re: #99 Charles

Now we have two down-dingers in favor of lying.

re: #94 Walter L. Newton

I think you are a person that would compromise your principals to justify an end. If you really have to ask that question, then it makes you no better than any other dishonest politician, priest, pastor, businessman or the person next store who would screw their fellow man as long as they got their point made (or got their way).

I wouldn’t want you in the same lifeboat with me.

I don’t emphasize lying at all; to the contrary. I am most concerned with the ultimate truth of whether or not the Ice is melting.

Say for instance that Al Gore has been lying all along (believing there was no Global Warming and saying it was). The important question for society is still to determine if there is Global Warming after all, rather than to focus on Gore, Will or people like James Hansen.

I like to attack Hansen and Gore because I believe they are charlatans, and it is emotionally satisfying to bash them. But, in the end we need to step back from the people making claims and address the very claims independently of those people making them.