Originally Posted by: quickfingers...scientists take ice core samples dating hundreds of thousands of years back, and like i said before, no natural record in history can make sense of how rapidly we are careening toward distaster.

Well, regarding this post and my last post above, looking into this on my own I came across this site of climatologists.and specifically that topic of ice cores. It's mainly a forum that will post an article and then scientists will respond to it with rebukes, Q&A's, and such. Also notice the links on the right that cover various topics. In my brief browsing through there it seems like a very fair and balanced atmosphere...haha, pun intended.