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To: LoneClone who wrote (20847)	5/17/2008 11:13:53 PM
From: The Vet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25575

Loneclone, as you say one study means nothing, but advocates of the theory that man made CO2 causes global warming should build that argument on a sound basis. The burden of proof falls on the ones making the argument and the basic premise of that argument, that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere due to human activity actually causes global temperature rises has not been demonstrated. I could just as easily postulate that global warming was "caused" by the failure of modern society to burn witches at the stake, on the basis that as the activity of burning witches declined world wide, global temperatures have increased. It is just as statistically significant as most of the CO2 studies linked to global temperatures and also just as meaningless. As the proposer of the "witch burning" hypothesis it is my responsibility to provide the proof. It is not up to the rest of you to disprove such a obviously flawed pronouncement.

To: LoneClone who wrote (20847)	5/18/2008 12:33:17 PM
From: The Reaper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25575

The correlation between solar flare activity and global temperature has been shown many times. Unfortunately, the global warming group decides to ignore that theory even though it has more data points than any CO2 study I've seen. I'm well aware of how "science" works. With a BS in Biology I've had to do my share of replication of experiments to "prove" hypotheses. In my opinion, the global warming crowd is stuck on CO2 as the only reason for temperature change solely for the reason to extract more money from the U.S. in many different ways and not only from "carbon credits". I'm glad the U.S. never signed the Kyoto Protocol. It was pure unadulterated extortion. Until the tree huggers throw in China as a environmental "bully" just as they label the U.S., they have no credibility.