Happy to hear your parents are fat cats ... my parents and theirs worked
hard, too, but aren't fat cats ... hmmm ... wonder what happened.  Heh,
maybe everyone's goal isn't to become a fat cat.  My father and his were
both university professors in fields not conducive to fat-catting, yet still
chose to work long, hard hours.  Hope it didn't make them lesser Americans
...

Here's the pentagon paper:
http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climate_change.html#report
it's probably more interesting in its geopolitical rantings than in the
science, borrowed from elsewhere, but it's noteworthy that it would come
from the same government that walked on the Kyoto Accords.

Perhaps I should flip this and ask you to prove:
1) that the ice-age process has not happened before
2) there is no possibility that it could happen (again)  (depending upon the
outcome of 1).
Given the rather compelling evidence (though not black and white), it would
seem more difficult to disprove.

The problem with sciences that deal with unknowns is that it is unlikely
that there is any way of predicting absolutely any scenario; take weather
for example.  When I was a kid, the weatherman was a joke and knew less
about the weather than I did (having just come in from the rain).  Today,
the prediction is pretty darn good and there is usually an explanation when
it's wrong, yet it is doubtful that there will ever be total exactitude.  I
don't need that kind of precision to know that I want to leave when a Cat 5
hurricane is approaching my home.

Similarly, ice cap melting is measurable, the ocean currents and
temperatures are as well, and ice cores are compelling in their story.
Whether the changes are manmade or not will never be proven to all, nor is
it necessary.  Likely, we will find out soon enough.  Personally, I'm glad
some people have chosen careers where they seek explanations and
understanding, though won't become rich in the process.

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I am happy to hear that you admit that you can't prove it.  Also, most
Americans that I know that are well off came here from somewhere else, or
their parent's did as in my case, and broke their butt working very hard,
studying hard and going without to become successful so that they can be
envied and called fat cats and criticized by others who did not sacrificed
and struggle to make it.

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