To the Editors of Scientific American:

"THERE IS SOMETHING FASCINATING ABOUT SCIENCE.  ONE GETS SUCH WHOLESALE RETURNS OF CONJECTURE OUT OF SUCH A TRIFLING INVESTMNET OF FACT" - Mark Twain

In response to your December, 2007 editorial, indeed, talk is cheap!  The inconvenient truth is that the editors of Scientific American should change the name of the magazine to Political Science American.  For the past 15 years you have ignored true science and have gone the way of politics, innuendo, half truths and political bigotry.  Yes, global warming is happening but you steadfastly entrench yoursleves in spewing the mantra that man is the cause.  Man is not the cause, and you refuse to publish all the great science on how the mean solar radiation from the sun is increasing.  When the sun increases its sunspots, you get increased global warming.  Never since recorded time has the sun increased its sunspots as much as the last century.  However, since 1880, the mean temperature has only increased 1/2 degree Celsius, from the data at giss.nasa.gov.  And Antarctica in the same time frame has become colder from the same data.  Carbon dioxide is the product of increased temperature, not the other way around.  Humans produce less than 5% of the carbon dioxide.  Volcanoes and decaying plants produce most of the carbon dioxide on the earth.  Termintes produce more methane than humans than humans produce carbon dioxide and methane is definitely a more potent greehouse gas than carbon dioxide.  The total weight of termintes exceeds the total weight of all humans on the earth.  But, carbon dioxide is irrelevant!  Water vapor and its increasing amount in the atmosphere is the largest greenhouse gas on this earth.  As the sun increases its temperature, water vapor from the oceans is increased, and water vapor has the greatest effect on our weather and the global warming porblem.  You cry that the ice is melting and that New York City will be inundated due to the rising sea levels.  The biggest predictor from solid science that I have found is that the sea level will rise no more than 1/2 inch in 100 years!  There is simply too much ocean water on earth to be affected by ice melt.  New Yorkers would disagree with you on global warming after the 15 feet of snowfall they received last winter.  The biggest problem with melting ice is the possible change to the system of ocean currents that bring warmth to Europe.  The continued melting could bring a cold snap to the northern latitudes and throw us into the reverse problem, as described in the November Scientific American of 2004.  And Greenland was much warmer 1000 years ago than now and we know that from the ice cores that have been taken.  The measures you urge has little basis in fact or science.  Groups with other agendas are hiding behind this global warming movement that appears high-minded.  It is time for you to stop spewing hot air, get back to good science or change the name of your magazine.  INDEED, TALK IS CHEAP!