I'm not denying anything. I accept the data which says global warming is occurring. I accept the IPCC report which says humans "likely" have a small, but statis

I'm not denying anything. I accept the data which says global warming is occurring. I accept the IPCC report which says humans "likely" have a small, but statistically significant, effect on global warming. My point is that, on the geologic time scale, 100 years of temperature records are meaningless, and these media stories are really designed to cause fear. The fact is we are well within natural long term temperature variations. One poster says it's the rate of temperature growth that is important. Agreed, however, that is not in the article. What really disturbs me is your use of the pejorative "denier". Is a denier anyone who is skeptical of your dogma? Galileo was a heretical "denier" for his theory that the sun was the center of the solar system. Denying a theory is a necessary step in the scientific method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method