Oops! I drifted off topic, as Allan correctly points out. Sorry, I was busy posting scientific proof that Michael Mann's "hockey stick" graph was an erroneous reconstruction -- and I conflated the 2 controversies.

CFCs is something different: it's related to the [[ozone depletion]] controversy - which is what Dr. Connolley and I were discussing earlier today.

The only relation to global warming is the similarity in how the two ideas have been handled. In both cases:

1. There was never any scientific consensus. 2. Politicians rushed in, urging quick action.

Ironically, on the CFC issue I might be running counter to my own "cult" (or "church" as I prefer to call it: Hi, Fred :-) because Rev. Moon made a passing reference to ozone depletion which indicated a position somewhere between a "concern" and a "belief" that CFCs were causing harm to the ozone layer. That's my problem: insufficient brainwashing, leading to independent thought!

Cheers.

Ed Poor