name calling e g childish overuse of the word troll for anyone who urges caution or offers a slightly different pov is a form of bullying and has no place in this kind of debate it is laughable for someone whose first resort is to label a new voice a troll and then talk about promoting ignorant povs we live in a fascinating time we are extrapolating given current facts into future trends that may have grave consequences for us all global warming though has come to mean more than specifically just the undoubted heating up of the globe in the last few years what is debatable however is the future will it continue this is where fact meets theory supoose next year the earth starts to cool again for several decades then warms again then cools again what are we to make of it we are trying to make sense of this as we go along but we cannot call a future event a fact just yet that we have got warmer is a fact that we will continue to get warmer is a theory