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1. - You are absolutely correct that solar radiation controls the Earth's climate. However, to correct your first point, more heat from the sun causes increased evaporation over the oceans (they cover most of the planet, after all,) which leads to MORE clouds. Clouds are both heat storing (as water vapor absorbs infrared radiation) and reflective (they're white), but they're more the latter than the former... (You've stood under a cloud on a hot day... it's cooler!) So, it has been argued that increased heat from the sun will trigger a feedback mechanism and generally cause more cooling due to increased evaporation.

2. - Again, you're right. Man didn't create global warming. There was, indeed, a warm globe long before there was man. However, we've tripled the amount of a heat-storing molecule in the planet's atmosphere in a single century. Simple physics follows that this must have some kind of effect. (It has every time a volcano has done so in the past...) -The only question is: what kind of effect will it be?

3. -The caps aren't expanding... if anything (there is controversy), polar sea ice has recently expanded, which is different.

4. - Good question. However, during the "age of the dinosaurs" the Earth was not a desert.

Take a look for yourself if you're really interested. Don't trust what any media outlet tells you, conservative or liberal. Go to the source. A good place to start would be: http://www.agu.org/pubs/#journals

Cheers.

So, where are you from? Alabama? Kentucky? It seems obvious that you are desperate for attention. Not only did you come onto an environmental site just to post some republican rhetoric in order to get people worked up, but you openly come on here and declare yourself a conservative. Labelling yourself with these broad generalizations does nothing but label yourself as closed minded. You really ought to spend less time posting misinformation and more time finding out what YOU think.

My suggestion is to watch the movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. This movie will clearly show you that not only is global warming directly influenced by human actions, but that the ice caps are indeed shrinking and the oceans are already rising. Sure, in the past, the world has faced global warming, as well as global cooling, but the time-spans for those changes to occur happened over millions to billions of years. Today, the changes are being seen right in front of our eyes and are happening a millions times faster than in the past.

of the half truths, mangled science and unfounded assumptions on the websites that you reference. Scientists, both conservative and liberal in their political persuasion, have never been more united around the basic conclusions, based on historical and natural records going back 650,000 years, that CO2 and other greenhouse gases including water vapor) are increasing in the atmosphere, trapping more of the sun's heat (sunspots or no) and warming the globe to a degree we've not seen for a really long while. And that it is largely caused this time by human activity. Yes, it was hotter and wetter when the dinosaurs roamed- and if those conditions were present again today, most of our coastal cities and much human population would be under water.

It seems that your ideology is driving your science- and that's dangerous. Just ask the Jews of Europe from 1933-1945. Oh that's right, you can't; they're not here any more, due to a monstrous hybrid of political policy, pseudoscience and ideology. Many more millions than that, however, will suffer and perish in the next century if we do nothing to avert our collision course with GHG increases and climatic change.

You think it's a fraud? To what purpose? Who profits? A vast global conspiracy of over 100 countries, thousands of scientists and most of the world's media? There's no logic and little data behind your statements. Even bona fide conservatives like John McCain, John Warner and Rupert Murdoch admit that climate change is real and the scientific consensus behind it is sound. BTW, the earth is not flat either, despite what your eyes tell you when you look at the horizon. Have you considered that you might just be dead wrong? It's happened to me on occasion.

What I don’t comprehend is the reasoning your followed that made it seem like a logical idea to come to brand new website, focused entirely on proactive environmental ideas, and spout off your conservative opinions on global warming. There are communities where opinions like yours are revered, but this isn’t one of them. I am not only concerned about your lack of respect for the environment, but also your total lack of respect for your fellow man – all because they don’t share your ideology.

While there is a natural component of global warming, which no one really disputes, the evidence is overwhelming that human practices have drastically accelerated this phenomenon. It concerns me that people like you are still out there, posting on environmental sites, claiming that global warming is a hoax because you somehow feel that you can justify burning obviously dirty fuels (they emit black smoke that's been proven to cause health issues, or do you dispute that too?) because you are too cheap or too lazy to find an alternative and too short sighted to care about the planet of your children.