I get my info from longtime weather science professionals. Both have been slow to make any link between human activity and c*****e c****e. Or, in the case of one, that there is indeed ANY c*****e c****e.

I've known, on a professional level, Dr. David Robinson, meteorologist for Rutgers University, and Keith Arnesen, climatologist for Rutgers, since the early 1990s. Both held off opinions until the mid-2000s. Both now say the consensus is that human activity is contributing to the warming of oceans, which, in turn, effect weather. These are both tenured professors (Arnesen is now retired but still answers the phone at home) who have no financial stake in any particular agenda. They are both respected weather scientists.

I believe them rather than a few hacks who once worked for the tobacco industry trying to prove smoking as a safe and healthy activity or the "Star Wars" space shield as a doable project. Or the scientists who work for the Petroleum Institute or other organizations funded by the oil and coal industries. These hacks are the whores of science who will push a view of science even if its outside the field of their training.

Those directly involved with weather and ocean science are pretty much in agreement on what's happening. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law, both employed by NOAA collecting data from the Atlantic and Pacific. Both are stone cold right-wingers in the Libertarian mold (and both are ironically employed by the government) The increase in ocean temperatures worldwide is a fact, although both are not in the position to say why. But both note that the ocean CO2 levels are also increasing.

And then there's my cousin, a full-blow Obama hating right winger and first mate on an ocean going ship. She says the old salts can't believe how much the oceans have warmed.

The oceans are a CO2 sink and a heat sink. We have high levels of CO2, mostly from human activity, in the atmosphere. The oceans soak it up, causing changes in the chemistry of the oceans and causing increased temperatures of the oceans. This is fact.

Where does the CO2 come from? Well, that's the million dollar question.

Human activity dumps billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year. Think about how much a pound of CO2 gas weights and then imagine a ton.Then imagine a million tons, a daily output of human activity. Then imagine billions of tons dumped into the atmosphere annually.

to me, it's the height of arrogance to imagine that such pollution would not eventually have some effect on the planet. It is also the height of arrogance to abuse the planet in such a way.

In my mind, it's probably too late to do anything about c*****e c****e. We're just going to have to live with the effects and learn to adapt-. Humans are an extremely adaptable species so we should be able to make the change.

Big government programs like Cap and Trade will only push more US-based industries to China and India, who also seem to be in denial about c*****e c****e, . that or they just don't care.

But we as a species and as ethical people, we should be looking for ways to curb our extreme pollution of the planet. Pumping billions of tons of gases and particulent pollution into the air is environmental extremism of the worst kind. Every time I drive the Jersey Turnpike through northern New Jersey, I look at the miles and miles of land laid to waste by industrial pollution as environmental extremism.

We have fouled our own nest. We are well into the process of destroying the God-given perfect creation that is the earth. To not curb that fouling of the nest is simply wrong. To continue to abuse God's creation is immoral. To claim that ALL those who are warning about the possible effects of such abuse are only in it for the money is environmental extremism in the highest degree.

It is amusing that your linked article claiming that 97% of scientists believe in man made g****l w*****g was written in June 2010, and the below linked article was written only 7 months later, and states that 40% doubt anthropological caused c*****e c****e. I don't think that that many scientists changed their minds about c*****e c****e in only seven months.

It is more likely that a strongly biased c*****e c****e advocate wrote the piece you quote, in blind acceptance of the then popular lie told by Al Gore, since the internet is now saturated with stories of both increasing belief, and outright proof, that c*****e c****e is not being accelerated by any noticeable degree because of the activities of humans.

http://www.nas.org/articles/Estimated_40_Percent_of_Scientists_Doubt_Manmade_Global_Warming

What the black community needs is dignity and hope. There is great dignity in every black person. No one can touch the dignity that abides in every person. The only thing you can do is to convince the person that he does not have dignity. When a person does not believe that he has dignity, he will not act in a dignified manner. If he believes in his own dignity and honor, he may respond to the world with that, and no one can take it away from him. The world and a lot of people in it have a lot of influence, but the ultimate control of a person's character and actions reside in the person. Influence is just that. It is not control. When a person allows it to be such, that person gives away something which is core to his being. When one truly believes in his own dignity and acts accordingly, it is a tremendous source of hope. It may take a long time, but hope never fails. Hope keeps the belief alive. Remember the old saying: "T***h just is. Lies have to be invented."

Please pardon my intrusion, but Ms. Lane was the one who stated that women should not have been given the right to v**e. While the moral turpitude of a woman might affect the way she v**es, why would Ms. Lane (a woman at that) state that women shouldn't v**e. I don't, by the way, believe I have ever, as a LIBERAL, said that morals and values are not important. They are, indeed. However, it is not up to me to "police" others morals and values. That is between an individual and God -- not mere mortals. One of the values you spoke of -- would be to treat people with civility.