Candide - read the paper

If it can read, it probably can't comprehend, like so many others on this thread.

David

Tush, rpg, refusing to engage? Something to hide? If I were communicating with you, David (which I wasn't), I would have the courtesy not to insult the intelligence of a fellow poster merely on the basis of a difference of opinion. The phrase 'grow up' has just drifted out of my keyboard - I wonder why that happened?

candide, I don't mean to brag, but I'm not a climate scientist.

My understanding, reading the paper may be different to yours, since I have an engineering and company director background, I don't know yours and I would not consider myself skilled enough to explain to you the nuances of climate papers. That's more an educator's role.

Not a matter of engaging or not engaging, just a practicality.

Whenever a non climate scientist offers a technical opinion on these pages against AGW, they are howled down and drowned in derogatory sewerage. Which is why I keep my comments out of that zone. You note, I did not offer an opinion, just a quote and reference, not even a link.

Mind you if a non climate scientist offers technical climate science opinions supporting AGW, they are defended by the same lot, in fact their opinions are lauded.

So if you want the article explained to you, please appeal to any climate scientists who post on OLO, if you can find any.

good luck.

All the fortysix of you commentators will die twice, as individuals and as species, if you like it or you don't.

We all, like the dinosaurs, will be truly stoned in due time, no worries!

The question is: will we annihilate ourselves before the geological clock ticks for us?

"Yes we will"

Thanks for the reply rpg - any help out there from a scientist?

If you want a more cheerful outlook, sceptic, just think of the indestructibility of matter. The stuff we are made from will endure beyond our own passing, individually and as a species. I'm torn between wanting us to do something about global warming,overpopulation etc for the benefit of future generations, and thinking that it might be better for the survival of all the other lifeforms on the planet if homo sapiens was around for as short a time as possible.