SPQR,

I've just been out to pick up my new reading glasses...and for good measure I cleaned the computer screen.

But your ramblings are still underwhelming...oh well...

Poirot,

Why do you insist I'm trying to be sarcastic, and that I really think that AGW is simple ? I'm a reasonably intelligent person, intelligent enough to realise how incredibly complicated it all must be, beyond me, and I suspect, beyond you too, with respect. All I am trying to fathom out is whether global warming and sea-level rise are actually taking place (I don't perceive it, but even so, it may well be going on) and if capitalist economic activity is responsible, or if it's all just another capitalist con-job, using all of this complexity to bullsh!t unsophisticated people like me.

More to the point, what can we do about it, and what ARE we doing about it, and in the near future, what new technologies will be developed - in that capitalist spirit of chasing whatever innovations make a buck - in order to reduce it and control it in the future, for our grandchildren ?

I suspect that capitalism, in all its genius, as Marx would have noted en passant, will find ways in the near future to conclusively combat global warming, perhaps by moving right away from non-renewable energy generation, so that it is confined to smaller and smaller sections of the economy.

Meanwhile, I have to say that in fifty years, I haven't noticed any rise at all in our local sea-level - maybe elsewhere, it is rising as fast as buggery, swamping Fiji's mountains and Pacific atolls willy-nilly, to sort of balance it all out. I guess one shouldn't judge from just one's own experiences.

Cheers,

Joe

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Loudmouth,

Your questions often seem to have a sarcastic undertone - as do your replies.

If I'm judging you too harshly, then I apologise.

When all is said and done, if you really want to understand what most climate scientists believe is happening, then you're probably making your inquiries on the wrong forum. You'd be better off checking out Skeptical Science or Real Climate or some such site.

Just wanted to mention the weird weather in the South West this year.

In June we experienced a huge "once in a decade" storm. Last month we had a typical "winter" pattern go through which gave us two days of cyclonic and near cyclonic winds.

Starting last night we've had continuous rain, lightning and thunder. I mean for the last twenty four hours, approximately every three minutes (and I'm not exaggerating) - there is a rumble of thunder. That's nearly twenty four hours of thunder - every few minutes. I can't remember experiencing such constant thunder before for such a prolonged period. There's no wind, so I'm surmising the trough is sitting over the region and not in a hurry to move on.

Anyway our area has had up to 100mm rain in a 24 hour period...all very unusual for this time of year ,flooding, once in a 100 year event.

Bloody "weather" - it's fascinating : )

Hi Poirot,

If I was in WA, I wouldn't be complaining, all that lovely rain - bring it on !

But when you think about it, when has there ever been a "typical" summer, or winter for that matter? We're a land of droughts and flooding rains, as most of us learnt in school. Here in SA, we seem to get years of droughts and then a couple of years of good weather, and then those droughts again. God sure has a warped sense of humour, at least in SA. Probably getting back at those bloody Lutherans.

Apart from that, nothing unusual to report.

My remedy for it all ? More cheap red wine ! It hasn't done me any harm so far !

Cheers, sweetie, sleep well,

Joe

:)

On the other hand, Poirot:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/14/the-real-ipcc-ar5-draft-bombshell-plus-a-poll/

Happy Christmas reading.

Cheers,

Joe