I'll make you a deal, Loudmouth.

You book yourself into Cherry Pickers Anonymous - and I'll end this post with a smiley face.

: )

Hey Loudmouth

I love it how whenever you trap Poirot in the corner she jumps out of the boxing ring and runs off to the dressing room hee hee heee

Yeah, SPQR...

I'm quaking in my boots at Loudmouth's grasp of climate science.

(I might add that your ability to disappear into the changing rooms at top speed the last time we clashed was pretty impressive :)

Hi Poirot,

I'm not sure what you are on about but all I'm suggesting is that it would be nice if that article, and others along the same lines, give some details about actual increases in temperatures - increases in CO2, yes, 58 % or whatever since 1990, fine, but what has been the increase in temperature since then ? 0.1 degrees ? 0.5 degrees ? A proportionate fraction of the 0.8 degrees per century, over the past century ? What are we actually talking about ?

I keep asking dumb questions, not being a climate scientist. That's my right. if anybody wants to change my views, then they provide evidence. Or else bugger off, they are free to go and climb back into their tree.

Cheers,

Joe

:)

"I keep asking dumb questions..."

Well you keep asking the same questions....and when you are directed to answers, you appear to decline to inform yourself.

What does one say to that type of behaviour?

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch9.html

>>Well you keep asking the same questions....and when you are directed to answers, you appear to decline to inform yourself.

What does one say to that type of behaviour?<<

I think Joe sounds remarkably like a lot of the teachers I've had over the years: he just wants a nice short answer in your own words. Copying-and-pasting or linking to a website does not count as a proper answer.

I can understand his desire for a plain-english answer in 350 words or less. If he were to ask me about Newtonian mechanics would I be better off directing him to the source material:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28233/28233-h/28233-h.htm

So that he can get as full and accurate an understanding as possible - and save myself the bother of thinking of an answer - or just answering the question?

For whatever reason Joe doesn't appear inclined to read the report you linked to. I'm in the same boat: it's colossal and I can't justify the time - life's too short to be reading climate change reports when there are other things to do. If you've read and understood it all you should have no problem summarizing it for Joe :)

Cheers,

Tony