW??

In all likelihood any massive effort to reverse a global climate trend, whether caused by Man or not, would be completely futile and tragic waste of economic capital...

If the eco-Nazis want clean power, why have they opposed the use of nuclear power for over 30 years..if they had worked with industry back in the 60's instead of blindly opposing nuclear power.....we would have far fewer coal-fired and oil-fired generation plants today....

The agenda of the Gore-nics is clear... and its not concern for the climate.

Do not succumb to irrationality and madness....whatever warming is occurring is already programmed into the long term cycles of the earth and any feeble human attempt to divert it will have no effect except to waste precious resources and put money in the pockets of scoundrels..