Ok, I re-read it. On my re-read, it seemed even more like an apology for the god-hugging-us-closer model of climate change. It is inflating a barely-tenable relationship between the Carboniferous and the modern climate for the purpose of attacking the myriad of peer-reviewed articles on...
Actually, some of the information in the first link(http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Ca...s_climate.html ) has been contested recently - specifically, the information relating to hypothesized similarities between the Carboniferous and modern climates...