Re: global warming: spin or not spin?

[Nick Palmer]

<<Does anybody wish to comment on this sentence? "The primary greenhouse gas is water vapor, not carbon dioxide.7 ">>     Of course it is - so what? The ordinary "life" of water vapour in the atmosphere is ephemeral, CO2 is not. In any case, one of the effects of warming, due to CO2 and methane etc in some latitudes, may be an increase in water vapour (humidity) levels which would cause a positive feedback.      This organisation (National Center for Public Policy Research) uses false logic piled upon false logic and simple rhetoric to blind the naive to the truth. A small example - they quote from four organisations that have "come out" in favour of action to prevent climate change. They say that these organisations are not the objective purveyors of scientific reason that they purport to be because they exist to promote liberal views and to counter "conservative" views. Their logic is false - just because the organisations they are criticising have political aims does not mean that what these others say is incorrect.  The NCPPR's rhetoric is clearly trying to steer people into believing that any organisation that promotes the climate change hypothesis is, ipso  facto, a "red under the bed",  and that there is no scientific consensus that climate change is real, is threatening us and action to mitigate the worst effects must be taken now.      I wish I could slap irresponsible people like this around the face - very, very hard.     Nick Palmer