Climate Change I: sources of evidence for change

Although this is not a rant, it's also not an invitation for every anti-climate-change enthusiast in the known universe to come barging in here and argue.  You have your spaces to hold forth, which I don't go causing trouble in, and I have mine.

Having issued that warning, I was privy to another discussion in a closed list, and once more amazed at the misunderstanding of the original thesis and subsequent events within the scientific community as well as in the public mind.

The...