Since the discussion of global cooling has popped up a few times in this thread, here is a recent research paper from the NOAA.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/csi/ima...ateWarming.pdf
They conclude:
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[I]t is reasonable to expect that the natural variability of the real climate system can and likely will produce multi-year periods of sustained “cooling” or at least periods with no real trend even in the presence of longterm anthropogenic forced warming. Claims that global warming is not occurring that are derived from a cooling observed over such short time periods ignore this natural variability and are misleading.
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Originally Posted by Dan02
I take issue in the fact that these scientists want to toss around literally trillions of dollars based on what can at best be described as incomplete science.
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I don't understand this, can you explain? I don't see how scientists could throw around this kind of money, governments definitely and corporations perhaps, but scientists? Really?