The real signature of greenhouse warming is not surface temperature but temperature in the middle of the troposphere, about 5 kilometers up. If global warming is occurring from an increasing greenhouse effect due to CO2 additions by humans the temperature of the middle troposphere should be warming faster than Earth’s surface (1,2). However, the opposite has been happening– which suggests either the surface temperature records are in error or natural factors, such as changes in solar activity, may be responsible for the slight rise in surface temperatures (approximately 0.6° C, globally) that appears to have occurred over the past century.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_100_yrs.html

“Temperatures have increased by about 0.5° C over the last 100 years. Most of these increases occurred in the first 50 years of this time period.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) has also increased over the last 100 years– from about 300 ppm to 370 ppm. Interestingly, the majority of these additions have occurred in the last 50 years, when temperature increases have been slowest.

Independent data from orbiting satelites have been continuosly measuring global temperatures since the 1970′s and indicate that over the last 25 years there has actually been a slight decrease in overall global temperatures.

Assuming that at least part of the source of CO2 additions in the last 50 years is anthropogenic (man-made), the likely scenario is (at the level of additions involved) that CO2 concentrations in our atmosphere are an effect of temperature– not the other way around. The perturbation of CO2 equilibrium has not had the proportional effect on temperature that greenhouse activists predict.”

Also, you should know that part of my degree program at the technical college that I attended was an environmental sciences class. I got an A. And just from that class alone, and my teacher was a raving Liberal BTW, I can tell you that half of the things you think you know about the environment and atmospheric processes are just plain wrong. That class, more than anything else, opened my eyes to just how many lies, and misrepresentations are out there that people like you accept as us unassailable fact.

“So what happened to global warming?
Scientists who study climate say they get that question every time there’s a cold spell. Their answer: It’s important to keep in mind an important concept.
Weather is not climate.
Weather, as we all know, is what we see in the day-to-day, often unpredictable fluctuations in local temperature, humidity, precipitation and wind.
“The fact that we had a couple of cool months doesn’t say anything at all about long-term trends,” said Mark Serreze, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “It’s just a clear example of natural variability on the climate system. The long-term averages are decidedly toward a warming planet.”-”

So I would suggest to you Ashley that a couple of years of hot, dry weather doesn’t say anything at all about long-term trends.
Also, looking at weather history for Little Rock, (I picked Little Rock because it is in central Arkansas, and you said you live in the middle of Arkansas), July had 2.7″ of precipitation. And August so far has had 1.57″ of precipitation. It may not be very much, or enough, but I wouldn’t call it nothing.
Another thing too is that no one has claimed that there has been no effect from emissions. What the controversy centers on is to what extent that effect is, and to what kind of feedback will work toward strengthening the effect, (positive feedback,) or diminishing the effect, (negative feedback). AGW skeptics believe that the effect is very small, and there is a lot of scientific evidence that would suggest that this is true. Such as the diminishing effect of saturation in the IR bandwidths in the heat absorbing properties of CO2. There is also historic data that clearly show that there were periods in history that had higher temperatures with less CO2, and cooler temperatures with more CO2 than there is now.
As far as misspelling words, I spell rigid with a “d” in it because I am a service technician and every time I see that word it is on a hand tool. And the company that makes those tools is named Ridgid. They use a “d” in their name. So excuse the heck out of me for spelin uh wurd rong. We don’t judge people on their spelling ability, or lack thereof here. Nobody is perfect.

That ain’t love brother. Call it what you want though, denial and self-rightousness are an awesome thing for the hypocritical. chrip chirp