This month's AARP Bulletin says that 2006 was the warmest year on record for the US. That may be, but it was far from the warmest in the DFW area. I think 1936 still stands as the hottest summer on record in the US. The AARP Bulletin states flat out that increased carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is causing the temperature of the world to increase. Maurice Strong and Al Gore and the IPCC have gotten this to be the conventional wisdom. It seems to me that many of the people who have embraced the global warming religion have trouble coming to grips with the reality that the Life of Earth is finite. Eventually the sun will die. Even before that life on Earth will end. It is inevitable, and there is nothing man can do about it. The Earth is overdue for the next ice age, and there is little reason to doubt that another ice age cycle will occur, and based on the history of earth it will probably happen soon, which on the Earth time scale is a few hundred years..