Davsav;
Could you please give me a pointer to where abouts in the IPCC documents
they take into account the hydrocarbon depletion.

Freediver that link works for me. You should get a page where you
select English or German.
You might try the ASPO.net web page, there is probably a link on there.
I have to go out soon so I'll look this afternoon and send you other links.
It is a well know report. Try Google Energy Watch Report Coal I am
sure that will find it.

Dear DavSav,

please read this post for a sober view of climate change: http://leonbertrand.blogspot.com/2007/11/scientists-release-more-hot-air.html

That guy seems a bit too confused to be criticising real climate scientists. From your link:

"The Courier Mail reports that some left wing Australian scientists have warned that the world is warming faster than predicted by the United Nations.

"This is absolutely absurd. The truth is that 1998 was the warmest year on record. Therefore, the earth has actually been slightly cooling since then.

So according to this guy we have a year of global warming, followed by a year of global cooling, then maybe another year of cooling, then warming and so on, with no long term trend? What a crock.

The sunspot count for November stands at zero. We are entering a new solar cycle. If it is as intense as predicted then prepare to break out your fur coats (and perhaps a little humble pie). Although I expect that the eco-chondriacs won't miss a beat in a cooling world, but instead move on with nary a breathe to the next 'sky-is-falling' scare.

If it cools off a bit tonight or next winter, does that also mean global warming isn't real?

Freediver;
Here is the URL for the German Energy Watch.

http://www.energywatchgroup.org/Reports.24+M5d637b1e38d.0.html

IT works I did a google serach and there it all is.
Actually the warmest years have been reported as being in the 1930s.
There seems to me to be so much argument over temperatures that it is
hard to get a grip on it.
The last quote I heard is that there is as much sense in talking about
average global temperatures as there is in global average phone numbers.

Actually that was not just a clever remark, he was making the point
that you just can't add them all up and divide by the number of them.

Re sunspots this last year or two has been the worse ionospheric
conditions I can remember in many many years of observing in a
practical way the sunspot count.
So if sun activity is thought to cause global warming then it does not
support that theory in this part of the eleven year cycle.
Unless of course that it might support those who say there is no
increase in temperature since 1976.