I am beginning to see stories from a web site called LiveScience.com. Buy are these guys out there. They publish anything, I mean anything, which might inflame the public about global warming. Most of it appears to be garbage as their claims are in direct contravention of what the science community agrees upon. This site represents the lunatic fringe. To give you some flavor, the latest headline reads "Global Warming Might Create Lopsided Planet." Here's an excerpt from the article:

"A new study illustrates the difficulty in predicting how the planet might react to overall warming, which most but not all scientists believe is underway, in part due to greenhouse gas emissions by industry and autos."

I suppose that not all (but certainly most!) scientists agree the planet is warming. But if you accept that the planet is warming, the causes are undeniably anthropogenic greenhouse gases? That is what the sentence says. Science is not an egalitarian pursuit - we do not poll scientists to determine which notions are facts and which are not. And while it is fair to say that the largest number of scientists do believe the Earth is in a warming trend, far fewer can say with authority that they believe the cycle is more of a long-term trend. Of this number, even fewer can say with any certainty at all that the cause is specifically "greenhouse gases." And of these, even fewer say that these gases are specifically caused by human industry and the automobile. That having been said, there is no absolute proof that the planet is in a long-term warming pattern caused by human behavior. Until this theory is proven by solid empirical data, we are all just spitting in the wind.

You really have to question just about everything you hear these days.