  Dr. Velasco Herrara  (Source: Reuters) A "little ice age" in
our future?          Comments     Threshold   RE: Another
contrarian - so what? By clovell on 8/20/2008 5:47:36 PM ,
Rating: 2 > I've no inclination to plot anything myself - I'm
not a climate scientist and don't believe that by cherry-picking
a couple of data points, slapping it in to a spreadsheet that I
will then have a greater understanding of a highly complex
multi-faceted scientific discipline than scientists who have
spent decades studying it. To do so would demonstrate massive
arrogance and Dunning Kruger effect. Instead I will accept the
scientific position of every national science academy of every
major industrialised country on the planet, all of whom confirm
recent climate change is due to human activity.  That's
ridiculous. Anyone with a fifth grade education can plot raw
values over time and tell if they trend up or down. Arrogance is
not involved, but a modicum of intelligence and objectivity is
requisite.  Is it ruly too much to a