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Global warming hysteria: how the pendulum has swung : Comments

By Terry Dunleavy, published 14/5/2008

The fierce discussion about the pros and cons of human-caused climate change has finally started to spread to the mainstream press.

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A tiny problem with the global cooling theory; parts of Australia and I suspect NZ are about to report their warmest driest autumn ever.
Posted by Taswegian, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 9:11:00 AM
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Whether cooling or warming Taswegian it confirms climate change predictions. Warmest this, coolest that, driest the other.

Yet another attempt to muddy the waters.
Posted by bennie, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:03:08 AM
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Yet another author who has fallen victim of the dismal state of scientific reporting. If one does a search through the peer reviewed literature one finds a consensus that human activity is having an impact on the climate. Those scientists who argue against climate change tend to be published in mainstream literature. Where there is disagreement it tends to be about the impact that concentrations of CO2 will have on the climate - here the results tend to be on how one constructs the models. An increase in CO2concentrations can do anything from trigger a new ice age to major global warming - a new Permian age. Ultimately prudent policy is not about 100% certaintity - just as you take an umbrella out if there is the threat of rain so it would be prudent to take the necessary steps to ensure we do not unwittingly contribute to climate change.
Posted by BAYGON, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:08:56 AM
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Is that smoke I see coming out of Mr Dunleavy's pockets? I just took a quick look at the New York Times report on the paper in Nature he mentions in his third paragraph and found this:

'The authors stressed that the pause in warming represented only a temporary blunting of the centuries of rising temperatures that scientists have projected if carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases continue accumulating in the atmosphere.

“We’re learning that internal climate variability is important and can mask the effects of human-induced global change,” said the paper’s lead author, Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany. “In the end this gives more confidence in the long-term projections.”'
Posted by Paul Bamford, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:21:11 AM
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GlowBULL Whining?

If you earth and peace loving, enviros that are needlessly scaring the crap out of our kids, really cared about anything BUT yourselves, you would stop taxing and banning things and making everyone else pay for your selfish do-gooding based on a non-existent crisis.

Ask any kid what life will be like for them or their kids later on a melting planet ravaged with storms and drought causing untold world suffering as promised by Al Gore, NASA, EPA and the UN. This is the first time since ancient sieges where an entire generation of young people now coldly accepts the possibility of suicide in their future.

25 years of Climate change is clearly just weather, a green Da Vinci Code, political and a media perfect storm that reminds us that yes, a civilized society can be so twisted, it thinks we are stronger than nature itself.

We are living longer than at any time in history and it is obviously not the environment that is killing us.
So get ahead of the curve because history will laugh and cry at humans changing the temperature of the planet.

GREEN IS MEAN
Posted by mememine69, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:23:30 AM
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It really is a pity that Online Opinion continues to provide a forum for these disingenuous liars. By all means, have a debate on these issues, but let's have legitimate opinion, rather than this kind of deliberate misinformation from nonsense pedlars and shills. Come on Graham Young, you can do better than this.
Posted by NorthWestShelf, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:34:21 AM
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