out. Show us your facts. James P Good article, JD. I was pleased to read the reference to stomach ulcers, which I have often used myself to balance conventional wisdom. Interesting, too, that Barry Marshall, the doctor who demonstrated the action of the h.pylori bacterium was also Australian. It took 30 years for the medical establishment* to accept the proof, however, so I guess we shouldn't hold our breath over AGW! *Veterinary medicine knew about this 60 years ago, but of course, doctors never talk to vets... Pops One of the dirty little secrets in climate science is that the ground-based temperature record, used to assert that recent years have been much warmer than the past, is "adjusted" before making such determinations. Furthermore, if one subtracts the unadjusted numbers from the adjusted numbers, the result -- which represents the adjustment itself -- is a hockey stick! In other words, the adjustments to the numbers produce the warming, not the actual measured temperature. Alex "so who do you believe, the Royal Society, the oldest scientific society in the world, or the motley collection of Lomborg, Plimer and a man who would name his daughter 'Nigella'" Sounds a lot like something one would expect to find in the Inquisition's indictment of Galileo. The only thing one can say is -- eppur si muove Winston I suppose toxic waste is not a problem either. Dumping it into oceans? Cutting down trees to cook food? Making more oxygen consuming engines? Making more useless for