(Apologies for the long post.)

The UN global warming report was published with 52 scientists signing on. In 2007 over 400 scientists refuted it. In 2008 that number has grown to over 650.

This one caught my eye. Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

Here's in interesting clip from C. Hall (SUNY-Syracuse prof, after attending the 33rd International Geology Conf in Norway).

"I could not at first figure out why there was so much hostility between the two climate groups. At first I thought it empiricists vs modelers, although each group was somewhat mixed. Then I concluded that it is the geologists, used to studying constant climate change over very long time periods of Earth's history, who think that basically the climate of the earth is always changing due to various forcings, and what's the big deal now? The IPCCers respond that the Earth has never seen CO2 levels such as we are headed for and that the CO2 changes produce a strong enough signal to change the climate. And on and on. John Holdren has recently prepared a point by point response to the anti IPCCers which I will try to send out. Then we can expect a rebuttal to that and so on."

Now, to address the people that are readying their retorts that I don't agree with their particular views on this subject, hold off. 1) this is supposed to be about the consciousness of Porsche. 2) I will often include arguments from both sides of an issue, don't be goaded into thinking one way or another.

So, Steve, YOU have to decide your actions and inactions. Is the Porsche "right"? IMHO, I think you can safely say yes. After all, how much are you driving it? You appear to have significant remediations, to offset the Porsche. You're not tooling around the country in a motorcade of Escalades, etc.

I also think Steve and his liked minded folks will find this interesting: http://www.theoildrum.com/tag/passive_solar_series

Along with the discussion about a passive solar house 20 miles north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (About 10 posts down.) http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/4947#comments_top

I've been contemplating the construction of my retirement home. I've got a chunk of land in central New Hampshire, on the side of knoll. I'm working on the idea of building into the side of a hill, with massive (12") double concrete walls. Using the air space between for an insulating layer. Convection of warm air between the walls, stored in a heat sink (drums filled with water & gravel) in a lower level. Closed loop circulating pump to run water to the roof for heat collection during the day.

I have other ideas, but I'm very tired and need to move on. (Production issue, have been here since 3am.) Thanks for your time.