Well, it's been a while since I said anything incendiary....

So how about climate change?

Now I'm not saying global warming caused Katrina, though climate change certainly wasn't giving us any favors.

And I'm not saying there isn't natural, healthy climate change that just happens over the millennium, but us dumping who-knows-what into the environment certainly isn't helping.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/
science/02/16/greenland.glaciers.ap/index.html

And the scientific process depends on skepticism and free thought, leaving room for radical breakthroughs just as for radical wackos. So you'll always be able to find some guy in a lab coat who'll say his diet pill is the best.

But when when almost all the relevant nations of the world...
(http://climatechange.unep.net/)

and the relevant scientists...
(http://www.climatescience.gov/)

have signed on, you've certainly got my attention. And when the Catholic Church, who have at times not been quite the quickest on the scientific uptake (that universe circling the Earth, Galileo, burning at the stake thing...) signs on...

http://www.nccbuscc.org/sdwp/
international/globalclimate.htm#scientific

and a goodly number of other religious folks, too....

http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=43282
(and I did a search of FOXNews for that one... their articles didn't come up, but they gave me that link)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3728692.stm
http://www.eni.ch/articles/display.shtml?06-0140

to what extent is human-influenced climate change still so debatable and by how many degrees is it just something we need to warm up to.