The New Yorker's three-part article on Global Warming

This last issue of the New Yorker concluded a well written three-part article on the current trend towards Global Warming. Well written but not well researched because good research is comprehensive research and takes into account all sides, not just the knee-jerk populist ones... Fortunately, for each of the New Yorker articles, Bill Steigerwald writes a rebuttal. The New Yorker articles are here Part One, Part Two (#3 not online yet) Ben's rebuttals make for great reading -- a cluebat if you will... Part One, Part Two and Part Three If you have read any of my past articles here, you will know that I do not deny the earth is entering a gradual warming period. What I do not agree with is that people are causing this or making it a much larger phenomena than if it was left to "natural causes:. Nine hundred years ago, Viking settlers were growing wine grapes on the south Greenland coastline. In the 1500's, people were ice skating on the great rivers and canals of Europe. When was the last time the River Thames froze over? The primary greenhouse gas is good old H2O, Co2 is a minor also-ran and to track that is being Mr. Bad is an exercise in uselessness...