svguy

I will take it from that response that you do not believe that there has been an overall temperature rise over the last..... oh...... 55 years or so?

And/or I will take it that you do not believe that there has been an excursion in sea temperatures (and net energy in the sea) over that same approximate time?

Uhh...... okay........

So by your statement, global warming is not a problem, since there is no "warming"? Is that a correct assessment of your query above?

(i.e: most people who study this actually do realize that there is an upward movement in the temperature; the question is not whether the "anomaly" is occurring, the major questions are in the causation aspect of that "anomaly")

This is almost like the the story the attorneys tell about their training in law school about a dog bite case:

The defense states (all in one document):
"If the owner has a dog, it was in the yard and chained;
If the owner has a dog and it wasn't in the yard, it was controlled;
If the owner has has a dog and it wasn't controlled, there was no bite by that dog, it was another dog;
If the owner has a dog and that dog bit, then the complainer teased the dog;
If the owner's dog bit the person without provocation, there is only a slight injury;
If the owner's uncontrolled dog bit without provocation with more than slight injury, the defendant had it coming to them;
The owner has no dog;
Their was no bite -- ever."