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[Tormod]

I think the original post is quite funny. Back when I worked at the Norwegian Space Centre I had a colleague who could basically use any statistic to support the global warming theories (for example the amount of Republicans in Congress vs the solar cycles).

But the basic premise is of course that this is flawed science, and simply buying the global warming theories on face value is a tough buy for a lot of people. One thing is accepting that a star is 4 light years away (who can imagine what sort of distance that is, anyway?), quite another is to expect people to understand the complexity of the interaction between the atmosphere and the planet's biosphere. When quack science i used at all ends of the table it doesn't help anyone.