Hi Steele,

I wish I had buddies :( But unfortunately, I have to do my own thinking. So please tell me, how much have average world temperatures gone up over the past, say, fifty years ? Trying to find this sort of information is, for klutzes like me, very difficult. Just give me a figure to work with. A degree per decade over the last fifty years ? Two degrees ?

Otherwise, what can I go on ? Adelaide is such an average sort of place, I'll stick with it unless I get a better offer :)

So what's your take on sea-level rise over the last fifty or a hundred years ? More than an inch a decade ?

Cheers,

Joe

Half a degree hotter than 80 years ago ? Where the temperature gauges that accurate then ?

To Loudmouth.

And prior to that. the temperature went down. And prior to that, the temperature went up. And prior to that, the temperature went down. And prior to that, the temperature went up. And prior to that, the temperature went down.

Earth's climate heats and cools every 1000 years. The present warming trend is right on schedule, and is different from all preceding warming periods only because it coincided with human industrialisation.

Human Induced Global Warming is based upon a reasonable assumption, but it is impossible to measure and therefore entirely unproven. It may be cause for concern but not panic. It may justify continued research, but not the complete destruction of the world economy with the only outcome being that the entire population of the world must return to being rural peasants.