My recollection

Is that these extreme events

Are as predicted

Hang on to your money Atman, there are fewer and fewer staff at the CRU, Dr. David Viner has been de-listed. The US DoE withdrew their funding last year following climategate and the UK Gov. has slashed research grants. Not surprisingly, the CRU has lost much of its funding and is heading for academic "struggle street". Thank you very much Professor Jones.

Perhaps it was their forcast of "iminent, irreversible catastrophic global freezing blamed on human use of coal and oil".

I hear that they are working on a new theory that a warmer planet will attract reptilian based aliens.

From what I have read about El Nino and La Nina, a La Nina is associated with lower temperature waters in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. I notice that this article says "When a La Niña effect rules, as it does now, the sea surface in the central and western Pacific is generally cooler". So, I think that is incorrect.

Does anyone know of any serious studies re shipping & air traffic impact ? Or satellite launches ? How many rockets & shuttles have burst through the ozone layer ? All the nuclear tests underwater, on land & above ground ? I'm sure that all exhaust emission pales to insignificance when compared to all the aforementioned. I have no doubt that all this activity has an impact but climate change itself is a natural cycle. Our impact is merely speeding up climate change & shortening the ice-age intervals from 10,000 years to 9500. I believe the last one was 8000 BC.

I'll accept the climate change hypothesis until climatologists change their minds. I don't really value the opinions of economists,lawyers or any non specialists on the subject.

The politics behind climate change/global warming denial-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4UF_Rmlio

"" AGW activists claimed that Global Warming would bring about an endless drought in Australia. The snowfields would, according to them, be seriously affected, and in the UK, the winters were supposed to be very mild from now on. All of this was proven to be completely wrong.""

Posted by Atman, Friday, 4 February 2011 1:55:20 PM

Not claimed specifically by activists, but hypothesised that southern Australia would experience more prolonged dry periods - below the Tropic of Capricorn - to the extend it would be harder to run cattle in some areas, etc.

One season does not a climate make.

""Ian Plimer pointed out correctly at the time, that a warmer climate did indeed hold more water and was likely to result in greater not lesser rainfall. He was roundly criticised by AGW activists for that view.""

Ian Plimmer would be right, and these vague AGW activists ought to be cited by you.