re: #272 Walter L. Newton

I don’t always have the energy to hang in those threads, but the emotions are high enough on this subject that we need to strive for absolute clarity. My response to Charles would be that I am fully converted to the Church of AGW. It is no hoax.

Full conversion, however, does not require mindless adherence to nebulous social and ecological predictions that are wholly unrelated to the hard evidence supporting the phenomenon of AGW.

To make an analogy, i am a Christian. Being a Christian does not require mindless adherence to nebulous prophecies about some crazy armageddon/end times scenario that is wholly unrelated to the simple message of love and peace that is the foundation of my belief.

That’s the point that needs to be driven home, unemotionally and with exceeding clarity.