GrahamMac, sounds like you have really been AlGored by this crazy runaway bullduster.
Of course, underlying this global warming debate is an unacknowledged fear ... a subconscious, irrational fear of THE END OF THE WORLD.
AND of course, there is reasonable evidence that global warming is anthropogenic because we can only really find it in the human mind where it is usually created from careless data acquisition and dodgy data processing. ( i.e. When you have a virtual monopoly of research funding who needs integrity?)
In the real world, it just seems that speculation of the next solar crash is about all we are capable of because there is profound ignorance and even a total eclipse of reason when it comes to understanding how the sun really ticks and what forms of energy become inputs to earth's climate. We know sunspots flare up and settle down in cycles of roughly eleven years and that for most of the twentieth century we've seen abnormally high activity. The present cycle 23 nearing its end has been a turning point and if it extends longer than eleven years then the next cycle is expected to be even quieter. Diminishing solar activity is a distinct possibility because the sun's polar field is now at its weakest since measurements began in the early 1950s.
