If you really want some facts about global warming, try this one by a NASA scientist, which warns of a much faster rate of ice cap melting, possibly resulting in a 80 meter sea level rise, enough to drown most of the Eastern seaboard: http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2007/2007_Hansen_etal_2.pdf

DennisD: surely you are joking. There are not “equal numbers” of scientists “for and against” global warming. Typical right wing lie. There are only a miniscule fraction of “scientists” (estimated at less than 2%) arguing against global warming (more properly called “climate change"), most of them funded by Big Oil. As for those who say that extreme cold belies the reality of climate change, they are missing the point. The greenhouse effect will cause extremes of temperature at both ends of the equation, but the long term effect will be to increase the global temperatures, causing massive changes in the weather patterns, which we are now experiencing.
If you like this hot weather now, just do nothing and wait—it is only going to get worse.

The weather patterns may indeed be changing just as they have throughout recorded history. Scientists have discovered that Greenland was actually once “green” beneath it’s permafrost. You’ll find an equal number of scientists for and against the global warming argument.
If anyone thinks that countries are going to shutdown or drastically curtail the industries that provide their people jobs which gives them their tax base, you’re crazy as a sh*t house rats. That goes for whoever is in the Out House at any given time. Lets all go back to Medieval times to satisfy the eco-freaks - most of whom wouldn’t last a week under any conditions but what they enjoy now, so get off this crap. The world has enough real problems to deal with, without chasing straw man arguments. Does world hunger, AIDS, poverty, war etc. etc. ring any bells.
This is starting to sound like Bill O’Unreality’s fight to save Christmas.
I guarantee you won’t hear if Stanley, Idaho has a colder winter than normal because that won’t conveniently fit the argument.

We have been warned.If we allow ourselves to be swayed by large commercial interests over sound science than whose fault is it.I still remember the American Tobacco Institute claiming that the health reports on cigarette smoking being bad for your health were inconclusive.I know it would be a lot to ask for the American public to learn from previous mistakes in judgment but I am hopeful.I was more hopeful before my generation that lived through Vietnam allowed a moron to take us into another war mess.Side note/before you listen to one word from the Competitive Enterprise Institute think tank go to their website and check out the donor list.

The fact remains that though many naysayers may acknowledge the fact of warming, few will accept human contribution. This is a global catastrophe, but big business will never accept responsiblity for it’s contributions.

to all the talk show and tv pundits that had a field day when Al Gores meeting on global warming got canceled because of a snow storm What comment do you have now ??????/