Good choice of words there JohnBennetts, "Untrained zealots and Anthony, take note", could it be you are gaining some understanding? Yes I know, very doubtful, as you are no doubt "trained" as the vast majority of academics.

Trained to regurgitate something selected by your trainers as a good thing to train you in.

It is a pity that the necessity of obtaining research grants has meant universities no longer educate, but train. Train to believe stress causes stomach ulcers. Trained to believe the Y2K bug would stop the world in an instant. Gee that one was a good money spinner.

Then trained to spout global warming. Wow, what a money spinner that one has been.

Still if you weren't so well trained, perhaps you would realise that one is now done. Your masters are busy looking for the next, but of course, they'll have to train you to believe in it, after they find it.

Meanwhile, do keep making a fool of yourself, along with your trained mates. Must be careful, I almost typed monkeys. You know the theory, we only read the first & last letters of a word, so having watched you & said mates behaviour for a while, it would be a reasonable mistake.

Hasbeen,

Just musing....

Are you saying that everyone just sat on their rumps and did nothing in the case of Y2K - or did they take some pretty hefty measures to mitigate foreseeable problems?

curious M
Look, sorry, but you completely misunderstood what I was saying. I dunno if you've been aware of recent developments and my earlier posts but the scientists have admitted that temperatures trends in the past decade are not as expected. ie - headline warming has been much less than expected.. This is now widely admitted and acknowledged both informally and in the literature. There have been attempts to explain the "pause" as its being called.

So I wasn't challenging the theory, I was pointing out that with its poor forecasting record to date (both in rainfall and temperatures) its not really possible to base theory on it..

Curmudgeon,

Care to explain all the other "pauses" during the late twentieth century, in particular. You know the ones that preceded the rises?

Is this one different?

http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=47

Perhaps if you don't know the answer to that Poirot, that explains why you still believe in global warming.

Thousands of aircraft, with untouched computers did not fall out of the sky.

Hundreds of thousands of business computers rolled over to 1.1.00 & just kept working. I really don't recall a single instance of a computer having a nervous breakdown.

Yes it cost the taxpayer billions, a really good scam. Still not a patch on the global warming effort, that has made hundreds of billionaires.

Hear hear Hasbeen. Y2K bug had it all, catchy name, lots of gloomy looks, promises of disaster, earnest intelligent people telling us the world was going to end and Aaaaaaaaaaaaa, nothing! As far as I know no enquiry of that scam.
Global warming you can just shove it! The ABC can report the lie of the hottest summer on record but it is nonsense and I for one am sick of paying for it.
I am going to email my MP's and tell them drop global warming funding and the NBN. When the government last had the phones we waited 6 weeks for a phone but the local SP had 20 lines that afternoon. Of course I did not bribe anyone.
That tells you all about these scams.