Promepete:"Rachel Carson was a purveyor of 'junk science' and could be said to have rivalled Pol Pot and Mao with the number of deaths her perverted science was responsible for."

Yes, but only by people who don't know any history (and don't care) and only read right-wing blogs and opinion pieces for their information because they fit their particular prejudices.

In other words, yes, it could be said, but is usually only actually said by morons.

Crispin,

Time to explain, including to real estate or related industry speculators, that you can have a vibrant community, with new products arising all the time, with full employment, by stabilising our population growth.

The billions wasted on more people and the related polluting infrastructure, could alternatively be spent on non-carbon emitting technology, education, health and high end manufacture and services.

The basic design is to balance inflow and outflow of residents and abolish the baby bonus . If 100,00 leave each year, then bring in 100,000 . Our birthrate is double our death rate ( ABS Stats ), so get rid of the baby bonus . Finally, our foreign aid should all be targeted at world stabilsation.

Cheers,

Ralph

Re CFC's my understanding was that the manufacture was transferred from the West to India and Russia and they are producing more CFC's today than were produced 20 years ago? Please discuss.

Regarding CFCs and DDT:
I visited Pakistan in 1991 and noticed the absence of insects in rural areas
where there were vast cotton fields. The use of DDT was universal!
I wonder if things have changed at all!

Brian Lynch

JBowyer: "Re CFC's my understanding was that the manufacture was transferred from the West to India and Russia and they are producing more CFC's today than were produced 20 years ago?"

Is it "your understanding"? Where do you come by this marvelous information?

Probably the same place Mark Lawson got that the Russian Academy of Sciences doesn't have a position on climate change. Those Ruskies eh? LMAO.

I'm an open water Yachtsman. I take a keen interest in the weather, meteorology, and all things that effect the weather.

Most of my learning has been based around information passed on by RN officers who have written books. Their knowledge is based on the RN experience of the weather over 600 odd years.

Oddly a couple of the features they rely heavily upon in forcasting weather I rarely see raised or discussed as a possibility in effecting the current changing climate patterns.

Guess what they are

I know and am laughing at all those scientists and alarmists who tell me the climate is changing and extreme weather events are caused by rising co2 emissions