Look Dave, water by definition retains energy! This is also why certain countries and islands around warm water streams are temperate! For example, the entire United Kingdom and Ireland would probably be frozen without the warm waters of the gulf stream...

Also, it is becoming obvious now for most rational people that the ice is melting at the poles and also that temperatures and climates are changing rather rapidly around the world, but, at this early stage of evidence, to exclusively blame greenhouse gases as the main factor in these global Earth changes is what is naive at best!

For example, it is very much possible that our solar system could be entering a much more energetic area/place in space as part of a large macro cycle! As a matter of fact, many of the new electro-magnetic (EM) Universe theories do suggest exactly that and this is also the main theories that some of us, including me, are investigating...

IMHO, the greenhouse gases theories treat Earth pretty much as a closed system and there is, of course, no evidence of that! So, it is very much possible that the computer models are still wrong in assuming that greenhouse gases are the main cause!

It seems to me that just like evolution you seem to be very much eager to jump the gun on many of these issues!!!

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