I’m advancing this note in connection with our Conservative Enthusiast Group, which meets monthly to discuss issues such as this.  We’d like your participation in our presentations as a speaker and/or a listener / questioner. If you have some thoughts on issues that you feel need further exposure or discussion, please contact Mark S at  msussm@msn.com  to coordinate a meeting date and time allocation for your briefing.

This blog is largely in Powerpoint format.  The purpose of this specific presentation is to voice deep skepticism of the growing political hype and zealotry over the Man-Made Global Warming (MMGW) issue. Al Gore likes to say the threat is proven and now "settled" by scientific consensus.  But this is simply untrue.

My critique here points out some of the many good scientists who remain deeply skeptical of, if not substantively antagonistic to, the allegation of significant MMGW. This perspective is based on significant data and physical reasoning, which suggests MMGW is an erroneous result of inadequate science being badly applied and then blindly hyped by various groups.

Alarmingly, the MMGW issue has stimulated a broad swath of emotion and legislation affecting much of the Nation’s political agenda. This combination of bad science and fear-mongering can lead to deflection of large national resources away from needy issues into the dead-end track of multiple “solutions” in search of a real problem. Furthermore, an important collateral damage is the gross deformation of American science and the scientific method into just another series of political sound bites.   At this stage of our Nation’s history, this is a misstep we would do well to avoid. 

The link below will  take you to the Powerpoint charts. To view, click on the icon below the chart, "full” (i.e.,  screen);  then use the new bottom arrows to navigate from chart to chart.  Here's the link; please discuss the issue with your friends.  Pass along your thoughts to your Congressional Representatives and other community leaders.

http://www.slideshare.net/MarkS181/manmade-co2-impact-one-skeptics-view-feb-15-08