re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And a lot of complex science is somewhat counter-intuitive.

I have seen the argument that the ice sheets around Antarctica are spreading.

Yes, because of warming, the continental glaciers are melting into the sea, lowering the salinity of the seawater around the ice shelves and raising its freezing temperature.

We have an agricultural newspaper here that is delivered to everyone twice a week.

I was reading it and there was a letter from a sixteen year-old girl arguing that even if CO2 was rising in the atmosphere, that would be a good thing, because plants like CO2.

I don’t normally publicly go after teenagers (I’d done it one time before several years ago on a girl who wrote our local paper bashing atheists), but I went after her, sticking only to facts (no personal attacks).

Unsurprisingly, the agricultural paper declined to publish my letter, though they did give a reason: I’m not a farmer, so they would not publish my letter. (Gaaa. Whether I was right or not didn’t matter, only that I wasn’t a farmer.)