I really was just trying to educate and present some real news that is apart from the normal droll of this board.  But just so not to avoid the "questions" you guys like to pose, I would offer the following on my way back to the sports' boards   1) The Earth is warming  Global warming is not an output of computer models; it is a conclusion based on observations of a great many global indicators. By far the most straightforward evidence is the actual surface temperature record. While th