#1) it's good to see alternative viewpoints on global warming, Michael is excellent for sharpening yourself on it #2) reading michael is an exercise in the limi

#1) it's good to see alternative viewpoints on global warming, Michael is excellent for sharpening yourself on it #2) reading michael is an exercise in the limits of the slippery slope: he will show the Amazon isn't the "lungs of the earth", in that he will show why eliminating it doesn't mean we'll run out of oxygen, but he won't show that it is meaningless #3) after swimming around his arguments for a few months, your focus may (or may not!) turn to "well, even if we can say each part is overwrought, the whole effect and trend line is a major problem - swallowing a 5 degree celsius increase in temperature is, rather intuitively, a problem, particularly when we still have the _3rd_ derivative increasing"