Exactly!

It seems to me that weather is a pretty important factor for sailing. The first thing I do every morning is check the local weather on Intellicast or Weather Underground. I check to see which direction my flag is blowing and listen for whether my wind chimes are chiming, and I check our indoor-outdoor weather station for temperature and humidity and barometric pressure.

So I am VERY interested in the future trends of weather, whether it is going to be global warming or global cooling, and how that is going to affect sailing in all parts of the country and the world.

In other words, I think discussion of "global warming" is very relevant. It is just unfortunate that it has become so politicized that it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.

As was said in that article in the prior post, it is going to be very, very costly if businesses and nations plan on the basis of warming and it turns out to be cooling, or vice versa. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />