While I have no Ph.D. in climatology or weather prediction, meteorology or the like, I have read widely, have attended conferences by and with scientists, and believe that the data presented to us by the anthropogenic folks — those who believe that any warming is man-caused — is marred by limited cherry-picking of data, and using tainted, skewed, or unreliable data by a segment of the believers.  Those scientists who do not go along with the prevailing leftists' version of heating and CO2 are intimidated and muted and have always been so since this topic became a volleyball back-and — forth, 20 years or so. The data are not dispositive on the side of man-made warming.  The cycles of warming and cooling have been millennial; we happen now to be in a warming phase. There was for example considerable warming in the Middle Ages, when there were no cars, factories, or other notable "bad guys" belching out emissions...(Read Full Post)