Yes, thanks, David. I was not surprised to see this ad in Grist, and I think it quite belongs. It's part of the discussion that is "Gristmill." Anyhow, if ads keep Grist humming, amen.

So to the topic...I think it's great that AEI feels they need to respond to the "let's do something about climate change" grassroots movement. Even if it's clumsy.

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Even though it was put together by AEI, they didn't actually say much which was that disagreeable.

But of course they didn't cover everything I would have liked to have seen.

For instance, that solar forcing is rather obviously causing warming previous to 1970, but has very little effect afterwards.
http://www.greyfalcon.net/solar.png

It also tends to confuse the issue on whether artic ice is melting or not.
(Which should be more clear cut that it is a "net" melting.)
It isn't so much an issue for sea level rise purpose.
But because it's removing massive reflective surfaces in an area which gets 24/7 sunlight half the year.

Or that an average 2-3° rise in temperatures isn't "no big deal"
Since between now and the little iceage was less than 2° C
http://www.greyfalcon.net/moberg2005.png

Not to mention, I prefer the updated IPCC forcing chart.
Since it's pretty easy to see that aerosols (airborn dust) is the only major uncertainty.
http://www.greyfalcon.net/forcing3.png

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So is there any big details I missed on this video on what we know not to be true?

It's not really a video, it's just a half-ass Gore-is-fat style slideshow from AEI's Steve Hayward. There was a story in the NYT about it a little while back.

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Advertisers like that are bound to get nailed by commenters and are unlikely to return as a result. Can you imagine a for profit publication allowing its writers to bash its advertisers? Grist rules.

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Look, the science debate is over. People cause global warming, it's real, and it's becoming severe. Yes, scientists are still debating global warming, the finer points. That's what scientists do, keep debating the issue until everything is known about it, which takes a very long time. But the agreement in the scientific community is unprecedented that we are causing global warming. What they are debating is:
 - how fast will we heat up?
 - are there tipping points for the climate and what are they? (Like will the north Atlantic Conveyor, "Gulf Stream", stop?)
 - how fast will the Greenland and West Antartic Ice Sheets melt? (They thought that the Larson B ice shelf in Antarctica was good for another hundred years. Then it broke up (it was the size of Rhode Island / Belgium) in 35 days. Oops. So maybe Greenland and the WAIS are melting faster than we think too?)
 - how are species affected by the changing climate (when the caterpillars hatch earlier, the birds don't necessarily have their young earlier, so the food supply that used to be there is not, etc. complex.)

If you think some claims are true, or are not sure. go to http://www.RealClimate.com They review a lot of the stuff that gets issued, including Gore's movie. They are not associated with Gore.

Let's stop avoiding the issue, hoping that thousands of scientists are wrong, and start putting our efforts into solving this!

Enough electrons...

Jeff groSolar