"If you want to stop global warming, then tape up Al Gore's mouth! And tape up my mouth And your mouth!! I am an angry four-year-old! Because Scientific American is a LIBRUL INSTYTOOSHUN, so it is biased against Jesus and wants you to abort your babies. So be Pro-Life! Drive an SUV and remember that anything that makes you feel good...is good."

"Also, the Earth is flat. And all my comments got deleted because SALON is a huge conspiracy! My last four comments had information about who shot JFK, but you'll never know because you are all poopy-heads for believing this horrible stuff you call 'science.' I'll have you know, scientists everywhere think the earth is too cold for people to live on currently. So everyone inhale a lot but don't exhale, or exhale but don't inhale, and stop farting (ha ha! farting! hahahaha! farting! it makes methane, which is a GREENHOWSE GAS!)(ha ha! I said "farting" a whole bunch of times!)."

"And furthermore your side only has 600 people on it, but mine has hundreds of millions of thousands of billions! So you lose. AGAIN."

"Now shut up Momocat shut up shut up shutupshutupshutup Ican'thearyou lalalalalalalala okay. whew. Stupid good points. Instead I will be racist about Obama instead. INSTEAD! OBAMA is stupid and I don't hate him because he's black! No. He will just make everyone broke and on welfare. Did you know that a lot of black people grow up on welfare? It's true. But you'll never read about that in Salon."

"YOU ARE ALL DENIERS! YOU DENY AND YOU DENY AND YOU DENY. That's what you are. You want global warming to be real so bad that you deny that we deny that I deny that you deny that it ever even happens."

"Your research is hand-picked by 600 of your friends on Facebook. Well, duh! Stupid Facebook and Myspace computer modeling. Of course your friends will say that global warming is happening right now. That's obvious as a fart in a crowded hot (but not globally-warmed) room! You and your friends are dumb. But my friends are smart. And now there are eleventeen gajillion of us, and not hundreds of millions of thousands of billions. There are one billion googol trillion. So there!"

"Earth has been around for 5000 years before we got here, and it will be around for three dozen more when we Jesus beams us up to heaven. So it doesn't even matter. We are like ants, except I don't like ants. We're like...moles. Only above ground. Or maybe kitties. We're like kitties, but we have thumbs and we can drive cars. That's it."

"Soft. Soft soft kitties. We like milk."

"Wait. Where was I? Oh yeah. If you're so smart and environmentally conscious, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON THE INTERWEBS?! Why do you waste your incredibly inefficient energies on your computer when you could be out pedalling a jumbo jet across the sky, you fascist? Go away and stop trying to refute things! I hate you I hate you I hate you aaaaaaaargh!"

The U.N. is the big driver behind global warming and stand to get billions in greenhouse gas taxes if every country agrees to abide by their regulations. While I don't buy into this whole global warming bit...

The U.N. doesn't levy taxes.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide has been increasing for over 100 years. The mean global temperature has increased by .73 degrees Farenheit from 1905 to 2005. The overwhelming majority of scientists maintain that the world is getting warmer. This has been verified by so many scientific studies that it's absolutely ridiculous that idiots still come along and debate the validity of the science, especially when the vast majority of those doubters have absolutely no experience with the science (or any science at all).

As is usual, doubters here in the commeents quote short-term figures as evidence that global warming is a myth, in spite of the fact that global warming trends tend to become evident over the long term. That means little. Greenhouse gas concentrations as a percentage of the Earth's atmosphere have been steadily increasing since humans began keeping measurements of that kind of thing.

The debate (for people who do not seek to bury their heads in the sand or spend all their time daydreaming up new conspiracies) has shifted from whether or not global warming is occuring to trying to quantify its effects and better understand how different parts of the Earth's surface may be affected.

The idiots who shriek about anyone who participates in global warming research as "alarmist" are far worse. For every terrible challenge humanity has ever faceed, there have always been vocal opponents who clamor for the world to ignore the issue, or who claim that it simply isn't an issue, or who seek to minimize the issue so that they and those they represent may find and exploit financial opportunities, which is why it's very ironic that the position you've adopted is the exact inverse: those who do this research will somehow benefit more than the industries most responsible for emitting carbon would by simply not taking steps.