So now it's Chinese missles shooting down satellites.
Actually, good timing on this. One of the more , shall we say "left sided" news stations were asked this question on their Saturday morning ask the meterologists questions session. He was asked about global warming. He pretty much states my position on the question, and find it hard to believe that he is allowed those views on that TV station. Anyhow he basically says there are two seperate issues that people confuse and even his fellow weather people tend to ignore facts when they forcast the long term affects. He said the two sides are whether there is a general warming tread? and is it man made? First, he said no way is it man made however he stated, and this is where from the little research I have done, that we still need to reduce pollutates. Not because of GW but because it is good for the environment and our future familys to not poison their water and air supply.
He did however state that these has been a general warming tread for the last 230 years or so, with a slightly larger increase in the last 10 years or so. He says that if you apply those numbers to any forcasting model of course it will show you double digit increases in global temps 50 years from now. But with any weather forcast it is only as good as the numbers fed and when only looking at the one tread line of course it goes up because that all the scientists feed it so they look "smart". But reality is if you feed it general treads over a much longer term, and they can only guess because temps were not really kept before the late 1800's, we are probably more likely to hit a general and substantial cooler tread over the next 50 years. He sadi some have an agenda and try to tie Global warming with industry to try to force clean up, but most realize that the environment and GW are two seperate and divergent issues that have little bearing on each other.