Your right Rodney....we should. But in our zeal to prove we are right we should be careful not to automatically label opposing viewpoints as wrong.



I'm sitting on the fence on this one. I want to see hard data. Why are some Ice fields growing and others shrinking? I want to see an answer (that makes sense) and that can be backed up with fact.





I consider myself to be sitting on the fence also. It's not so much that I believe global warming can't be (or isn't) happening as it is that I see no reason to believe it is happening without some good evidence. It is all the ridiculous arguments that some say are evidence of global warming that I have a problem with. If those arguments can be disproved, or simply make no sense, I will point it out. It's easy for all these arguments to sway the general publics opinion. If they hear argument after argument that try to support global warming, they will eventually begin to believe in global warming whether it is true or not. While I don't know if global warming is happening for sure or not, I do know a bad, irrational argument when I see one. Until I do see some good hard evidence to prove that global warming exists, I will take the cautious, skeptical position that it doesn't, until it is proven. I don't believe in many other things for the same reason. (ghosts, psychics, numerology, horoscopes, etc.) It has always amazed me how some people, who seem completely rational, will make decisions or put more faith in their feelings and beliefs than in what they actually know to be fact. It is also amazing how many predators (like cult leaders, psychics, psychic healers, faith healers, etc.) can prey on these people because of their beliefs over riding their knowledge.



Rodney

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