That's cool. Politically correct bigotry. :thumb:

Red, I haven't read every post that you have made on this subject, and quite frankly...don't have time to. But, concerning the "millenia" of global warming", how did you come to this? What proof can you offer to show "millenia" of global warming? Not arguing with you...just wondering where you got that.

Here is a snippet of a NASA article...interesting stuff.

"[SIZE=+2]E[/SIZE]very year, of course, we add another 12 months to the temperature trend," said Christy. "But 1998 was particularly interesting. While two previous strong El-Niños occurred in the past 20 years, this is the first one that occurs without a simultaneous volcanic eruption." El-Niño warming events and the eruptions of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 and El Chichon in 1983 have been the most influential events on the temperature trend to date.
"Obviously, El Niños are part of the natural weather cycle, and shouldn't be discounted," said Christy. "When we look at long-term trends, however, we shouldn't assign excess importance to individual unusual or extreme short-term events, such as this El Niño or the cooling that followed the eruption of the Pinatubo volcano in 1991."
The lower tropospheric data are often cited as evidence against global warming, because they have as yet failed to show any significant warming trend when averaged over the entire Earth. The lower stratospheric data show a significant cooling trend, which is consistent with ozone depletion. In addition to the recent cooling, large temporary warming perturbations may be seen in the data due to two major volcanic eruptions: El Chichon in March 1982, and Mt. Pinatubo in June 1991.

It's all pretty confusing to me...but I believe it is part of a cycle that the earth is going thru...and it hasn't been happening for millions of years. In the 70's, some of these same "scientists" were warning of another ICE AGE...and it was alleged to be imminent. For that reason, however many links you provide that come from so called experts...a lot of us just aren't gonna jump on board. We've seen the opposite expectations from the same group of people...IN OUR LIFETIMES. That's why you hear a bunch of folks refer to them as "chicken littles", alarmist, so on. I have seen reports that allege the exact opposite that your linked reports allege...and, fact is, there are likely TWO groups of wackos out there. One sees it your way, and one sees it the exact opposite way. But BOTH are likely wrong.

Heard this on the radio today, one of you link searchers can maybe dig it up. The cooling effect of the last 12 months has (according to the 4 different agencies that measure this stuff) claim that it was so profound that it cancels out the effects of 100 years of warming. Hmm

I asked you to explain only ONE THING. You act as if I asked you to give every shred of scientific evidence on the subject...just for me. And besides, based on the length of your reply, that's exactly what you wanted to do anyway. If you don't wanna answer the question, don't. You, amigo...are more than a little arrogant.

In case you missed it, the question was this-----Where did you come up with evidence that global warming has been going on for thousands of years? Either that, or define "millenia" for me.

The politics of it...which you say is the only thing that interests me...is actually the very thing that turns me off to the subject.

Actually, no it doesn't. If by the accounts of the very same people that are trying to scare us into riding bicycles to work and switching to a middle eastern style of bathroom hygene (because toilet paper is just SO wrong). If the earth has warmed a whopping % of a degree in 100 years, and then cools close to the same or even more of a % of that same degree in ONE year. I'd say it's not too hard to believe. How have you proclaimed or proven the daily tech article to be "hogwash", is it because it says opposite of what you hold dear? If you look hard enough I'm sure you can find an article that will tell you the moon is made of cheese. Maybe we should send the next space shuttle with a pack of crackers just in case? The planet is going to do what it's going to do and there isn't much we can do to change it.