Oh, just so you know, the whole "global cooling scare," although widely circulated by the press, never had the support of the scientific community like the theory of global warming does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cool...

The claim that scientists used to believe in global cooling but now believe in global warming is a popular myth among conservatives, but unfortunately it's not true. While the press and the media have gone back and forth on the issue over the decades, actual scientists have not, and it's common for many people in the general public to fail to distinguish between the actual findings of scientific studies and the skewed reports that journalists write about those studies. Sometimes journalists will even take a scientific study and then write a report claiming that the study found the exact opposite of what the study actually claimed to have found.

I remember an incident recently where a scientific study was conducted on internet usage, and the study found that excessive online multi-tasking impairs concentration and reduces productivity because people are trying to do too much at once, and don't focus on one task at a time. But then Google happened to get ahold of the study, and they published a report on it claiming that the study showed using the internet more made people smarter because they're using more of their brain at once, which was the exact opposite of what the study actually said. The truth of what the study showed was that when you're zeroed in and focused on one specific task, you're using only the portion of your brain which is necessary for that task, which means all of your mental resources can be exclusively dedicated to it, thus enhancing your effectiveness at that task. Multi-tasking, on the other hand, tends to split your mental resources apart and distribute them over a wider area of your brain, meaning you're using more of your brain at once, but you're using it less effectively and less efficiently. But Google took the part about using more of your brain at once, and ran a report saying that using the internet more makes you smarter because you're using more of your brain. Google had a conflict of interest in the matter (they make more money when people use the internet more), which caused them to misinterpret and misrepresent the data in a way that favored their agenda.

This is the same thing that happened with the so-called "global cooling scare." Scientists never endorsed global cooling, but certain media outlets had an agenda to push, and so they skewed the data and made false claims about how scientists supposedly were saying the earth was cooling, even though scientists were actually saying no such thing. So it's important to remember to distinguish between what scientists actually say and what journalists claim scientists are saying, because it's an unfortunate fact of our culture that journalists on both the right and the left often cannot be trusted to provide truthful and accurate information about scientific findings.

AGW?