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#:*the observation that average global surface air temperature has gone up (since around 1850)
#:*the observation that average global surface air temperature has gone up (since around 1850)
#:*the theory that this is largely caused by human activity
#:*the theory that this is largely caused by human activity
#No one on this page disagrees with the first "concept". We've seen the data and the graphs. Temperatures are up a full degree (Fahrenheit), maybe a degree and a half (0.8 C). When you say "disagree with ... global warming" you are confusing the temperature increase with the cause.
#:No one on this page disagrees with the first "concept". We've seen the data and the graphs. Temperatures are up a full degree (Fahrenheit), maybe a degree and a half (0.8 C). When you say "disagree with ... global warming" you are confusing the temperature increase with the cause.
#... The issue needn't be a political one as has been framed here.
#... The issue needn't be a political one as has been framed here.
#:We are not "framing" global warming as political. We distinguish clearly between the scientific issue and the politics. Scientists know that temperature has gone up and down many times before. The cycle is around 1,500 years long and is apparently related to [[solar activity]]. (Not so much the intensity of [[sunlight]] but the effect of the [[solar wind]] on [[cosmic rays]] reaching the earth (see [[cloud formation]]). Politicians and pressure groups have been making misleading statements about the science, and that is what we are countering here. This requires a rebuttal of the false scientific statements.
#:We are not "framing" global warming as political. We distinguish clearly between the scientific issue and the politics. Scientists know that temperature has gone up and down many times before. The cycle is around 1,500 years long and is apparently related to [[solar activity]]. (Not so much the intensity of [[sunlight]] but the effect of the [[solar wind]] on [[cosmic rays]] reaching the earth (see [[cloud formation]]). Politicians and pressure groups have been making misleading statements about the science, and that is what we are countering here. This requires a rebuttal of the false scientific statements.