The point of my comments are that to even to begin to understand what anyone has to say about controversial topics is that you have to consider the contexts in which they are said.

In this case the context was the publishing company, Encounter Books, and the world-view that they promote altogether. Which in the case of Encounter Books and those on the right side of the culture wars was and is summed up in the two stark images from the mural in the Dartmouth Library, and the recent applied politics of cruelty as described in the Logos Journal essay. To my way of thinking the Dartmouth images and the Logos essay both criticize the same toxic world-view.

Unlike most people who make comments on Online Opinion I freely acknowledge what the sources of my point of view re any and every given topic.

Meaning that any and every thing that all people say about any and every thing is conditioned by what they have read - without exception. Anyone who claims otherwise is just exercising a conceit. A conceit that is very common.

hiho hum, so are you saying there are no "legitimate" opinions that are not originally sourced from other material? That they should now be peer reviewed to our satisfaction, to be able to be posted at all .. sounds like we're heading back into AGW censorship. This is not a scientific site, it's an opinion site.

"Unlike most people who make comments on Online Opinion I freely acknowledge what the sources of my point of view re any and every given topic"

So attitudes I've spent a lifetime developing, have to now be sourced to your satisfaction? (if I'm to earn your grace?)

Why on earth would you insist on that, unless it's to stifle debate and accuse anyone skeptical of lacking authority or credibility.

I honestly wonder what you do or have done in your life to take such an attitude to other people.

.7 degree rise in temp; in the last decade. Another .7 rise in the next decade even if we do something to curb pollution now.
If we do nothing 4 or 5 degrees within 25-30 years.
Summer temps have been up to 45+ now. won't be able to stand another 4 or 5 degrees on top of that.
The landscape will change dramatically, the very survival of man kind hangs on what we do now.
Struggling nations will be worst hit, probably millions of deaths.
Much of AU will be uninhabitable.
The long term future is uncertain for the young of today,if we do nothing. It is up to the individual to make a difference. Don't blame it on govt;

579?

Pure unadulterated 'alarmism' does nothing for reasoned and rational discourse, let alone the action that is required.

May I humbly suggest you read (and understand) the IPCC's AR4, not some 'Dooms Day' book.

As Leo kindly puts it...............

"It is clear that the warming is part and parcel of the natural cycles, and there is no room for such an assertion, unless it is based on some scientific proof."

Thank you Leo for bring up the next case scenario.

Now what Leo has said there is very interesting indeed.

Natural cycles is in fact "combined" with everything else. And so is this.

I haven't heard much on mini or major extinctions. It could be fair to say this is exactly what the planet is at the beginning of, and if not...........WHY.

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The world has never had a natural cycle like this one before.
There has been a shift going on since the 70's thats when i noticed changes taking place. People can stick their head in the sand and deny everything, thats easy. But what if they are wrong.
Every scientist has their own view, you can not go against temp; rise.
Who nows what's causing it. Pollution is a fair bet. It is a common denominator around the world.
So be a good little boy and get your solar system installed, and solar hot water. Rain water tanks, Do away with the garden, and make a nice display in its place with stones, so we can save water