As long as the 'business as usual' people control the media, all the global warming scientists don't matter. It takes waiting till it's too late, till the hurricane surge comes over the levee, the orchards and vinyards run out of irrigation water, the forests burn down and take exurbia with it, and the Arctic ice pack disappears completely, before it is no longer possible to deny global warming.
Which is about where we are right now.
OK, so we denied tenure to people that talked about global warming years ago, when it wasn't too late. So we defunded people by denying them grants to gather the data that tracked global warming years ago, when it wasn't too late. It doesn't matter any more.
The question that matters now is, what can we do. Note, I am not asking what should we do, I am asking what can we do.
If we shut down oil production six years in advance of running out anyway, all that does is piss off the gasoline buyers, the commuters, and make them blame the Liberal environmentalists.
The Conservative denialists get off scott free and walk away with the money, laughing.
And what does it get us?
Better to just let us hit the wall six years harder. What difference does it make? We are in an irreversible climate shift. Six less years of burning oil and we are not going to save Greenland. Those six years are going to increase greenhouse warming by what, six percent? It's a compound interest thing. The last six months of running up your credit cards are not nearly as ruinous as the first six years.
We are not just concerned about the present amount of CO2 in the air, we are concerned about the melted snow that is no longer reflecting sunlight, the treeline moving north across the taiga and higher along the mountain sides, absorbing sunlight as the snow lies below the branches, the CH4 desorbing from the muskeg as the permafrost melts, and bubbling up from the wave stirred hydrates of the Arctic as the wave damping ice pack melts in the summer sun of the Arctic ocean.
Greenhouse gases from oil and coal are no longer the most important part of the global warming problem. The compound interest on the old greenhouse gases are what is more important.
You know, we went through this before in California. The ecofreaks got the government to buy up the last of the old growth forest. We saved about five years worth of lumber industry, and spent the next forty years with the rural areas bitching about us denying them good jobs at good wages, and subsidizing them by supplementing their taxes to compensate them for losing the employment. We got to compensate them eight times for every lost dollar of wages.
Why go through that again?
Hit the wall six years early and destroy the Conservatives as a political philosophy. Works for me.

Chris, to make the 23" in 100 years the rate must go up THREE TIMES! (for Gore ridiculous 20 feet it would have to rise 10x more than that. Gee, that is a MAGNATUDE more!)

But that rate change is not happening. In the World Climate Report summaries of REFEREED PAPERS is it quite clear that to establish the actual rate of increase is very hard. It goes through cycles of faster rates and slower rates, that at 7" per year has been going on for more than 100 years, long before we came along with FF buring.

If you read the summary in WCR you will note that the rate DROPPED between 1940 and 1993. And the quote you note is very clear that the current increase CANNOT WITH CERTAINTY be because of GW, it might, and most likley is, due to these small fluctations. Besides, this rate change is VERY small, just a few percent change.

Bottom line is the scare mongering of FEET or METERS increase in the next 50 years is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.

So if all this melting is going and, and reviews in WCR dispute there is wide scale increases, where is all the water going? This is a serious, and theory breaking, problem. Theories stay or fall on their predictions. If the predictions of feet increases in sea level in the next 100 years does not pan out, the theory is in serious trouble. If there is no change in the rate over the next ten years, the theory is in trouble.

Please, don't just take the IPCC and the Gorites hook line and sinker, read papers that do not support the AGW dogma, there's lots of it. Hence I remain SKEPTICAL (not a denier) that we are contributing 100% to GW and hence can change the current trend.

And BTW, there is an astrophysis, who just died recently, who noted that the changes in the planets around the sun causes the solar system center of gravity to wobble, and with it the sun wobbles causing more or less activity, which affects our climate.

Richard Wakefield
London, Ont.

No one is ahead of their time, just the rest of humanity is slow to catch on.