Bravo, Gregory Rummo: Consensus is a dangerous thing

Consensus is a dangerous thing -- especially when the facts are flimsy, the data is subject to interpretation, there's an underlying political agenda, people can be frightened like lemmings into supporting a cause involving government funding, there's a religious, cult-like component, and a complicit and largely ignorant gaggle of mainstream journalists is all-too willing to cooperate in the cause-celebre.

I am speaking about anthropogenic (human-caused) carbon dioxide-induced global warming, or should I say what used to be called global warming until the data that poured in over the last two years showing that the earth has cooled drastically has made its hysterical proponents employ the classic bait-and-switch use of the term climate change.

Odd headline: "Growing Arctic sea ice likely to melt, says scientist"

Members of the Catlin Arctic Survey will be travelling on foot across what the group says will be a “disintegrating and shifting sea ice” for a 90-day trek.

If we don't know how thick the Arctic ice is, how supportable is this claim?

...the ice above the sea level (called “freeboard”) in the spring of 2008 is about two to four inches less than it was in spring 2007.