[HerbZ]

Didn't get my PhD, so I don't feel quite right jumping in here with both feet. Besides, though I taught Physical Geography (which deals extensively with weather & climate) as a graduate assistant when working on my masters (for only one year, the other year I was the cartography graduate assistant, sort of a glorified drafting instructor), I'm really a regionalist who specialized in two countries in central Europe that have long since gone out of existence (one having become once again part of one country, the other having split into two). But I'll venture that I know a bit more about weather and climate than most other members of this forum.

Global Warming is a fact. You may not like it, neither do I. You may despise the left wing politicians who are exploiting this issue for their own political advantage, so do I. But that don't change what is a well proven scientific fact. We can debate various aspects and quibble about the proportionality of blame for it, but none of this changes the fact that it's here.