DN watches Al Gore's movie and makes major life changes....

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Science is wrong many times. Science is not always the truth. Science can not agree on this issue. Even if they did it wouldn't mean much. The Earth goes through cycles that are far larger than 100 years. Do a search on earth timeline. For huge amounts of time you need to break it down in millions of year piece. 100 years no pattern can be determined that has any value.

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I'm a graduate student and am in close contact with many scientists who work in atmospheric chemistry. One of my professors last quarter is an author in a section of the IPCC report that just came out (also in 2001).

The atmospheric scientists are looking at the concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases over hundreds of thousands of years, not 100. Global warming is not just some hypothesis a couple of scientists thought of... it is FUNDAMENTAL science. The debate among an OVERWHELMING majority of scientists who have spent their entire careers dealing with these concepts is that global warming IS happening. Now, the only debate is over the speed of temperature rise.

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No, that is NOT the only debate. There is debate over what the cause is. Seeing an effect, and choosing a convenient cause that you like without any proof, is junk science.

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Among the scientific community, global warming due to increased emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O) IS the leading cause. That is why there have been calls to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Changes due to solar radiation, etc... have been discounted due to the time scales involved.

There is debate if OTHER gases, such as CFCs, are going to speed up the rate of global warming due to their larger global warming potentials.

Please provide a source of a paper from a peer-reviewed journal (the only reputable kind) that says otherwise.