The other problem with Global Warming is the actual term “Global Warming”. While in some parts of the world it is indeed hotter it is actually cooler in other parts of the world. Hasn’t the Northern United States been experiencing colder than usual weather? If it’s Global Warming, I expect the changes to be Global, not isolated to certain areas. If it’s a global climate shift, well that doesn’t sound to me like something to worry about, as these things happen. At one time Egypt was a jungle. Go figure? It seems to me this is more like people trying to not cope with the fact that there are many things in this world we have little to no control over. The Sun being one of them.

Perhaps deep ocean water takes decades to reach a new warmer equilibrium. Or perhaps the melting of all arctic ice in summer will lower albedo enough to cause significantly more warming. (Arctic ice trends for the past 3 decades are somewhat alarming, although the limited older data may indicate comparable open water around 1930.)

That said, I agree that the key argument of sensitivity is the simplest and clearest way to understand the issue. Further, it has seemed to me that if Mann et al were right with the “hockey stick”, and temperatures had been very stable for 1300 years, that would be significant evidence against the strongly positive feedbacks which the alarmists’ faith relies upon even as they also hold on faith the hockey stick itself.

I find that your new blog cannot be read without using the view ‘Largest’ text size in IE6 or using at least 140% magnification in Opera. The black background just overwhelms smaller text.

Regards, Don