Stupidest question asked by a Congressman of Al Gore: "What does your modeling tell you about how long we're going to be around as a species?"

When people start asking computer models to give us obviously unknowable knowledge, clearly the predictive power of computer models is vastly over-estimated by laymen who've been duped by people like Al Gore into believing you can feed just about anything into a computer model, and out pops your answer.

Best of the Web Today: Not Cool Anymore: Global warmism's winter of discontent. - WSJ.com

[LA Times] Solomon said in a statement that absorption of carbon dioxide by the oceans and release of heat from the oceans - the one process acting to cool the Earth and the other to warm it--will "work against each other to keep temperatures almost constant for more than 1,000 years."

Is it absolutely crucial to the planet's future that we curtail greenhouse gases this instant, or would it not make any difference anyway? If the latter, what sense does it make to be alarmed? And that last quote by Solomon is a classic head-scratcher. We're supposed to worry that temperatures will be "almost constant for more than 1,000 years"? That's what they mean by global warming?