What Do We Think About Climate Change

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  1. Guillermo
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    Thanks Jack.
    From a letter posted in that blog, regarding the hacked e-mails from CRU:

    "These serve to illustrate not that the scientists involved are engaged in fraudulent behavior for personal gain, but rather that they feel that it is their right or duty to be the gatekeepers of what information is allowed to be seen. I think it is clear that the scientists believe that they are correct. I think it is clear that they use this belief to justify actively engage in censoring their own results (and pressure others to censor theirs) to prevent full disclosure of the uncertainties involved in the methods they employ. I think it is clear that they use this belief to justify attempts to discredit legitimate criticisms, in some cases with the knowledge that those criticisms are accurate. I think it is clear that they use this belief to advocate suppressing free expression on the internet. I think it is clear that they use this belief to attempt to manipulate the peer review process to present their results in a way that lends more credibility to their conclusions than otherwise would be the case. This is advocacy, not science. It in no way invalidates AGW theory, but it does call into question the certainty with which these scientists claim to understand the magnitude of the AGW effect – and, by extension, the magnitude and timing of the anticipated consequences."

    See the full thing at: http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/the-perspective-of-a-scientific-skeptic/

    Cheers.
     
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    Guillermo, Do you feel this will have a significant impact at the Copenhagen meeting due very soon? (have I got the correct venue?)
     
  3. Guillermo
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    Guillermo Ingeniero Naval

    I don't think so, Masa. Dices are on the air....
    But my bet is that there will not arise a firm commitment at all from the Copenhague summit to reduce CO2 emissions. Just political blah, blah, blah.

    Cheers.
     
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    Guillermo,

    Thinks are hotting up. CEI Files Notice of Intent to Sue NASA GISS

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/24/cei-files-notice-of-intent-to-sue-nasa-giss/#more-13153

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    The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia is a “leading centre” for the investigation of “manmade global warming” and government policy relies on the integrity of these statistics. Several claims have been made: that data was “cherry picked” to make the 20th century temperature rise look exceptional in historical terms; emails suggest the unit has colluded in “tricks” to “hide the decline” in a high profile scientific journal, and this unit has colluded in active, secret and highly political campaigning through the website “realclimate”.

    The preparation of climate statistics require many judgments: stations move & sites become surrounded by urban sprawl (urban heating) & a judgment must be made of the size of the offset to apply to the global temperature record. The University accepts most emails are genuine so it appears the Unit has been acting in a highly partisan way incompatible with that of a neutral body preparing and interpreting government data. We call on the PM to suspend all further use of the climate research unit until all pertinent allegations have been investigated and any action (if any) has been taken.

    http://camirror.wordpress.com/

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/24/climate-professor-leaked-emails-uea

    http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2009/11/global-warming-fraud-somebody-needs-to.html

    http://algorelied.com/

    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/viscou...rminggate-they-are-criminals-pjm-exclusive/2/

    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/three-things-you-absolutely-must-know-about-climategate/

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6927598.ece

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/

    Paul Hudson at BBC had emails from 12th October.

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    'Climategate' - What next?

    Paul Hudson | 20:02 UK time, Tuesday, 24 November 2009

    Comments (9)

    Like many of you I've been watching the story at the University of East Anglia develop with interest. I first became aware of the news late last week, but because of my weather and filming commitments couldn't deal with it myself and so passed the news on to some of my colleagues in the BBC's environment and science team, including our environment analyst Roger Harrabin who wrote about it on saturday morning, and Newsnight, who covered the story last night.

    As you may know, some of the e-mails that were released last week directly involved me and one of my previous blogs, 'Whatever happened to global warming ?'

    These took the form of complaints about its content, and I was copied in to them at the time. Complaints and criticisms of output are an every day part of life, and as such were nothing out of the ordinary. However I felt that seeing there was an ongoing debate as to the authenticity of the hacked e-mails, I was duty bound to point out that as I had read the original e-mails, then at least these were authentic, although of course I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the others.

    There are clearly some very serious issues that arise from the information that has been released. Some people are suggesting that spin has infiltrated science. Others worry that there are suggestions that the peer review process has been compromised and those with contrary views are being frozen out. There are issues regarding data; how has it been used? But those scientists that are convinced that man is responsible for global warming are troubled that all this takes attention away from the real issue here: that action is needed to be taken from the world's biggest polluters to cut carbon dioxide emissions. This was certainly the message that came across the morning, in this story on our science website.

    How will this all be resolved? Momentum does seem to be growing, from people on both sides of the argument, behind calls for a full independent enquiry that can once and for all get to the bottom of the many issues that have been raised. A recent survey showed that climate scepticism in this country is growing, and this episode may increase it further. Some would say that an enquiry is the only way to bring clarity to the science of global warming and climate change that has enormous implications for all of us.

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    'Climategate' - CRU hacked into and its implications

    Paul Hudson | 13:07 UK time, Monday, 23 November 2009

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    Very busy with forecast duties right now, but I do intend to write a blog regarding the UK Climate research centre (CRU) being hacked into, and the possible implications of this very serious affair.

    I will add comment on this page as soon as I can free up some time. But I will in the meantime answer the question regarding the chain of e-mails which you have been commenting about on my blog, which can be seen here, and whether they are genuine or part of an elaborate hoax.

    I was forwarded the chain of e-mails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the worlds leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article 'whatever happened to global warming'. The e-mails released on the internet as a result of CRU being hacked into are identical to the ones I was forwarded and read at the time and so, as far as l can see, they are authentic.

    More later. "

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/
     
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    masalai masalai

    Well done Guillermo and Pericles,

    I hope things progress with due honesty for a change... Take care...

    Economics events also seem to be heading for a major "event"... - My guess is the fall of the US$ and the GB pound - offset by the rise of gold bullion and collapse of many who hold "paper gold", gold derivatives, or not fully backed ETF products...
     
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    It is about time those charlatans were exposed. Hurrah!
     
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    Just published. :)

    Have a look at page 22 within this magazine:
    http://www.rutapesquera.com/rp77.pdf

    This is a shortened version of the original article I wrote and was published at the Spanish Naval Engineering Magazine in June.

    Cheers.
     
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    Nicely done Guillermo.

    La falacia del calentamiento global antropogénico

    The fallacy of man made global warming. :D :D

    Best regards,

    Perry
     
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    Bien escrito!

    Well written!
     
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    Guillermo through Google Translate:

    Of course the Earth has
    heated in recent times.
    As it has in numerous
    other times, even
    at rates much faster. Times
    the man did not exist or was engaged
    to burn the enormous quantities of
    burning fossil fuels today.
    Both the speed and magnitude of change
    current climate are lower than other
    that have occurred over the last 1,000,
    10,000 or 100,000 years, not to go too
    far back in time. We live in a
    transient interglacial period, which, like all
    the last will of much shorter duration
    that the glacial periods (10,000 against
    100,000 years, typically).
    The global warming
    have always brought plenty of food
    and wealth, social stability and rapid diversification
    of life on earth. History
    and archeology show us that
    global cooling have been small
    in extreme weather events,
    social unrest, migrations
    because of the weather, famine, disease,
    war, depopulation, collapse of civilizations
    and extinctions of plants and animals.
    At the moment we live in one of
    the best times that humans have
    had on the planet Earth, thanks to
    global climate and soft technology produces
    enough food for a population of
    over 6,700 million people, despite
    the doomsday predictions made
    thirty years. We are the only generation
    human fear times warm,
    who have demonstrated throughout history
    make us richer and healthier.
    The climate has always changed and always
    will. The sea level is also
    constantly changing. Life changes. The
    species extinctions are common. The
    Planet Earth is dynamic and evolves. The
    climate changes are cyclical and random.
    The Earth's climate has always changed
    with heating and cooling cycles
    long before the human race
    appeared on earth. If humans
    we are heating the planet now
    How, for example, periods
    Alternating between hot and cold periods
    during the current warming
    post-glacial? (*) (* Paragraph of the recent book
    Ian R. Plimer, Professor Emeritus
    Earth Sciences, University of
    Melbourne: "Heaven & Earth, Global
    Warming: The Missing Science. Connor
    Court Publishing Pty Ltd 2009 (www.connorcourt.
    com) ISBN: 97819214211198)
    The extent of Arctic sea ice,
    who had experienced a setback
    in the last thirty years until 2007,
    strictly natural reasons, again
    now recovering apace. Great
    variations of ice in the Arctic are normal,
    even to disappear completely,
    critically dependent on
    wind regimes and changes
    ocean currents and temperature.
    The extent of Antarctic sea ice
    leads in turn to grow at 30 years
    100,000 km 2 per decade. It is common
    Arctic and Antarctic trends show
    cooling-warming signs
    opposites. The polar bear populations
    are not endangered, having
    increased by about 600% in number
    in the last 30 years, since the
    restricted hunting. It's pathetic handling
    is being done based on images
    of this iconic animal taken out of context.
    Glaciers advance and retreat, even
    to disappear in some cases, as
    I have always done, without the
    CO2 emitted by humans have nothing to
    do with it. Greenland is a two degree
    colder than it was when the Vikings
    settled there, so now is
    impossible to obtain even the sparse crops
    was then obtained, or raising cattle.
    The mechanism of accelerated flow of
    any of its glaciers is not due to lubrication
    Water-based foundry,
    as advocated in some circles, if not
    mainly type strains
    plastic.
    Sea level has risen about 130 meters
    since the departure of the last age
    ice about 18,000 years ago and continues
    Moreover, the rhythm of a few millimeters
    per year. Recent studies predict
    a rise in sea level
    next 100 years only 7 cm to 80
    cm high. You can even occur
    to present some decades of decline
    in that period.
    The Great Barrier Reef and other
    which had been declared as severely
    threatened in recent years by a
    alleged ocean acidification due
    to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration,
    are recovering at a pace
    that puzzled scientists.
    Coral reefs flourished without problems
    during the Mesozoic period,
    when atmospheric CO2 concentrations
    were about 1,000 parts per
    million for 150 million years, and even
    exceeded 2,000 ppm for several
    million years, concentrations well
    higher than the current 380 ppm humble.
    Hurricanes and tornadoes are not rising
    in recent times, if not decrease significantly. Index
    Global Cyclone Energy is in these
    times the absolute minimum area
    in 30 years.
    If we look at the history of
    atmospheric CO2 concentration in the
    past 500 million years, we see that
    life has flourished vigorously on earth
    under conditions where concentrations
    CO2 were up to ten times higher
    than this. CO2 is not a pollutant gas
    or harmful to life, if not everything
    otherwise. High concentrations of CO2 in
    the atmosphere are favorable for the plant kingdom,
    which develops particularly well
    under such conditions. And with it the animal life.
    CO2 is a trace gas in Earth's atmosphere,
    with concentrations below
    0.04%. Anthropogenic emissions of
    CO2, including the huge current rate of 26
    billion tons per year, represent
    only a mere 3% of the natural exchange
    of this gas between oceans, rocks and
    plants with the atmosphere. The cumulative effect
    of all the CO2 emitted by humans
    during industrial times is estimated
    in the small number of part per thousand
    of all global greenhouse gas
    in the atmosphere in this
    time.
    The main greenhouse gas is steam
    water, which contributes over 95%
    to this effect and allows life on earth
    as we know it. No feedback
    positive correlation between atmospheric CO2 and
    water vapor, as advocated, if not
    quite the contrary.
    The mild increase in mean temperature
    of the atmosphere over the last hundred years,
    the order of 0.6 degrees, experienced
    over that time oscillations that are
    a pattern more similar to the activity
    solar and the large temperature fluctuations
    ocean, than that of the soft
    continuously increasing concentration of
    Atmospheric CO2 which informs us
    Mauna Loa record, reflecting both
    the natural and anthropogenic contributions.
    There is a direct relationship between
    atmospheric CO2 and average temperature
    the planet. All computer models
    used by the Panel
    Intergovernmental Change
    Change (IPCC by its acronym in English) have
    failed to predict global cooling
    that is occurring in the 21st century despite the
    rise in atmospheric CO2.
    Predictions and Recommendations
    the various IPCC reports are not
    conclusions of the scientific community,
    not those of organizations interested in alarmed
    and politicians who follow them.
    Lack of scientific rigor and have been built
    manipulating data, ignoring thousands of
    studies that contradict their thesis, and misrepresenting
    even the conclusions of some
    reports of the scientists themselves
    who have collaborated with the Panel. Crass
    errors and statistical manipulation as
    in the case of the famous Hockey Stick, have exaggerated
    selfishly trends
    temperature records and projected
    the future exclusively from the
    ascending branch of the last change
    temperature between 1975 and 2000. Blame the
    the effect of climate change emissions
    anthropogenic CO2 and pretend that the
    humans can do something to influence
    climate declining, is the fallacy planetary
    largest ever told.
    The actions being taken in the
    sense of trying to control climate change
    reducing CO2 emissions
    anthropogenic, are quite wasteful
    useless and unnecessary money and effort,
    also unsupportive.
    These absurd actions are directly
    against the welfare and development
    peoples of the poorest countries, while
    richer some players in the system
    control and emission trading and
    to those who profit from public money
    to their interests. Even some of those
    actions could spell disaster
    and a serious ecological threat to humanity,
    such as the kidnapping of this
    gas in deep water, planting of compounds
    iron in the ocean or the making
    billion orbiting reflecting glasses
    sunlight.
    A warmer planet is a planet
    green, while a colder planet
    a planet's driest deserts and over,
    as evidenced by all paleoclimatic records.
    Which leads to increased desertification
    global level is not warming
    overall, if not the cooling, because
    to lower relative humidity of cold air. The
    extreme desert area on the Earth for
    18,000 years old, excluding the areas covered
    by ice, spread over an area
    total of around three times the current.
    The dense forest areas were only
    tiny fraction of today. The
    planet is not August, if not greening
    in this departure from the Little Age
    ice.
    The real test of the capacity of agriculture
    to deal with famine
    not come during the warm periods.
    Coming in the cold, especially during the
    next ice age, when stunning
    ice over a mile
    thick cover back to Canada, Siberia,
    Russia and much of Europe and the plains
    North America are too cold
    for agriculture. Then humanity and
    most of the animals converge
    on relatively little land available around
    Ecuador, producing more
    variegation that the planet has ever known
    never.
    The air and ocean temperatures have
    been decreasing over the last ten years
    and astrophysicists and geologists predict stubbornly
    that the trend will last at least
    by 2040 or so. We should be
    wondering how we should act
    if the cooling stage has overtones
    coming to be true, as seems
    indicate. And we should ask
    what will happen if these come to be cold weather
    longer and deeper than expected
    How can we address them to avoid
    that could become a humanitarian catastrophe
    with unpredictable consequences?
    I think that our politicians and institutions,
    especially now that approximates
    the Copenhagen summit should look
    all possible scenarios
    climate change and focus as
    adapt to them, especially the more dangerous,
    it is global cooling.
    They should concentrate on finding out as
    economically produce and distribute sufficient
    food and energy in such a scenario and
    prevent social and geo-strategic implications,
    rather than devoting their energies and
    our limited money to hysterical scaremongering
    on a warm current that does
    if not protect us as a species. Russia and
    has given us a show last winter
    than you can assume control of the supply
    energy in cold weather.
     
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    It is no secret that I stand four square with Guillermo and all the other supporters at this site, in vigorously refuting man made warming. Sure, the world warmed naturally between 1980 and 1998 and now it's cooling, naturally. Let us hope that the cooling stops PDQ.

    Boat builders will be aware of Nigel Calder http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...e=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=Nigel Calder

    Look at this though. It's the same man working with Henrik Svensmark. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chilling-Stars-Theory-Climate-Change/dp/1840468157

    I am delighted. :D :D :D :D :D

    Henrik Svensmark is THE MAN with regards to the sun. See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/...eginning-enjoy-global-warming-while-it-lasts/

    There will be some who will grouse at this news, (you know whom you are), but Calder is top notch about boats and, guess what? He's clever about climate.

    Yes, yes, yes!!!

    Perry
     
  13. Guillermo
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    Bringing google translation into some sense

    Let me do a quick "clean up" of the google translation Ragnar posted:

    "Of course the Earth has warmed in recent times. As it has done in numerous other times, even at rates much faster rates. Times when man did not exist or didn't burn out the enormous quantities of fossil fuels he's burning today. Both the speed and magnitude of change current climate are lower than other that have occurred over the last 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 years, not to go too far back in time. We live in a transient interglacial period, which, like all the last ones will be of much shorter duration that the glacial periods (10,000 against 100,000 years, typically).

    Global warming has always brought plenty of food and wealth, social stability and rapid diversification of life on earth. History and archeology show us that
    global cooling have brought extreme weather events, social unrest, migrations because of the weather, famine, disease, war, depopulation, collapse of civilizations and extinctions of plants and animals. At the moment we live in one of the best times that humans have had on the planet Earth, thanks to a warm global climate and technologies which allow the production of enough food for a population of over 6,700 million people, despite the doomsday predictions made thirty years ago. We are the only generation of humans who fear warm times, which have demonstrated throughout history to make us richer and healthier.

    Climate has always changed and always will. The sea level is also constantly changing. Life changes. The species extinctions are common. The Planet Earth is dynamic and evolves. The climate changes are cyclical and random. The Earth's climate has always changed with heating and cooling cycles long before the human race appeared on earth.

    "If we humans are heating the planet nowadays, how, for example, can we explain the alternating hot and cold periods during the current post-glacial warming?" (*) Paragraph of the recent book from Ian R. Plimer, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne: "Heaven & Earth, Global
    Warming: The Missing Science. Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd 2009 (www.connorcourt.com) ISBN: 97819214211198)

    The extent of Arctic sea ice, who had experienced a setback in the last thirty years until 2007, strictly because of natural reasons, is again now recovering up. Great variations of ice in the Arctic are normal, even to disappear completely, critically dependent on wind regimes and changes in ocean currents and temperature. The extent of Antarctic sea ice leads has been growing for the last 30 years at a pace of 100,000 km2 per decade. It is common Arctic and Antarctic trends show cooling-warming opposite signs. The polar bear populations are not endangered, having increased by about 600% in number in the last 30 years, since hunting was restricted. It's pathetic the manipulation is being done based on images of this iconic animal taken out of context.

    Glaciers advance and retreat, even to disappear in some cases, as they have always done, without the CO2 emitted by humans having something to do with it. Greenland is now a two degree colder than it was when the Vikings settled there, so now it is impossible to obtain even the sparse crops which were then obtained, or raising cattle as Vikings did. The mechanism of accelerated flow of any of its glaciers is not due to foundry water-based lubrication, as advocated in some circles, but due to plastic deformation.

    Sea level has risen about 130 meters since the coming out of the last ice age about 18,000 years ago, and continues to do so. Nowadays this happens at a rhythm of a few millimeters per year. Recent studies predict a rise in sea level of only 7 cm to 80 cm for the next 100 years. It may even happen some decades of decline in that period.

    The Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs which had been declared as severely threatened in recent years by a alleged ocean acidification due to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, are now recovering at a pace that puzzles scientists. Coral reefs flourished without problems during the Mesozoic period, when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were about 1,000 parts per million for 150 million years, and even exceeded 2,000 ppm for several million years, concentrations well higher than the humble current 380 ppm.

    Hurricanes and tornadoes are not increasing in recent times, but decreasing significantly. Global Cyclone Energy Index is in nowadays at its absolute minimum in 30 years.

    If we look at the history of atmospheric CO2 concentration in the past 500 million years, we see that life has flourished vigorously on earth under conditions where CO2 concentrations were up to ten times higher than today. CO2 is not a pollutant gas or harmful to life, but the contrary. High concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are favorable for the plants kingdom, which develops particularly well under such conditions. And with it the animal life.

    CO2 is a trace gas in Earth's atmosphere, with concentrations below 0.04%. Anthropogenic emissions of CO2, at the huge current rate of 26 billion tons per year, represent only a mere 3% of the natural exchange of this gas between oceans, rocks and plants with the atmosphere. The cumulative effect of all the CO2 emitted by humans during industrial times is estimated to be the small figure of part per thousand of all global greenhouse gas in the atmosphere in present time.

    The main greenhouse gas is water vapour , which contributes over 95% to this effect and allows life on earth as we know it. There is not positive feedback correlation between atmospheric CO2 and water vapor, as advocated, but quite the contrary.

    The mild increase in mean low-athmosphere temperature over the last century, in the order of 0.6 degrees, has experienced over that time oscillations which follow a pattern more similar to the solar activity and the large temperature fluctuations of the oceans, than that of the continuously increasing concentration of atmospheric CO2 we can find at the Mauna Loa records, which reflect both natural and anthropogenic contributions.

    There is not a direct relationship between atmospheric CO2 and the following average temperature of the planet. All computer models used by the Panel
    Intergovernmental Panel for Change Change have failed to predict the global cooling that is occurring in the 21st century despite the continuous rise in atmospheric CO2. Predictions and Recommendations of the various IPCC reports are not the conclusions of the scientific community, but those of organizations interested in alarming us and the politicians who follow them. They lack of scientific rigor and have build up data, have ignored thousands of studies that contradict their thesis, and even misrepresent the conclusions of some of the scientists who have collaborated with the Panel. Crass errors and statistical manipulation as in the case of the famous Hockey Stick, have selfishly exaggerated temperature trends and the projecting of the the future has been done exclusively from the ascending branch of the last increase of temperature happened between 1975 and 2000.

    To blame the climate change to anthropogenic CO2 emmissions and pretend that humans can do something to influence climate by controlling them, is the largest planetary fallacy ever told.

    The actions being taken in the direction of trying to control climate change reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions, are a useless and unnecessary waste of money and effort, as well as of low solidarity. These absurd actions are directly against the welfare and development of people in the poorest countries, while they make richer some players in the emission trading and control system and to the ones who profit from public money to their interests. Some of those actions could even spell disaster and put a serious ecological threat to humanity, such as the kidnapping of CO2 gas in deep water, planting of compounds iron in the ocean or the blanking of sunlight by billions of orbiting reflecting glasses.

    A warmer planet is a greener planet, while a colder planet a is a driest and more desertic one, as evidenced by all paleoclimatic records. Which leads to increased global desertification global is not an overall warming, but a cooling, because the lower relative humidity of cold air. The extreme desert area on the Earth 18,000 years back, excluding the areas covered by ice, spreaded over an area of around three times the present one. The dense forest areas were only a tiny fraction of today. The planet is not drying recently but greening in this its coming out from the Little Ice Age.

    The real test of the capacity of agriculture to deal with famine will not come during the warm periods. Will come at the cold ones, especially during the
    next ice age, when stunning ice over a mile thick covers back again Canada, Siberia, Russia and much of Europe, and the plains of North America will be too cold for agriculture. Then humanity and most of the animals will have to converge on the relatively little land available around the Equator, producing the biggest crowding that the planet has ever known.

    The air and ocean temperatures have been decreasing over the last ten years and astrophysicists and geologists predict stubbornly that the trend will last at least by 2040 or so. We should be wondering how we should act if the cooling stage comes to be true, as the records seem to indicate. And we should ask ourselves what will happen if those cold times come to be longer and deeper than expected. How can we avoid that becoming a humanitarian catastrophe with unpredictable consequences?

    I think that our politicians and institutions, especially now that the Copenhagen summit is close should be looking at all possible scenarios of climate change and focus on how to adapt to them, especially to the more dangerous one, which is global cooling. They should concentrate on finding out how to economically produce and distribute sufficient food and energy in such a scenario and prevent the social and geo-strategic implications, rather than devoting their energies and our limited money to the hysterical scaremongering about a warming that does nothing but protect us as a species. Russia has given already given us last winter a glimpse of the consequences of the control of the energy supply in cold weather."



    I hope it is a bit more clear now.
    Cheers.
     
  14. masalai
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    Guillermo Ingeniero Naval

    What can I say? I cannot criticise what's being done in other countries about CO2. I have enough with what's being done in mine.

    Among other amazing measures aimed to reduce CO2 emmissions and so fight climate change :rolleyes: , our ineffable government is prepairing a law forbidding to maintain a temperature under 26ºC in summer and higher than 21ºC in winter in administrative, commerce, recreative, cultural and public transport buildings in Spain.

    Nonsense is a well spread malady. :(
     
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