slant i read an article recently with an obvious anti-warming bias. let me repeat their statistics with somewhat more neutral rhetoric. 89% of meteorologists believe the earth is warming. presumably this is belief in warming above and beyond what can be explained by natural weather cycles. that's significantly less than the 97% of climate related scientists. and not at all surprising. when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ie the weather scientists look at the data and see weather. and the climate scientists look at the same data and see climate. what's surprising is that the two numbers are so close. about 30% of both groups say they're very worried about climate change. this actually sounds high to me. the #1 worry for long term thinkers is dealing with shortages caused by an ever increasing population with an ever decreasing energy supply. of which changing conditions on earth is a compounding factor. but is certainly not the cause. that rests squarely on the short term thinkers. 59% of meteorologists and 82% of climatologists think human activity is a significant factor. again, hammers and nails. with a larger more interesting degree of discord. probably healthy, too. the natural state of a scientist is skeptical. i really don't see a problem here. other than the slant of course. which is that there is no crisis. and we should do nothing. and let the free market solve the energy/food/water/population/pollution problems. heh. that's a strategy. and it will work. though we might be kinda horrified at the free market solution to shortages. people will fight for control of the dwindling supplies. the arab spring was triggered by the inavailibility of food. the future holds more of that. at lest until there's nothing left to fight over. then people will go without. they go hungry. they dehydrate. they die. with swollen bellies. not everyone, of course. just enough to get the population back down to what our production levels can support. that's the free market solution. if we do nothing.  ¶ 8:00 AM